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Physics 313, "University Physics III", Fall 2001

This material can be found online at URL

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys313/phys313.html

Outline for the course, class schedule, etc.

Tools and concepts that you will need to understand and use to pass this course.

Keep track of your grades with the grade scoresheet.

Scores at end of quarter

Practice problems for the exam are now available as "Problem Set 99". They concentrate on material from early in the course -- you can use this week's (and last week's) problem set to study properties of the magnetic field.

Lectures

This material is subject to change, up to the time that a lecture is actually presented in class. The readings for a lecture are shown in parantheses, in the form (Chapter:Sections).
  1. Introduction and vector review (3:1-7)
  2. Charge, Conductors/Insulators, Coulomb's Law (22:1-6)
  3. Electric Field due to a point charge (23:1-4)
  4. Electric Field due to a dipole; multipole expansion (23:5)
  5. Electric Field due to a line of charge, or a disk (23:6-7)
    Line and surface integrals
  6. Simple electrodynamics: behavior of a point charge in an electric field (23:8-9)
  7. Gauss' Law and electric flux (24:1-6)
  8. Using Gauss' Law (24:6-9)
  9. Review of Potential, Force, and Potential Energy (8:1-3, 14:6, 25:1-2)
    Potential Fill-in-the-blank game
  10. Electric Potential and its connection to Electric Field (25:2-4,9,11)
  11. Electric Potential due to a point charge(s) (25:5,6,10)
  12. Electric Potential due to a dipole, line of charge, or disk (25:7-8)
    Line and surface integrals

  13. Test 1

  14. Capacitance (26:1-4)
  15. Energy stored in a capacitor and applications (26:5-8)
  16. Current (27:1-3, 27.6)
  17. Resistance (27:4-5, parts of 28:4,6)
  18. Power (27:7-9)
  19. Circuits and Kirchoff's Rules (28:1-6)
  20. RC Circuits (28:8)

  21. Test 2

  22. Magnetic Fields (29:1-2)
  23. Magnetic Fields in Action: Aurorae (29:4-5)
  24. Magnetic Forces on Current-carrying Wires (29:7-9)
  25. How Current can create a Magnetic Field (30:1)
  26. Ampere's Law (30:2-3)
  27. The Solenoid (30:4)
  28. Magnetic Induction (31:1-3)
  29. Lenz's Law (31:4-6)
  30. How Electric Generators Work

Homework sets.

We are using the WebWork homework system,

http://spiff.rit.edu/webwork/phys313

for all problem sets. I suggest that you print out the problems onto paper, work on them at your desk, then go back to the computer to type in your answers.

Quizzes

Tests

Extra Credit Projects

  1. Measure the Resistivity of a Mystery Object Due Oct 19, at 5 PM.
  2. Make an Electromagnet Due Nov 5, at 5 PM.
  3. Make a Generator Due Nov 14 at 9 AM.

Physics fun


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