Lecture Notes
06/28/2010: Course Logistics, Sections 15.1-15.2 (.pdf) -- Electric charges; insulators and conductors
06/29/2010: Sections 15.3-15.5 (.pdf) -- Coulomb's Law, electrostatic force; Electric fields and field lines
06/30/2010: Sections 15.6-15.9 (.pdf) --
Conductors; Millikan oil-drop experiment; van de Graaf generators; Electric flux; Gauss's law --
(I added a slide with links to youtube videos of van de Graaf generators and Faraday cages in action)
07/01/2010: Sections 15.9-16.1 (.pdf) Electric flux; Gauss's law; Potential difference, electric potential
07/06/2010: Sections 16.1-16.5 (.pdf) -- Potential difference, electric potential; V and PE due to point charges; Equipotentials
07/07/2010 & 07/08/2010: Sections 16.6-16.10 (.pdf) -- Capacitance, Capacitors, Capacitors in series and in parallel; energy storage; dielectrics
07/12/2010: Sections 17.1-17.6 (.pdf) -- Current, drift speed; Ohm's Law, Resistance and resistivity; Temperature variation of resistance and resistivity
07/13/2010: Sections 17.6-18.2 (.pdf) -- Temperature variation of resistance and resistivity; Superconductors; Electric energy and power; EMF; Resistors in series
07/14/2010: Sections 18.3-18.4 (.pdf) -- Resistors in parallel; Kirchoff's Loop and Junction rules for complex circuits
07/15/2010: Section 18.5 (.pdf) -- RC circuits, charging/discharging capacitors --
Note on 7/19: corrected slides re: discharging the capacitor
07/19/2010: Sections 18.5-19.1 (.pdf) -- RC circuits, charging/discharging capacitors; Household circuits; electrical safety; Magnets and magnetism --
Note on 7/19: corrected slides re: discharging the capacitor -- current will exponentially decay along with charge.
Also: Last slide = links to youtube videos of ferromagnetic fluids in action
07/20/2010: Sections 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.6 (.pdf) --
Magnets; Planetary magnetic fields; magnetic force on a moving charge;
motion of a charged particle in a B-field --
I thought 19.6 (motion of a charged particle in a B-field) and 19.3 (magnetic force on a moving charge) should be discussed together, so for this lecture, I skipped 19.4 and 19.5; those sections will be discussed on 07/21.
07/21/2010: Sections 19.4, 19.5, 19.7 (.pdf) -- Magnetic force on current-carrying conductor; torque on a current loop, electric motors; Ampere's Law, B-field of a long, straight wire
07/22/2010: Sections 19.8-19.10 (.pdf) -- Magn. force between two parallel wires; Current loops, solenoids, toroids; magnetic domains
07/26/2010: Sections 20.1-20.2 (.pdf) -- Faraday's Experiments, Magnetic Flux, Faraday's Law, intro to Lenz's Law
07/27/2010: Sections 20.3-20.7 (.pdf) -- More on Lenz's Law; Eddy Currents; Motional EMF; Generators; Self-Inductance; Inductors; RL circuits
07/28/2010: Sections 20.7, 20.8, 21.1, 21.7-21.11 (.pdf) -- More on RL circuits; Energy stored in a magnetic field; AC voltages and currents; AC transformers; Maxwell's equations; Production and properties of electromagnetic waves
07/29/2010: Sections 21.8-21.13 (.pdf) -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum; Wavelength and frequency of EM radiation; Intensity of EM radiation (energy transport); The Doppler Effect