PHYSICS 230: general physics with calculus ii, spring 2009

Tim Gfroerer, Davidson College

 

Assignments

 

  • Read the designated chapter and study the designated workbook illustrations (WI's) and explorations (WE's) before class discussion on the dates indicated.

  • W assignments are from the Physlet Physics Workbook.  Only WP's are collected for grading.

  • Pre-class Exercises are due 1 hour before class time on the dates indicated.

  • Hand in homework at the beginning of class on the dates indicated.

 

** This is a tentative schedule - please refresh for up-to-date listing! **

 

Date

Reading

 Exercises, Homework, and Reviews

Lab
1/12

1/14

1/16

  

23

 

  

Pre-class Exercise #1

WE22.4, WE23.1,  Pre-class Exercise #2

  Electrostatics
1/19

1/21

1/23

 

24

 

NO CLASS (MLK Day)

WE24.1, WE24.2

23: Q's 13, 19, 20.  P's: 8, 9, 28a, 35.  WP's: 22.5, 22.8, 23.4.

  NO LAB
1/26

1/28

1/30

25

 

26

  WI25.1, WI25.4, Pre-class Exercise #3

24: Q's 1, 9, 14.  P's: 5, 27, 51.  Physlets: 1, 2.

 

 Electric Fields and Potentials
2/2

2/4

2/6

 27

28

 

Pre-class Exercise #4

Pre-class Exercise #5

25: Q: 5.  P's: 27, 32, 38.  26: Q: 6.  P's: 6 (Hint: each internal plate will have sheets of charge on both sides), 19, 32.  Physlets: 1, 2.

 Ohm's Law
2/9

2/11

2/13

 29

 

 

Pre-class Exercise #6

27: Q: 5.  P's: 3, 16, 20.  28: Q's: 8, 11.  P's: 8, 22, 32.

Mini-lab during classtime: please meet in lab!

 DC Circuits
2/16

2/18

2/20

 

30

31

 Review #1 (Chapters 23 - 28)

Pre-class Exercise #7.  Anonymous Feedback

 Pre-class Exercise #8

 Magnetic Fields and Forces
2/23

2/25

2/27

32

 

33

  

29: P's: 8, 35, 44(a-c only).  30: P's: 5, 23, 26.  WP: 27.7.  Physlets: 1, 2, 3.

Pre-class Exercise #9

 Oscilloscopes and Multimeters
3/2

3/4

3/6

  

 

 

 

Spring Break

 

 NO LAB
3/9

3/11

3/13

 34

 

35

 WE31.5 and WE31.6

31: Q: 12.  P's: 10, 29, 39, 43.  32: Q's: 8, 18.  P's: 24, 37.  Physlet: 1.

  

 AC Circuits
3/16

3/18

3/20

 36

 

 

 WE33.2-33.4.  Pre-class Exercise #10.

33: Q: 4.  P's: 22, 26, 43.  34: P's: 9, 12, 16, 63.  WP's: 31.10, 32.3.

Pre-class Exercise #13.

 Lenses and Mirrors
3/23

3/25

3/27

 37

 

38

Pre-class Exercise #11.

35: Q: 6.  P's: 23, 30(a only), 37.  36: Q's: 17, 22.  P's: 12, 16, 36, 48.  Physlets: 1, 3.

Pre-class Exercise #12

 Interference and Diffraction
3/30

4/1

4/3

 

39

 

Review #2 (Chapters 29 - 36)

Pre-class Exercise #14

37: Q: 8.  P's: 11, 14, 21, 31.  38: Q's: 6, 16.  P's: 15, 40, 47.

 NO LAB
4/6

4/8

4/10

 

 

40

 

 

Pre-class Exercise #15

 Relativity /

Alternate E&M Test
4/13

4/15

4/17

 

41

 

 Easter

 

39: Q's: 5, 7, 15.  P's: 1, 9, 14, 36, 45.  Physlets: 1.

 NO LAB
4/20

4/22

4/24

 42

44

 

  

  Pre-class Exercise #16

40: Q's: 7, 12.   P's: 8, 13(see Appendix B.5), 52, 56.  41: Q's: 6, 7.  P's: 12, 14, 20.

   Atomic Spectra
4/27

4/29

5/1

 45

 

 

  

42: Q's: 2, 7.  P's: 7, 15 (in parts b and c, try Dp ~ twice the minimum possible value), 17, 19

Review #3 (Chapters 37 - 42)

Nuclear Radiation
5/4

5/6

 46.11

 

 (also see Section 17.4 and p.1129)

Pre-class Exercise #17.  (Practice: 44: Q's: 3, 13, 16.  P's: 12, 26, 36, 41.  45: P's: 9, 16, 18.)

  

 

 

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