PHY 232 General University Physics

Fall 2017

Written Class Notes

Class 1 Aug 23, 2017 Circular motion and Newton's Law of Gravitation

Class 2 Aug 25, 2017 Potential energy

Class 3 Aug 28, 2017 Torque and vector cross product

Class 4 Aug 30, 2017 Coulomb's Law

Class 5 Sept 1, 2017 Electric fields

Sept 4, 2017 Labor day. No class.

Class 6 Sept 6, 2017 More electric fields

(note that there is a mistake in the last two pages)

Class 7 Sept 8, 2017 Electric field lines and electric flux

Class 8 Sept 11, 2017 Gauss's Law

Class 9 Sept 13, 2017 - Application of Gauss's Law I

Class 10 Sept 15, 2017 - Application of Gauss's Law II

Class 11 Sept 18, 2017 - Electric potential and electric potential energy

Class 12 Sept 20, 2017 - Test 1

Class 13 Sept 22, 2017 - Calculation of electric potential

Class 14 Sept 25, 2017 - Conductors and equipotentials

Class 15 Sept 25, 2017 - Capacitance

Class 16 Sept 29, 2017 - Energy stored in a capacitor

Class 17 Oct 2, 2017 - Capacitors in parallel and series

Class 18 Oct 4, 2017 - Capacitors in parallel and series I

Class 19 Oct 6, 2017 - Currents

Class 20 Oct 9, 2017 - Resistance and Ohm's Law

Class 21 Oct 11, 2017 - Test 2

Class 22 Oct 13, 2017 - Resistors in series and parallel

Class 23 Oct 16, 2017 - Electromotive force and internal resistance

Class 24 Oct 18, 2017 - Kirchhoff's rules

Class 25 Oct 20, 2017 - RC circuits

Class 26 Oct 23, 2017 - Magnetic force on a moving point charge

Class 27 Oct 25, 2017 - Motion of point charge in a uniform field

Class 28 Oct 27, 2017 - Magnetic force on a current

Class 29 Oct 30, 2017 - Magnetic force and torque on a current loop

Class 30 Nov 1, 2017 - Test 3

Class 31 Nov 3, 2017 - Hall effect

Class 32 Nov 6, 2017 - Biot-Savart law

Class 33 Nov 8, 2017 - Ampere's Law

Class 34 Nov 10, 2017 - Force between two currents

Class 35 Nov 13, 2017 - Faraday's Law: Maxwell's 4^th equation

Class 36 Nov 15, 2017 - Faraday's Law: Motion emf

Class 37 Nov 17, 2017 - Lenz's Law

Class 38 Nov 20, 2017 - Eddy current

Nov 22, 2017 Thanksgiving. No class.

Nov 24, 2017 Thanksgiving. No class.

Class 39 Nov 27, 2017 - Mutual and self-inductance

Class 40 Nov 29, 2017 - RL circuits

Class 41 Dec 1, 2017 - LC Circuits

Class 42 Dec 4, 2017 - More LC cricuits

Class 43 Dec 6, 2017 - Displacement current and electromagnetic wave equation

Class 44 Dec 8, 2017 - Electromagnetic radiation