Physics 204 LECTURE: Summer, 2013

John Jay College of Criminal Justice:The City University of New York

Daniel A. Martens Yaverbaum

LAST UPDATED June 3, 2013

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DATE

LECTURE

READING

ASSIGNMENT

 EQUATIONS

May 29

First Principles:

1. Particles & Information

2.Hooke's Law Review

 

Welcome (Back):

UnThingy Things

 F = -kx

May 29

Simple Harmonic Motion:

Homogeneity of Time

HRW: Chapter 15

1. Complete Review Problem #1 (on ChalkBoard):

A Thing On A Spring

2. page 405: Problem 9.  PLUS: "Assume the mass of this oscillator is 30 kg.  If an ideal spring is causing the simple harmonic oscillation, find the 'K' (force constant) for that spring."

3. page 406: Problem 29.

4. page 406: Problem 31.

 

June 3

Differential Equation:

A General Solution

Chapter 16

Oscillations & Waves

 

 

June 3

 

A Uniformly Dense Sphere:

A Particular Solution

 

p. 468: Problem 1,

p. 469: Problem 21,

p. 470: Problem 27,

p. 471: Problem 39,

p. 471: Problem 55.

 

 June 5 The Wave Equation:

Derivation & Implication

  Review for QUIZ

Quest from P204 Summer, 2011

 
June 5 Wave Speed      
June 10 QUEST   QUEST

1) Derive the Wave Equation from first principles:

You will be given a blank sheet of paper and asked to reproduce the derivation found on pp. 423-424 of HRW.

2) You will be asked to solve exactly one multi-part problem regarding oscillations and waves.  It will sharply resemble one h.w. problem that we solved in class; only the numbers and similarly small details will be changed to protect the innocent.

 
June 10 The Doppler Effect Chapter 17 KETCHUP!

(No new problems: Catch Up on back assignments and/or sleep.)

 
June 12 Interference

 

KETCHUP!  
June 12 Harmonics Chapter 21

Electric Charge & Force

 
June 17 Standing Waves in 1 and 2 Dimensions Chapter 22 ***  
June 17 Electric Charge &

the Electrostatic Force

Chapter 23 p. 598: 3, 9, 19, 31

p. 622: 3

 
June 19 Insulators, Conductors &

Electrostatic Equilibirum

     
June 19 Mid-Term Review Chapter 24 Gauss's Law  
June 24 Electric Fields

Chapter 25

   
June 24 Continuous Charge Distributions:

Electric Flux

SOLVE MORE PROBLEMS! PRACTICE MID-TERM  
June 26 Gauss's Law
for Electric Fields
Chapter 26    
June 26 Uncertainty & Findings Chapter 27 Measuring Along the Path
 From Pole to Pole
 
July 1 Gaussian Symmetries

& Distance-Dependences
 

 

 
July 1 MID-TERM! Chapter 28

SOLUTIONS to Practice Mid-Term

 
July 3 Electric Potential

& Capacitance
Chapter 29 Mid-Term EQUATION List  
July 3 Fundamentals of Circuits:

Current and Resistance
Chapter 30    
July 8

Devices in Combination &

The RC Circuit

Chapters 32, 33 Magnetic Field and Flux  
July 8 The RC Circuit Chapter 35 (Intentionally out of Sequence)    
July 10 Magnetostatic Directions:

Dot Products, Cross Products &
 
Chapter 35 (Intentionally out of Sequence)    
July 10 The Lorentz Force Law      
July 15 Magnetostatic Magnitudes:

The Biot-Savart Law &

Gauss's Law Revisited

Chapter 34 (Intentionally out of Sequence) EXTRA CREDIT I:

Extra Credit: 1. Assuming the conservation of electric potential energy, type out a full derivation for the current as a function of time in an RC Circuit.

2. Assuming the numerical values presented BELOW for a particular RC Circuit (two resistors in parallel, one in series both with the pair and with the capacitor), find the amount of time for the current to decay to half its original value.

Emf = 9 Volts.

C = 100 micro-Farads.

R1 (in main loop of circuit, series with battery and capacitor) = 400 Ohms.

R2 = 200 Ohms,

R3 = 300 Ohms.

R2 and R3 are both in parallel with each other. But that parallel configuration itself is in series with everything else.

 
July 15 Ampere's Law      
July 17  

Electromagnetic Induction:

Faraday's Law

 

Chapter 37 p. 884, Problem 7,

p. 888, Problem 59,

p. 919, Problem 47,

p. 920, Problem 59,

p. 954, Problem 68

 
July 22 Displacement Current   SOLUTIONS TO MIDTERM  
July 24

Electromagnetic Radiation:

Principle Begets Postulate

  EXTRA CREDIT II DUE

BRING PRACTICE EXAM TO CLASS!

 

Thursday July 25

FINAL EXAM

 

in Lecture Room

 

PRACTICE EXAM

SOLUTIONS

(Solutions Updated/Corrected as of 7/23/12)

Final

EQUATION

List

Note: All assignments are 1) highlighted, 2) DUE the day on which they appear and 3) hyper-linked as we progress through the year.

 

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