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PHY 142: Electricity & Magnetism (Honors)
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2009

November

September | October | November | December

This course schedule is approximate. The exam dates are fixed. Exam subject matter will change as appropriate for the material covered. Links to daily lecture notes are given below.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3

lecture 18

cyclotron motion, motion in crossed E and B fields, electromagnetic induction, motional emf

Read 7.1-7.3

4 5

in-class exam 2

6 7
8 9 10

lecture 19

work done in motional emf, examples of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's law, electric generators

Read 7.3-7.6

11 12

lecture 20

Fraday's law in differential form, mutual and self inductance, circuits with inductors

Read 7.5-7.9

13

HW 8 due

14
15 16 17

lecture 21

Energy stored in an inductor, energy stored in the magnetic field, transformers, series LRC circuit and the damped harmonic oscillator, quality factor

Read 7.10, 8.1-8.3

18

S/F deadline

last date to withdraw from courses

19

lecture 22

Driven ac circuits: RL, RC, and LRC circuits, resonance

Read 8.2-8.3

20

HW 9 due

21
22 23 24

lecture 23

Complex representation for ac currents and voltages, impedence and admittance, power and energy in ac circuits

Read 8.3-8.5

25

Thanksgiving Break (begins at noon)

26

Thanksgiving Break

27

Thanksgiving Break

28

Thanksgiving Break

29

Thanksgiving Break

30