PHYSICS 230: general physics with calculus ii, spring 2009
Tim Gfroerer, Davidson College
Announcements and Class Demonstrations
*NOTE: Attendance at all physics seminars is strongly encouraged.
| Date | Announcement or Demonstration |
| 1/12 | Lab starts TODAY! |
| 1/12 | Workbook Illustration 22.4: Static Cling |
| 1/14 | Workbook Exploration 22.4: Dipole Symmetry |
| 1/16 | Physics Department Research Open House on Thursday, 1/22 @ 4pm in the Dana basement with free pizza. |
| 1/21 | Active Figure 23.22 |
| 1/23 | Active Figure 24.4. Workbook Illustration 24.1: Flux and Gaussian Surfaces |
| 1/26 | Workbook Illustration 25.2: Work and Equipotentials |
| 1/30 | Workbook Illustrations 26.1: The Capacitor and 26.4: Series and Parallel Capacitors |
| 2/2 | Workbook Illustration 26.3: Dielectrics and Active Figure 27.9 |
| 2/2 |
Seminar on Thursday 2/5 at 4:00: Beate Schmittmann (Physics Department, Virginia Tech) will speak on Traffic, Genes, and Stocks: New Questions in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics |
| 2/4 |
Active Figure 27.3 |
| 2/6 | |
| 2/6 |
Download Review #1 from last year. Please do not print the solutions, but feel free to view them here. |
| 2/6 |
Review Session on Monday (2/9) night at 7 pm in Dana 146. |
| 2/11 |
Major Decisions: Physics will be held Thursday, 2/19 from 4-5pm in Dana 146 |
| 2/13 |
Torque on a current loop: Active Figure 29.21 and Electric motor applet |
| 2/23 | |
| 2/25 | |
| 2/27 | |
| 3/9 |
Workbook Illustrations 31.6 and 31.7: Phasors |
| 3/9 |
Seminar on Thursday 3/12 at 4pm: Brian Utter (Physics Department, James Madison University) will speak on Jamming and Avalanching in Granular Materials |
| 3/11 |
Link to Physlet and Phet demonstrations of electromagnetic field generation |
| 3/11 |
Propagating electromagnetic wave Applet |
| 3/13 | |
| 3/16 |
Link to Optics Physlet |
| 3/20 | |
| 3/23 |
Active Figures 38.4 and 38.7 |
| 3/25 | |
| 3/25 |
Download Review #2 from last year. Please do not print the solutions, but feel free to view them here. |
| 3/25 |
Review Session on Sunday (3/29) night at 6pm in Dana 146 |
| 3/27 |
Thin film applet. |
| 3/27 |
Active Figure 38.13 |
| 4/1 |
Polarization demos: Physlet, Physics 2000 polarizers and molecular view. |
| 4/1 |
Active Figure 39.4. Einstein quote. |
| 4/3 |
Simultaneity physlet. Alternate test on concepts in electricity and magnetism will be given next week during lab. |
| 4/6 |
Active Figure 39.6. Equivalence of electricity and magnetism |
| 4/10 |
Active Figures 40.3 and 40.7. |
| 4/15 |
Photoelectric effect simulation. Quantum wave interference simulation. |
| 4/15 |
Special Seminar on Monday 4/20 @ 7:30pm: Gerald Garvey (Los Alamos National Lab) will speak on Neutrinos: Ghostly Shapechangers |
| 4/17 | |
| 4/20 |
Active Figure 41.4 |
| 4/22 | |
| 4/24 |
Physics 2000: Matter waves. Hydrogen atom simulation. Physlet Hydrogen atom |
| 4/24 | |
| 4/24 |
Download Review #3 from last year. Please do not print the solutions, but feel free to view them here. |
| 4/27 |
The Physics Picnic at the Christian Farm will be on Thursday, 4/30 @ 5:00. Please sign up! |
| 4/27 |
Physics 2000 applet: radioactive decay. |
| 4/29 |
Please remember to bring an exam envelope to class by Wednesday, 5/6. |
| 4/29 |
Review Session on Thursday (4/30) at 7pm in Dana 153. |
| 5/4 |
Evidence for the Big Bang: Hubble Expansion, Microwave Background, and Nucleosynthesis |
| 5/4 |
Additional Topics covered and equations provided on the Final Exam. |
| 5/6 |
If you are thinking about taking more physics, your intro textbook could be a valuable future resource - please consider keeping it! |
