Physics 2135 Syllabus
Fall 2016
Prof. Allan Pringle
Office: 122 Physics Phone: 341-4031 email: pringle@mst.edu
Course Web Site: http://physics.mst.edu/classes/class_24.html
Textbook: University Physics with Modern Physics Vol. 2, 14th Edition, Young and Freedman
Lecture
1. Monday, August 22
read 21: 1-4
Electric Charge, Coulomb’s
Law, Electric Field, Motion of
a Charge in Electric Field
Recitation/Exam
1. Tuesday, August 23
21: 6, 14, 72, 77, Special Homework #1
2. Wednesday, August 24
read 21: 5
Electric Field of a Charge
Distribution
3. Monday, August 29
read 21: 6-7; 22: 1-3
Electric Field Lines, Electric
Dipoles, Electric Flux, Gauss’
Law
2. Thursday, August 25
21: 51, 79ab, 85, 88, 90 (reminder: all solutions
must start with OSE’s)
4. Wednesday, August 31
read 22: 4-5
Gauss’ Law Calculations,
Conductors and Electric Fields
Monday, September 5
Labor Day (no lecture)
4. Thursday, September 1
22: 33, 40, 45, 48, Special Homework #3
(reminder: all solutions must start with OSE’s)
5. Wednesday, September 7
read 23: 1-2
Electric Potential, Electric
Potential Energy
6. Monday, September 12
read 23: 3-5
Electric Potentials of Charge
Distributions, Equipotentials,
Potential Gradient
3. Tuesday, August 30
21: 53; 22: 10, 22, 47, Special Homework #2
(reminder: all solutions must start with OSE’s)
5. Tuesday, September 6
21: 71, 82ab; 22: 32, 54 (reminder: all solutions
must start with OSE’s)
Lab
No Labs
Odd
O1: Coulomb’s
Law
No labs due to
Labor Day
holiday.
6. Thursday, September 8
23: 11, 19, 53, 58, 74
7. Tuesday, September 13
23: 32 (you may begin with Ecylinder = λ/ 2πε0r),
34, 68, 78abc Special Homework #4 (reminder: all
solutions must start with OSE’s)
7. Wednesday, September 14
read 24: 1-2
Capacitance, Capacitors in
Series and Parallel
8. Monday, September 19
Exam 1 Review
8. Thursday, September 15
24: 5, 12 (you must derive the equation for C/L for
a cylindrical capacitor), 17, 47, 56 (reminder: all
solutions must start with OSE’s)
9. Tuesday, September 20
Test Preparation Homework #1
Exam 1: 5:00 pm, chapters 21-24.2
9. Wednesday, September 21
read 24: 3-4
Energy Stored in Capacitors
and Electric Fields, Dielectrics
10. Thursday, September 22
24: 34, 41, 50, Special Homework #5
Even
E1: Electrical
Instruments
Odd
O2: Fields and
Potentials
Physics 2135, Fall 2016 Reading and Homework Assignments. Last revised: 9:33 am, August 16.
Physics 2135, Fall 2016, Reading and Homework Assignments, page 2.
Lecture
10. Monday, September 26
read 25: 1-3
Electric Current, Current
Density, Resistance
Recitation/Exam
11. Tuesday, September 27
25: 5, 10, 21, 24, 55
11. Wednesday, September 29
read 25: 4-5
EMF, Electric Power
12. Monday, October 3
read 26: 1-2
Resistors in Series and
Parallel, Kirchoff’s Rules
Last drop day.
12. Thursday, September 29
25: 30, 37, 39, 44, 63
13. Wednesday, October 5
read 26: 3-4
Electrical Instruments, RC
Circuits
14. Monday, October 10
read 27: 1-5
Magnetic Fields and Flux,
Motion of Charged Particle in
Magnetic Field, Gauss’ Law
for Magnetism
14. Thursday, October 6
26: 35, 43, 51, 73, Special Homework #6
(reminder: all solutions must start with OSE’s)
15. Wednesday, October 12
read 27: 5-7
Magnetic Forces on Currents,
Magnetic Torque
16. Monday, October 17
Exam 2 Review
16. Thursday, October 13
27: 34, 35 (you may express your answer in unit
vector notation), 42, 46, 62 (reminder: all solutions
must start with OSE’s)
17. Tuesday, October 18
Odd
Test Preparation Homework #2
O4: Series RC
Circuits
Exam 2: 5:00 pm, chapters 24.3-27
17. Wednesday, October 19
read 28: 1-4
Magnetic Field of a Current,
Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic
Field of Wires, Magnetic
Force between Conductors
18. Thursday, October 20
28: 8, 13, 25, 29 (reminder: all solutions must start
with OSE’s)
13. Tuesday, October 4
26: 5, 16, 19, 21, 61
15. Tuesday, October 11
27: 9, 14, 20, 26, 28 (reminder: all solutions must
start with OSE’s)
2
Lab
Even
E2: Capacitors
Odd
O3: ResistanceMaterials,
Geometry
Even
E3: Ohm’s
Law, Internal
Resistance
Physics 2135, Fall 2016, Reading and Homework Assignments, page 3.
Lecture
18. Monday, October 24
read 28: 5-7
Magnetic Field of Current
Loop, Ampere’s Law,
Solenoids, Toroids
Recitation/Exam
19. Tuesday, October 25
28: 40, 44, 46, 51, Special Homework #7
(reminder: all solutions must start with OSE’s)
19. Wednesday, October 26
read 29: 1-4
Faraday’s Law, Induction,
Lenz’s Law, Generators,
Motional emf
20. Monday, October 31
read 29: 5-7
Induced Electric Field, Eddy
Currents, Displacement
Current
20. Thursday, October 27
29: 9, 25, 26, 52, Special Homework #8 (reminder:
all solutions must start with OSE’s)
21. Wednesday, November 2
read 32: 1-4
Electromagnetic Waves
22. Monday, November 7
read 33: 1-4
Light: Reflection, Refraction,
and Dispersion
22. Thursday, November 3
32: 13, 19, 26ab, 38, 46 (the mass of the sun is
1.99x1030 kg)
23. Tuesday, November 8
33: 12, 36, 45, 47, Special Homework #9
23. Wednesday, November 9
read 34: 1-2
Concave and Convex Mirrors
24. Monday, November 14
Exam 3 Review
24. Thursday, November 10
34: 2, 7, 9 (draw a ray diagram), 67, 71
Last withdraw day is Friday, Nov. 11.
25. Tuesday, November 15
Test Preparation Homework #3
Exam 3: 5:00 pm, chapters 28-29, 32
25. Wednesday, November 16
read 34: 3-8
Lenses, Optical Instruments
26. Thursday, November 17
34: 40, 75, 81, Special Homework #10, Special
Homework #11
21. Tuesday, November 1
29: 20, 35, 36, 50, 65 (some of the problems are a
review of the previous lecture) (reminder: all
solutions must start with OSE’s)
3
Lab
Even
E4: Current
Balance
Odd
O5: Generator
Even
E5: Snell’s Law
Odd
O6: Lenses
Physics 2135, Fall 2016, Reading and Homework Assignments, page 4.
Lecture
Monday, November 21
Thanksgiving
Recitation/Exam
Tuesday, November 22
Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 23
Thanksgiving
26. Monday, November 28
read 35: 1-3
Double Slit Interference
Thursday, November 24
Thanksgiving
27. Tuesday, November 29
35: 5, 7, 9, 12, 17
27. Wednesday, November 30
read 35: 4
Thin Film Interference
28. Monday, December 5
read 36: 1-5
Diffraction
28. Thursday, December 1
35: 26, 27, 31, 32, 47
29. Wednesday, Dec. 7
Final Exam Review
30. Thursday, December 8
Final Exam Preparation Homework
Thursday, December 15
29. Tuesday, December 6
36: 4, 15, 33, 51, 59
End-Material Test and Comprehensive
Final Exam, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
4
Lab
No Labs
Even
E6: Dispersion
No Labs
(No makeup
labs will be
given!)
No Labs