| Haverford College Physics 106b-2013
-- Fundamental Physics II Lecturer: Walter
F. Smith (X1332, INSC L110) Syllabus (choose a format) Web Page .. PDF .. Word Format
Solutions
for assignments and exams (password required) Additional documents:
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MLK Day |
1-25-13 The electric field, electric fields of continuous charge distributions Web page .. PDF .. Word |
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1-28-13 |
1-30-13 Sketching electric field lines, definition of voltage, connection between E lines and equipotentials, V due to a point charge Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-1-13 Quantitative connections between E and V, voltage due to continuous charge distributions Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 2-4-13 Electric fields in and near conductors, part 1 Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-6-13 Qualitative form of Gauss's Law, electric flux Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-8-13 Quantitative form and application of Gauss's Law Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 2-11-13 Electric fields in and near conductors, part 2 Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-13-13 Capacitance, energy stored in capacitors, parallel plate capacitors Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-15-13 Energy denstiy of the electric field, series and parallel capacitors Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 2-18-13 Exam 1 review session |
2-20-13 Dielectrics, electric current, Ohm's law Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-22-13 Electric power, internal resistance Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 2-25-13 Series and parallel resistors, resistivitiy, microscopic view of conduction Web page .. PDF .. Word |
2-27-13 RC circuits, guessing solutions to differential equations, low pass filters Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-1-13 The Magnetic field, Oersted's experiment Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 3-4-13 Magnetic force on a particle, trajectories in uniform magnetic fields Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-6-13 Magnetic force on a wire, motors, Hall effect Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-8-13 Sources of B, Biot-Savart Law Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 3-18-13 Ampere's Law Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-20-13 Definition of threading, field of a solenoid, Faraday's discovery Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-22-13 Derivation of motional emf from magnetic force Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 3-25-13 Faraday's Law, why we need transformers Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-27-13 Transformers, magnetic recording, Lenz's Law Web page .. PDF .. Word |
3-29-13 Using Faraday's law to find induced E, eddy currents, summary of right-hand rules Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 4-1-13 Correction to Ampere's Law, Summary of Maxwell's equations Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-3-13 Are plane waves allowed by Maxwell's equations? (part1) Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-5-13 Are plane waves allowed by Maxwell's equations? (part 2), speed of light, methods of detecting em radiattion Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 4-8-13 Exam 2 review |
4-10-13 Producing em waves, intensity, Poynting vector, radiation pressure Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-12-13 Superposition, Huygen's principle, two-slit interference Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 4-15-13 Single slit diffraction, two slit interference with finite slits Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-17-13 Rayleigh Criterion, diffraction gratings Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-19-13 Atomic emission spectroscopy, uncertainty principle interpretation of diffraction, intro to special relativity Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 4-22-13 Time dilation Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-24-13 Synchronization, Length Contraction Web page .. PDF .. Word |
4-26-13 Numerical example, train and tunnel paradox, Lorentz transformation Web page .. PDF .. Word |
| 4-29-13 Relativity problem solving procedure, relativistic velocity transforms, why nothing can go faster than c Web page .. PDF .. Word |
5-1-13 Relativistic momentum and mass Web page .. PDF .. Word |
Handouts:
Mathematica keyboard shortcuts & physical constants
(This is a Mathematica notebook; save it to your computer first, then double-click to open it with Mathematica)
Historical Notes, demonstrator
applets, songs, etc.
Math
Appendices -- Helpful mathematical material collected
by Haverford and Bryn Mawr Physics majors some years ago, edited
by Lyle Roelofs. Electric Field Hockey! To get started, click on "Run Now". Arrange the positive and negative charges (drag them out of the supply) so that the puck goes into the goal. Be sure to click the buttons for "field" and "trace"! Gauss's
Law Song A
really nice DC motors demonstration
Michael Faraday: Nikola Tesla: PBS website (very detailed!) The
Mechanical Universe: Free registration required. Choose
episode 39. The part we watched in class starts at 19:15. The
Mechanical Universe: Free registration required. Choose
episode 42. The part we watched in class starts at 6:57.
1736-1806
Coulomb's Law song (karaoke version!)
Here's a nifty two-dimensional electric fields and voltage applet.
Use the slider bar to determine the strength and polarity
of a charge, then click to place it. For me, the "Go" feature
doesn't work well, since I can't see the charges while they're
moving. But, the displays of the field configurations and
equipotentials are pretty neat. Red equipotentials correspond
to positive voltages (relative to the voltage infinitely
far away) and blue to negative voltages.
Volta's Triumph song
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At the time I wrote this, our textbook used n-hat times dA, instead of d-vector-A, but the meaning is the same -- n-hat is a unit vector that points in the same direction as d-vector-A.)An
Ode to Capacitors (This is the original version, which is for a vacuum between the plates. You can squeeze in the "kappa" just before the epsilon-naught if you like, but it screws up the meter somewhat.)
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Magnetic Monopoles Song
Oersted
Song
(Including link to Techno version by Aziz Khan!)
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Physics Utopia (Faraday's Law Song)
Song & video about induction and transformers
Tesla Song: lyrics & chords .. mp3 (Guitar by Matt McCutchan)
Maxwell's Equations
Ampere's Law Song
Poynt Little Vector song: lyrics .. mp3 (guitar by Matt McCutchan)
The ether song
E = h nu song
Non-simultaneity in relativity
Background
image: A rare triple lightning strike (this is not a multiple
exposure), taken on the great plains by Dr. Steven Horsburgh. |
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