PHYS   115A            Schedule      Fall        09

week            date                             lecture  topic                               text  reading

 1             Oct  1                   Introduction

                Oct  2                   Static    Fluids                                         15.1 to 15.3

 2             Oct  5                   Archimedes &  Floating                         15.4 to 15.5

                Oct  6                   Fluids   in Motion                                   15.6 to 15.8

                Oct  8                   Temperature & Expansion                      16.1 to 16.3

                Oct  9                   Heat,Work & Specific Heat                    16.4 to 16.5

  3            Oct  12                 Heat   Transfer                                         16.6

                Oct  13                  Ideal Gases and Kinetic Theory              17.1 to 17.2

                Oct  15                  Phases & Latent Heat                              17.4 to 17.5

                Oct  16                  Energy & Phase Changes                        17.6

  4            Oct  19                  Review  & Extension

                Oct  20                  EXAM      1

                Oct  22                  Energy & the First Law                           18.1 to 18.4

                Oct  23                  The Second  Law                                     18.5 to 18.7

  5            Oct  26                  Entropy                                                    18.8 to 18.10

                Oct  27                  Overview

                Oct  29                  Charge & Coulomb's Law                      19.1 to 19.3

                Oct  30                  Electric Field  &   Field Lines                 19.4 to 19.5

  6            Nov  2                   Charged Conductors & Gauss' Law       19.6 to 19.7

                Nov  3                   Electric  Potential                                    20.1 to 20.3

                Nov  5                   Equipotentials &  Capacitors                  20.4 to 20.6

                Nov  6                   Electric Potential Revisited

   7           Nov  9                   Review  &   Extension

                Nov  10                 EXAM       2

                Nov  12                 Electric Current                                       21.1 to 21.3

                Nov  13                 Resistors & Kirchhoff's Rules                21.4 to 21.5

    8          Nov  16                 Capacitors & RC Circuits                       21.6 to 21.7

                Nov  17                 Analyzing  DC Circuits             

                Nov  19                 Magnetism                                               22.1

                Nov  20                 Magnets  &   Charge                               22.2 to 22.3

     9         Nov  23                 Magnets  &  Current                                22.4 to 22.5

                Nov  24                 Ampere's  Law                                        22.6 to 22.7

                Nov  26                 HOLIDAY

                Nov  27                 HOLIDAY

 10           Nov  30                 Review  &    Extension

                Dec 1                    EXAM       3

                Dec 3                    Faraday's  Law                                        23.1 to 23.4

                Dec 4                    EM Induction & Applications                 23.5 to 23.7

11            Dec  7                   AC  Circuits    I                                       24.1 to 24.3

                Dec  8                   AC  Circuits    II                                      24.4 to 24.6

                Dec   10                Review  & Extension

                Dec   11                Review  &  Extension

12            Dec   17                FINAL       EXAM         8:30   am  to   10:20   am  

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