REVISED Physics 106 Course Schedule – Spring 2009
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Cycle |
Day |
Date |
Text |
Topics |
Tests |
Labs |
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1 |
2 |
Tue 1/13 |
14.1 – 14.5 |
Sound Waves |
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No Lab |
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4 |
Thu 1/15 |
14.6 – 14.8 |
Doppler Effect, Interference, and Standing Waves |
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6 |
Mon 1/19 |
14.9 – 14.13 |
Resonance, Air Columns, Beats, The Ear |
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2 |
2 |
Wed 1/21 |
14.1 – 14.13 |
Sound |
Test 1 |
Electrical Instruments |
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4 |
Fri 1/23 |
15.1 – 15.4 |
Electric Charges, Coulomb's Law, Electric Fields |
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6 |
Tue 1/27 |
15.5 – 15.9 |
Electrostatic Equilibrium, Electric Flux, and Gauss's Law |
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3 |
2 |
Thu 1/29 |
16.1 – 16.2 |
Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy |
Quiz 1 |
Resonance |
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4 |
Mon 2/2 |
16.3 – 16.8 |
Equipotential Surfaces, Capacitance, and Capacitors |
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6 |
Wed 2/4 |
16.9 – 17.2 |
Stored Energy, Dielectrics; Electric Current |
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4 |
2 |
Fri 2/6 |
17.3 – 17.8 |
Ohm's Law, Energy, and Power |
Quiz 2 |
Sound Waves |
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4 |
Tue 2/10 |
18.1 – 18.4 |
Series and Parallel Resistors; Kirchhoff's Rules |
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6 |
Thu 2/12 |
18.5 – 18.8 |
RC Circuits, Household Circuits, Neurons |
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5 |
2 |
Mon 2/16 |
15.1 – 18.8 |
Electricity and DC Circuits |
Test 2 |
DC Circuits |
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4 |
Wed 2/18 |
19.1 – 19.4 |
Magnets, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Force |
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6 |
Fri 2/20 |
19.5 – 19.10 |
Torque, Ampère's Law, Magnetic Materials |
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6 |
2 |
Tue 2/24 |
20.1 – 20.4 |
emf, Magnetic Flux, Faraday's Law, and Lenz's Law |
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Magnetic Fields |
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4 |
Thu 2/26 |
20.5 – 20.8 |
Generators, Self-Inductance, RL Circuits, Energy |
Quiz 3 |
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3/2 – 3/6 |
Spring Break |
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6 |
Mon 3/9 |
21.1 – 21.4 |
AC Circuits |
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7 |
2 |
Wed 3/11 |
21.5 – 21.7 |
Power, RLC Resonance, Transformers |
Quiz 4 |
AC Circuits |
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4 |
Fri 3/13 |
21.8 – 21.13 |
Maxwell's Predictions, EM Waves, Doppler Effect |
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6 |
Tue 3/17 |
19.1 – 21.13 |
Magnetism, AC Circuits, and EM Waves |
Test 3 |
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8 |
2 |
Thu 3/19 |
22.1 – 22.3 |
Reflection and Refraction of Light |
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No Lab |
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4 |
Mon 3/23 |
22.4 – 22.7 |
Dispersion, Huygen's Principle, Total Internal Reflection |
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6 |
Wed 3/25 |
23.1 – 23.5 |
Mirrors, Refraction |
Quiz 5 |
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9 |
2 |
Fri 3/27 |
23.6 – 24.2 |
Lenses, Young's Double-Slit Experiment |
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Lenses |
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4 |
Tue 3/31 |
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Classes Canceled Due to Snow |
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6 |
Thu 4/2 |
24.3 – 24.9 |
Thin Film Interference, Diffraction, Polarization |
Quiz 6 |
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10 |
2 |
Mon 4/6 |
25.1 – 25.7 |
Optical Instruments |
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Diffraction |
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4 |
Wed 4/8 |
22.1 – 25.7 |
Optics |
Test 4 |
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Thu 4/9 – Mon 4/13 |
Easter Recess |
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6 |
Wed 4/15 |
26.1 – 26.4,7 |
Relativity |
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11 |
2 |
Fri 4/17 |
27.1 – 27.8 |
Quantum Physics |
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Nuclear Radiation |
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4 |
Tue 4/21 |
28.1 – 28.4 |
Atomic Spectra and Bohr Model of Atom |
Quiz 7 |
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Wed 4/22 |
Scholarship and Creativity Day Activities |
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6 |
Fri 4/24 |
28.5 – 28.7 |
Periodic Table, X-rays, Lasers |
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12 |
2 |
Tue 4/28 |
26.1 – 28.7 |
Modern Physics |
Test 5 |
Assessment Exam on Web |
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4 |
Thu 4/30 |
29.1 – 29.3 |
Nuclei, Binding Energy, Radioactivity |
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6 |
Mon 5/4 |
29.4 – 29.7 |
Decay Processes, Nuclear Reactions |
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Exam Week |
Tue 5/5 |
Study Day |
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Thu 5/7 |
8:00-10:00a |
Section 03A (11:20 class period) |
Final Exam |
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Thu 5/7 |
6:00-8:00p |
Section 04A (1:00 class period) |
Final Exam |
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