REVISED Physics 106 Course Schedule – Spring 2009

Cycle

Day

Date

Text

Topics

Tests

Labs

1

2

Tue 1/13

14.1 – 14.5

Sound Waves

 

No Lab

4

Thu 1/15

14.6 – 14.8

Doppler Effect, Interference, and Standing Waves

 

6

Mon 1/19

14.9 – 14.13

Resonance, Air Columns, Beats, The Ear

 

2

2

Wed 1/21

14.1 – 14.13

Sound

Test 1

Electrical Instruments

4

Fri 1/23

15.1 – 15.4

Electric Charges, Coulomb's Law, Electric Fields

 

6

Tue 1/27

15.5 – 15.9

Electrostatic Equilibrium, Electric Flux, and Gauss's Law

 

3

2

Thu 1/29

16.1 – 16.2

Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy

Quiz 1

Resonance

4

Mon 2/2

16.3 – 16.8

Equipotential Surfaces, Capacitance, and Capacitors

 

6

Wed 2/4

16.9 – 17.2

Stored Energy, Dielectrics; Electric Current

 

4

2

Fri 2/6

17.3 – 17.8

Ohm's Law, Energy, and Power

Quiz 2

Sound Waves

4

Tue 2/10

18.1 – 18.4

Series and Parallel Resistors; Kirchhoff's Rules

 

6

Thu 2/12

18.5 – 18.8

RC Circuits, Household Circuits, Neurons

 

5

2

Mon 2/16

15.1 – 18.8

Electricity and DC Circuits

Test 2

DC Circuits

4

Wed 2/18

19.1 – 19.4

Magnets, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Force

 

6

Fri 2/20

19.5 – 19.10

Torque, Ampère's Law, Magnetic Materials

 

6

2

Tue 2/24

20.1 – 20.4

emf, Magnetic Flux, Faraday's Law, and Lenz's Law

 

Magnetic Fields

4

Thu 2/26

20.5 – 20.8

Generators, Self-Inductance, RL Circuits, Energy

Quiz 3

3/2 – 3/6

Spring Break

6

Mon 3/9

21.1 – 21.4

AC Circuits

 

7

2

Wed 3/11

21.5 – 21.7

Power, RLC Resonance, Transformers

Quiz 4

AC Circuits

4

Fri 3/13

21.8 – 21.13

Maxwell's Predictions, EM Waves, Doppler Effect

 

6

Tue 3/17

19.1 – 21.13

Magnetism, AC Circuits, and EM Waves

Test 3

8

2

Thu 3/19

22.1 – 22.3

Reflection and Refraction of Light

 

No Lab

4

Mon 3/23

22.4 – 22.7

Dispersion, Huygen's Principle, Total Internal Reflection

 

6

Wed 3/25

23.1 – 23.5

Mirrors, Refraction

Quiz 5

9

2

Fri 3/27

23.6 – 24.2

Lenses, Young's Double-Slit Experiment

 

Lenses

4

Tue 3/31

 

Classes Canceled Due to Snow

 

6

Thu 4/2

24.3 – 24.9

Thin Film Interference, Diffraction, Polarization

Quiz 6

10

2

Mon 4/6

25.1 – 25.7

Optical Instruments

 

Diffraction

4

Wed 4/8

22.1 – 25.7

Optics

Test 4

Thu 4/9 – Mon 4/13

Easter Recess

6

Wed 4/15

26.1 – 26.4,7

Relativity

 

11

2

Fri 4/17

27.1 – 27.8

Quantum Physics

 

Nuclear Radiation

4

Tue 4/21

28.1 – 28.4

Atomic Spectra and Bohr Model of Atom

Quiz 7

Wed 4/22

Scholarship and Creativity Day Activities

6

Fri 4/24

28.5 – 28.7

Periodic Table, X-rays, Lasers

 

12

2

Tue 4/28

26.1 – 28.7

Modern Physics

Test 5

Assessment Exam on Web

4

Thu 4/30

29.1 – 29.3

Nuclei, Binding Energy, Radioactivity

 

6

Mon 5/4

29.4 – 29.7

Decay Processes, Nuclear Reactions

 

Exam Week

Tue 5/5

Study Day

Thu 5/7

8:00-10:00a

Section 03A (11:20 class period)

Final Exam

Thu 5/7

6:00-8:00p

Section 04A (1:00 class period)

Final Exam