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| The reading assignments should be completed before coming to class. The 'video' for the honors lecture is actually sound synchronized with still powerpoint slides. You need quicktime in order to play them. They look fine blown up to full screen, and are 15-20 MB each. |
| Lecture 1 | Chap 20.5, 22.1-22.3 |
Waves & Interference |
Tues. 9/4 |
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| Lecture 2 | Chap 22.4-22.6 |
Interference & Diffraction |
Thurs. 9/6 |
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| Lecture 3 | Chap 23.1-23.3 |
Reflection & Refraction |
Tues. 9/11 |
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| Lecture 4 | Chap 23.4-23.6 |
Image Formation |
Thurs. 9/13 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. K. Forest |
Biological Diffraction |
Fri. 9/14 |
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| Lecture 5 | Chap 25.1-25.4 |
Charges, conductors & insulators |
Tue. 9/18 |
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| Lecture 6 | Chap 25.5-26.2 |
Electric Fields |
Thu. 9/20 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. M. Rzch | Color Vision |
Fri. 9/21 |
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| Lecture 7 | Chap 26.3-26.7 |
Electric Fields & Charge Motion |
Tues. 9/25 |
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| Lecture 8 | Chap 27.1-27.5 |
Electric Flux & Gauss' law |
Thurs. 9/27 |
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| Honors Lect | Dr. J. Meisel |
Biological Electric Fields |
Fri. 9/28 |
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| Lecture 9 | Chap 22-27 |
Review for Exam 1 |
Tues. 10/2 |
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| Lecture 10 | Chap 29.1-29.7 |
Electric Potential |
Thurs. 10/4 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. R. Moss | Action Potentials in Neurons |
Fri. 10/5 |
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| Lecture 11 | Chap 30.1-30.7 |
Potential and E-Field |
Tues. 10/9 |
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| Lecture 12 | Chap 31.1-31.7 |
Resistors and DC Circuits |
Thurs. 10/11 |
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| Honors Lec | Prof. R. Wakai |
Biomagnetism |
Fri. 10/12 |
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| Lecture 13 | Chaps 31.8-31.10 |
DC Circuits and RC Circuits |
Tues. 10/16 |
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| Lecture 14 | Chap 32.1-32.3 |
Magnetic Fields and Force |
Thurs. 10/18 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. |
Fri. 10/19 |
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| Lecture 15 | Chap 32.4-32.9 |
Sources of Magnetic Fields |
Tues. 10/23 |
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| Lecture 16 | Chap 33.1-33.5 |
Faraday's law & Induction |
Thurs. 10/25 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. P. Gilbert | Microscopy of Life |
Fri. 10/26 |
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| Lecture 17 | Chap. 29-33 |
Review for Exam 2 |
Tue. 10/30 |
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| Lecture 18 | Chap 33.6-34.1-34.3 |
EM Waves |
Thur. 11/1 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. R. Blick |
Biochips |
Fri. 11/2 |
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| Lecture 19 | Chap 34.4-34.6 |
More on EM Waves |
Tue. 11/6 |
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| Lecture 20 | Chap 34.6-7, 38.6 |
Waves&Polarization |
Thur. 11/8 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. |
Fri. 11/9 |
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| Lecture 21 | Chap 38.1-38.4 |
Light Quantization |
Tue. 11/13 |
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| Lecture 22 | Chap 38.4-38.7, 37.8 |
Matter waves&Bohr Atom |
Thu. 11/15 |
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| Honors Lect | Dr. C. Woodward |
Photosynthesis |
Fri. 11/16 |
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| Lecture 23 | Chap. 39 |
Wave functions & uncertainty |
Tue. 11/20 |
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| Lecture 24 | Chap. 33-39 |
Review for Exam 3 |
Tue. 11/27 |
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| Lecture 25 | Chap. 41.1-41.3 |
Atomic Physics |
Thu. 11/29 |
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| Lecture | Prof. |
Fri. 11/30 |
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| Lecture 26 | Chap. 41.4-41.8 |
Atomic Physics & Lasers |
Tue. 12/4 |
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| Lecture 27 | Chap 42.1-42.3 |
Nuclear Structure |
Tue. 12/6 |
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| Honors Lect | Prof. T. Montaruli | Neutrino Telescopes & Ice Cube |
Powerpoint |
Fri. 12/7 |
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| Lecture 28 | Chap 42.5-42.7 |
Radioactive Decay |
Tue. 12/11 |
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| Lecture 29 | Chap. |
fission/fusion |
Thu. 12/13 |
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