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Week-by-week syllabus of Physics 201B, Physics: Concepts and Connections, Spring 1999

TEST 6 material

Weekly Schedule

February 2... Complete Electricity and Magnetism

Producing Electromagnetic Waves

Circuits... Capacitors, Batteries, Bulbs...

A few words about the tesla coil...

Open up Test 5 on Electricity and Magnetism

 

February 9... Waves and Light... Chapter 8, 9

An introduction to waves... wavelength, frequency, period of oscillation, velocity...

Oscillating Circuits... LC circuit and k,m mass on spring

Simple Harmonic Oscillators

Waves... a series of oscillators... what vibrates... how does it vibrate... terms associated with waves: crests and troughs, wavelength, frequency, period, velocity.... properties of medium which determine velocity...

Types of waves... longitudinal (sound), transverse (ropes and electromagmetic), circular (water)

Light as a "typical" wave... the wave particle duality... waves vs photons... frequencies and wavelengths of visible light.... velocity of waves

Exploratories: Full length mirrors and images...

Assignment... Chapter 8 .. RQ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11... E 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 15... P 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...

 

February 16... Waves and Light... Chapter 8, 9

Wave interactions with matter... reflection, refraction, interference...

Reflection of waves (rays)... law of reflection... can you dribble a basketball?

Mirrors.. Images of objects... following the rays... plane mirrors... how big is "full length" mirror... curved mirrors... drawing rays which obey the law of reflection... why "objects may be closer than they appear" in the rearview mirror.

Multiple mirrors... images become objects...make new images... the double mirror in your bathroom...

Curved mirrors... why cars are closer than they appear to be

 

Refraction of waves... law of refraction... the lifeguard test...

Understanding refraction... velocity and wavelength changes...

Separating colors... the prism...

Total Internal reflection... light pipes and telephone, medicine, etc.

Reflection and refraction in a mirror...

Lenses... Images of objects... taking pictures...

Eyepieces on instruments... creating the final image.

 

Exploratories: Student Marching Column AND/OR Images, Images, Images

Assignment: RQ 6, 7, 8 ... HP 2, 3... E 6, 7, 8, 9...

 

February 23... Waves and Light... Chapter 8, 9

Interference of waves... the law of addition of waves...

Standing Waves... on String... on Bridge...

Water waves... light waves... two slits or more...

Taking pictures using interference... holograms...

 

Exploratories: Diffraction gratings

 

 

March 2... Einstein's Theory of Relativity... Chapter 10, 11

Open Test 6