P S 304, Fall 2007: Calendar

P S 304 Calendar of Events

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2-3 PM
Color Codes
  official university holiday
  class meetings 8 - 10 AM (#59660) and 10 AM - Noon (#59670)

January 2008
Monday Wednesday

14 First Day Handout
Register for the Homework Service. Regardless of which class you are in, use unique #59660 when registering for the homework service.
Review of useful information from P S 303.

16 Electrostatics: Coulomb's Law, Electric Field, Electric Potential

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23 Homework #1 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Electrostatics in-class Worksheet

28 Quiz
Circuits: Kirchoff's Laws, Series and Parallel
Lab: Unit XI [Activity 1 (Procedures 1 and 2)]

30 Homework #2 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Ohm's Law
Lab: Unit XI [Activity 1 (Procedures 3-6)]

February 2008
Monday Wednesday

4 Quiz
Handout on using Multimeters
Lab: Unit XI [Activity 2]

6 Homework #3 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Power
Lab: Unit XI [Activity 3 and Problems 3,8]

11 Circuits: Equivalent Resistance, more complex circuits.
In-class worksheet on circuits.

13 Homework #4 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Diodes [1][2]
Lab: Unit XII [Activity 1, Activity 2 (Procedures 1)]

18 Quiz
Lab: Unit XII [Activity 2 (Procedures 2,3)]

20 Homework #5 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Vacuum Tube
Lab: Unit XII [Activity 2 (Procedure 4), Activity 3]

25 Midterm review (attendence optional). Please bring questions.

27 Midterm

March 2008
Monday Wednesday

3 Magnetism
Lab: Unit 13 (Activity 1)

5 Homework #6 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Right Hand Rule
Lab: Unit 13 (Activity 2)

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17 Lab: Unit 13 (Activity 3)

19 Homework #7 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Lenz's Law
Lab: Unit 14 (Activity 1-2)

24 Quiz
AC Current Generator
Lab: Unit 14 (Activity 3-5) and Problems 3 & 5

26 Homework #8 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Faraday's Law
Transformer
In-class worksheet reviewing magnetism and Lenz's Law.

31 Waves
Lab: Unit 15 [Act 1]

 

April 2008
Monday Wednesday

 

2 Homework #9 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
Interference
Standing Waves
Lab: Unit 15 [Act 2 and 3]

7 Quiz
Sound Waves: Resonance
Lab: Unit 15 [Act 4]

9 Reflection
Refraction
Total Internal Reflection
Lab: Unit 17 [Act 1 (Proc 1 and 2)]

14 Class cancelled

16 Class cancelled

21 Quiz
Color
Images
Lab: Unit 17 [Act 1 (Proc 3), Act 2]

23 Lenses
Lab: Unit 17 [Act 3]

28 Quiz
Diffraction
Double-Slit Interference[1,2]

30 Homework #10 due (solutions available at 11 PM)
In-class worksheet reviewing waves
Review for final. Please bring questions.

May 2008
Saturday Tuesday

10 Final time for #59670: 7-10 PM in RLM 5.122

13 Final time for #59660: 9 AM - Noon in RLM 5.114