General Physics II &
the Zap! Lab

General Infomation

Time

MWF 8:30-9:30 (yes, early AM again); M 4:00-5:30

Place

SciBldg 216

Text

Young & Freedman's University Physics; lab notes

As in last term, math past algebra & trig isn't required but we will be using some notation from vector calclus, explaining what it means along the way.

The Zap! Lab will teach you how to do basic work with circuits, meters, voltage, current, and all that, as well as show you basic lab procedures and data analysis. Everyone will get a little red toolbox kit with lots of fun tools. Syllabi and assignments for both the class and lab are listed below separately.

Class Syllabus

Class Assignments

• for Fri Jan 23
  • Read chap 22 on Coulomb's force law and charge
  • Do Q22-6,12, and 22-5,11,25,33,60,63
• for Fri Jan 30
  • Read chap 23 on Gauss' Law
  • Do Q22-2,5,10,11, and 22-7,9
  • Explain what Gauss's Law says, and why it shold be so.
  • Using it, find the E-field for (a) a point, (b) a line, (c) a plane.
• for Fri Feb 6
  • Read chap 24 on Voltage.
  • Do Q24-4, Q24-5, Q24-13
  • Do exercises 24 - 5, 11, 13, 17, 25, 27, *84
• for Fri Feb 13
  • Read chap 26 and 27 on DC circuits, in particular
    V=IR, power=VI, series/parallel & Kirchoff's Laws.
  • Do exercises 26 - 9, 23, 37, 59, 60, *67
  • Do exercises 27 - 5, 17, 21
• for Fri Feb 20
  • Read chap 25 on Capacitance, especially plane-parallel ones.
  • Do questions Q25 - 5, 19
  • Do exercises 25 - 1, 5, 11, 17, 37
  • Make sure you can derive E, Q, Stored Energy for typical capacitor
• for Fri Feb 28
  • Test on the Electrostatics & DC circuit stuff we've done so far.
  • rd 27-4, 27-5 (RC circuit), 27-6 (household circuits)
  • do 27-35, 39, 53, 61, 63
• for Fri March 6
  • Read chapter 28 on what the Magnetic Field does.
  • Do Q28-7,9,13 and Exercises 28-5, 13, 19, 25, 39, 45, 54
• for Fri March 13
  • Read chapter 29 on where the Magnetic Field comes from.
  • Do Q29-7, 11 and Exercises 29-5, 11, 17, 28, 33
• for Fri April 3: test on chapters 28 & 29
• for Mon April 6
  • Read chapter 30, Induction.
  • Do Q30-8,10,11 and Exercises 30-1, 3, 13, 19, 21
• for Mon April 13
  • Finish chapter 30. Do 30-35, 41
  • Read the first few sections of 31, and do 31-3, 5, 9, 13, 19, 39*
• for Mon April 20
  • Finish Chapter 31, and read 32 on AC circuits.
  • Test coming up next Wednesday on Induction.
  • Do the assigned on-the-board problems on compex numbers and AC R,L,C series circuits, namely: use the complex impedence technique to find and plot the current I(t) given a voltage source V(t)=Vo sin(w t) in series with any combination of resistors, inductors, and/or capacitors.
  • I've made up a R-C worked example which gives the basic idea.

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  Lab Syllabus

  (still coming)

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  Lab Assignments

  1. for Mon Feb 2
     • Have Lab 1, the coin flipping experiment, finished:
       Measure the average number of heads found in N flips of a coin. Plot (number of heads H) vs (number of flips N) with error bars. Write up your results in your notebook, clearly, including a table of your data results as well as the mean and standard deviation of the number of heads for each value of N you examine.
     • In class do Lab 2, exploring multi-meters and voltage. (In class discussion/demo/work.)