Reading assignments are sections from Purcell Electricity and Magnetism (P), the Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume 1 (F), and Welford Optics (W).
The second column has a link to the course lecture notes.| Week | # | Date | Reading | Partial Topics | Problems | Links/Comments | |
| 1 | 1 | 1/9 | P Ch. 4 pp. 123-132 | Currents, Conductivity, Ohm's Law | #1 Due 1/18;Solutions | ||
| 2 | 1/11 | P Ch. 4 pp. 133-142 | Physics of Conduction | ||||
| 3 | 1/13 | P Ch. 4 pp. 142-148 | Metals and Semiconductors | #2 Due 1/23;Solutions | |||
| 2 | 1/16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday | |||||
| 4 | 1/18 | P Ch. 4 pp. 148-154 | Circuit Elements, Energy Dissipation | ||||
| 5 | 1/20 | P Ch. 4 pp. 154-161 | Networks with Batteries, RC Circuits | #3 Due 1/30;Solutions | |||
| 3 | 6 | 1/23 | F Ch. 15 pp. 1-5 | Finite Speed of Light, Relativity of Constant Velocity | F Chapter 15 | ||
| 7 | 1/25 | F Ch. 15 pp. 5-11 | Time Dilitation | ||||
| 8 | 1/27 | F Ch. 16 pp. 1-6 | Length Contraction | #4 Due 2/6;Solutions | F Chapter 16 | ||
| 4 | 9 | 1/30 | F Ch. 16 pp. 6-10, Ch. 17 1-2 | Invariant Interval | F Chapter 17 | ||
| 10 | 2/1 | F Ch. 17 2-8 | Pole Vaulter Paradox | ||||
| 11 | 2/3 | Review Feynman | Velocity Addition, Energy-Momentum | #5 Due 2/13;Solutions | |||
| 5 | 12 | 2/6 | P Ch. 5 pp. 170-181 | Relativity of Charge, Transformation of Electric Field | Practice Midterm Solutions | ||
| 13 | 2/8 | P Ch. 5 pp. 181-189 | Field Lines of Moving Charge | ||||
| 2/10 | Midterm | #6 Due 2/22;Solutions | |||||
| 6 | 14 | 2/13 | P Ch. 5 pp. 189-192 | Interaction Between Moving Charges and Other Charges | |||
| 15 | 2/15 | P Ch. 5 pp. 192-195 | Interactions between two wires, with relativity | ||||
| 16 | 2/17 | P Ch. 6 pp. 208-214 | Definition of B, Forces Between Wires | #7 Due 2/27;Solutions | |||
| 7 | 2/20 | President's Day Holiday | |||||
| 17 | 2/22 | P Ch. 6 pp. 214-219 | Line integral of B around a loop | ||||
| 18 | 2/24 | #8 Due 3/6;Solutions | |||||
| 8 | 19 | 2/27 | P Ch. 6 pp. 219-226 | Vector Potential | |||
| 20 | 3/1 | P Ch. 6 pp. 226-232 | B Field of Ring, Solenoid, Sheet | ||||
| 21 | 3/3 | P Ch. 6 pp. 232-245 | B Pressure, Transformation of Fields | #9 and Last, due Friday 3/17;Solutions | |||
| 9 | 22 | 3/6 | P Ch. 7 pp. 256-265 | Induction of Current | |||
| 23 | 3/8 | P Ch. 7, pp. 266-271 | Lenz's Law | ||||
| 24 | 3/10 | P Ch. 7, pp. 271-276 | Maxwell's Equations, Examples | This week's homework assigned last week. | |||
| 10 | 25 | 3/13 | P Ch. 7, pp. 276-281 | Mutual Inductance, Reciprocity, Self Inductance | |||
| 26 | 3/15 | P Ch. 7, pp. 281-286 | LR Circuits, Energy in Field | ||||
| 27 | 3/17 | Review | |||||
| Final | 3/20 | 8:00-11:00am 1610 Broida | |||||