| Weeks | Topics |
| 1 |
Properties of Electric Charges, Insulators and Conductors, Coulomb’s Law, The Electric Field, Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution, Electric Field Lines, Motion of Charged Particles in a Uniform Electric Field,Laboratory study
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| 2 |
Electric Flux, Gauss’ Law, Application of Gauss’ Law to Charged Insulators
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| 3 |
Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium, Potential Difference and Electric Potential, Potential Differences in a Uniform Electric Field, Electric Potential Energy of Point Charges, Laboratory study
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| 4 |
Electric Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distributions, Obtaining the Electric Field from the Electric Potential, The Electric Potential of a Charged Conductor, Laboratory study
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| 5 |
Definition of Capacitance, Calculation of Capacitance, Combinations of Capacitors, Energy Stored in a Charged Capacitor, Capacitors with Dielectrics, Laboratory study
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| 6 |
Electric Current, Resistance and Ohm’s Law, Laboratory study
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| 7 |
A Model for Electrical Conduction, Resistor and Temperature, Electrical Energy and Power, Electromotive Force, Resistors in Series and Parallel, Laboratory study
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| 8 |
Kirchhoff’s Rules, RC Circuits, Laboratory study
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| 9 |
Midterm Exam
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| 10 |
Magnetic Field, Magnetic Force on a Current-carrying Conductor, Torque on a Current Loop in a Uniform Magnetic Field, Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field, Laboratory study
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| 11 |
The Biot-Savart Law, The Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Conductors
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| 12 |
Ampere’s Law, The Magnetic Field of a Solenoid, Magnetic Flux, Gauss’ Law in Magnetism, Displacement Current and the Generalized Ampere’s Law, Laboratory study
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| 13 |
Faraday’s Law of Induction, Motional emf, Lenz’s Rule, Induced emf and Electric Fields, Laboratory study
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| 14 |
Maxwell’s Equations, Laboratory study
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