Unit 1: Electricity and Magnetism

1 Physics 212 Classical and Modern PhysicsSpring 2022 Lecture Schedule and Reading AssignmentsReading assignments by default refer to your textEssential University Physics, by example, refers to Section in Wolfson. When Section 1 is assigned, start at thebeginning of the chapter. Supplementary Reading refers to the Physics 212 SupplementaryReadingbook. Ex refers to Example problems given in sections of the text and CEx refersto Conceptual Example problems in sections of the text. Eq refers to Equations, and Fig refers to 1: Electricity and Magnetism January 18, TuesdayLecture 1: Electric Charges, Forces, and FieldsRead:Chapter 20, through page 364 ( , up until Continuous ChargeDistributions p. 365)Study:Eqs , ,b, ; Exs , , and January 20, ThursdayLecture 2: Electric Fields and Electric , :Eq.

2 ; Ex ; Eqs. , and : Dipoles in Electric Fields in Section January 25, TuesdayLecture 3: Gauss s Law and the Electric , through Finding Potential DifferencesUsing Superposition (p. 406)Study: Problem Solving Strategy on p. 382, Exs. , , , and ; Eqs ,b, , ; Exs. , January 27, ThursdayLecture 4: Electric Current and Magnetic , , :Eqs. , ; Ex ; Eqs. , ; Ex , CEx : The Hall Effect discussion in Sec. February 1, TuesdayLecture 5: Motion in Magnetic Fields and the B- :Eq , , Exs , February 3, ThursdayLecture 6: Ampere s :Eq ; Exs. , , ; Fig February 8, TuesdayLecture 7: E&M Summary and ApplicationsNo new reading. February 10, ThursdayTEST 1 Unit 2: Induction, Waves, and Light February 15, TuesdayLecture 8: Faraday s Law of , :Eqs.

3 , ; Exs , , :Sections and : Diamagnetism in Section (p. 519). February 17, ThursdayLecture 9: Traveling Waves, Maxwell s Equations up to The Wave Equation (p. 254), , , (through p. 569), :Eqs. ; Figs. , , the rest of February 22, TuesdayLecture 10: Phasors and Standing ; Supplementary Reading Ch :Ex ; Supp. Fig. :Eq (it s not wrong just too specialized to be useful) February 24, ThursdayLecture 11: , ; Supplementary Reading Ch :Exs ; Supp. Exs 1-3, 1-4, 1-5 March 1, TuesdayLecture 12: Diffraction and Diffraction , , ; Supplementary Reading Ch , , , :Fig , , ; Supp. Exs. 1-6, 1-7, 1-8 :Eq March 3, ThursdayLecture 13: Beyond Classical Physics: Photons andWave-Particle DualityRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 2 March 8, TuesdayLecture 14: Induction, Waves and Photons: Summary andApplicationsNo new reading.

4 March 10, ThursdayTEST 2 March 15, TuesdaySPRING BREAK March 17, ThursdaySPRING BREAKUnit 3: Quantum Mechanics March 22, TuesdayLecture 15: Waves, Probability and UncertaintyRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 3 March 24, ThursdayLecture 16: Quantized energies and spectraRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 4 March 29, TuesdayLecture 17: Quantum States and SpinRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 5 March 31, ThursdayLecture 18: Quantum Statistics and ApplicationsRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 6 April 5, TuesdayLecture 19: Three-Dimensional Wavefunction andSemiconductorsRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 7 Skim:Section April 7, ThursdayLecture 20: Quantum EntanglementRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 8 April 12, TuesdayLecture 21: Quantum Mechanics SummaryNo new reading. April 14, ThursdayTEST 3 Unit 4: Particle Physics and Cosmology April 19, TuesdayLecture 22: Elementary Particles and Conservation LawsRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 9 April 21, ThursdayLecture 23: Fundamental Forces and InteractionsRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 10 April 26, TuesdayLecture 24: Diagrams, Decays, and LifetimesRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 11 April 28, ThursdayLecture 25: CosmologyRead:Supplementary Reading Ch 12 May 3, TuesdayLecture 26: TBAFINAL EXAM