Physics 6 Syllabus 2007

Date
Topic
Demo

January 24
Introduction; Electric charge Demos: static electricity: 5A10.10, 5A20.10, 5A.40.10, 5A.40.22, 5A.50.30, 5B10.10

January 26
Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields Demos: 5A10.35

January 29
Electric field calculations
Demos: 5B10.40

January 31
Electric field lines and Dipoles
Demo: 5C20.33

Feb. 2
Introduction to Gauss' Law

Feb. 5
Calculations with Gauss' Law

Feb. 7
Gauss' Law and Conductors
Demo: 5B20.15
Introduction to Electric Potential

Feb. 9
Calculating Electric Potential
Demo: 5B20.35

Feb. 12
More on potential calculations

Feb. 14
Capacitors Demos: 5C10.10, 5C30.20

Feb. 16
more on capacitors Circuit concepts Demos: 5C10.20, caps in series and parallel

Feb. 19
NO CLASS, Washington's Birthday

Wed. Feb. 21
emf and energy in electric circuits
DemoS: 5F10.20, resistivity with temperature
resistor ammeter voltmeter

Fri. Feb. 23
DC circuits
Demo: 5F20.49, 5F20.50

Mon. Feb. 26
resistance-capacitance circuits Demos: 5F30.60

Feb. 28
5H30.10 CRT and Magnet
5H40.30 Jumping wire
5H15.10 Magnetic Field around a wire
5H40.10 Parallel Current wires

March 2
Exam I:
8:30 AM START

March 5
nakamura crt. show electric plates with 2nd camera.

March 7
Sources of magnetic field
Jumping wire
torque on a loop

March 9
current wire and compass, reversing switch

March 12
Electromagnetic induction
Demos:
5K10.20, coil magnet galvo
5K10.30, coil in coil, ps, switch

wed March 14
eddy current pendulum
nib in tube

fri March 16
Jumping Ring
RL lamp
meet at 2:00, resonance

March 19
model for resonance; big L, big C, mass and spring.

March 21
Series LC resonance with sine wave, no resistor, high quality factor.
Ringing in a Tank
Jacobs Ladder
Maxwell's equations

March 23
displacement current model, one capacitor circuit
Maxwell’s equations II

3/24-4/1
SPRING BREAK NO CLASS

April 2
Electromagnetic waves
Demo: 5N10.60 RF xmtr rcvr, radio
Tesla coil 5N20.40
Laptop w simulation of propagating E&B light wave.
Transparency of E&M spectrum (Young and Freedman 32.20 )

April 4
Exam review
no demo

April 6
Exam II: 8:30 AM start, Chapters 27-32

April 9
6A10.10 Plane mirror
6A42.10 Refraction Block
prism
6A44.11 Triangle
6A44.20 Refraction Tank
6A44.40 Light pipes
6A44.45 Laser Waterfall

April 11
Mirrors Demos: 6A20.10, 6A20.30, 6A20.35

April 13
Thin Lenses; the eye
Demos: 6A60.10, magnifier, eye

April 16
NO CLASS

April 18
3B50.10 Ripple Tank SSI
3B50.30 Ripple Tank DSI
6D10.10 SSD, DSI, slits
6D20.10 Grating

April 20
6C10.10 SSD, DSI, Grating
6C20.10 Poisson's spot

April 23
7A10.00 Photoelectric effect 1P39
7A10.10 Zinc Plate and Carbon arc

Wed April 25
Lamp, variac, prism 7B10.10
Sun Bulb
H2, He Line emission
Na absorption emission

Fri April 27
7A55.20 SPI
electron diff
pinhole diff

April 30
3B22.10 vibrating string

May 2
Review