| Wk | Date | Day | Homework | Quiz | Lec # | Chptr | Description |
| 5-Sep | Mon | Labor Day - no classes | |||||
| 6-Sep | Tue | Discussion Ch.22 | |||||
| 1 | 7-Sep | Wed | 1 | Course introduction, thinking patterns | |||
| 8-Sep | Thu | Lab introduction, uncertainty | |||||
| 9-Sep | Fri | 2 | 22.4 | Coulomb's Law, electric field | |||
| 12-Sep | Mon | 3 | 22.6 | More about electric fields | |||
| 13-Sep | Tue | Discussion Ch.23a | |||||
| 2 | 14-Sep | Wed | 4 | 23.1 | Ring and disk of charge | ||
| 15-Sep | Thu | Lab 1: Electric fields | |||||
| 16-Sep | Fri | Ch. 22 | Quiz | 5 | 23.2 | Particle motion, electric flux | |
| 19-Sep | Mon | 6 | 23.3 | Intro to Gauss's law | |||
| 20-Sep | Tue | Discussion Ch.23b | |||||
| 3 | 21-Sep | Wed | 7 | 23.4 | Gauss's law, fields in conductors | ||
| 22-Sep | Thu | Lab 2: Library report | |||||
| 23-Sep | Fri | Ch. 23 | Quiz | 8 | 24.3 | The electric potential | |
| 26-Sep | Mon | 9 | 24.6 | Potential, conductors, concentric spheres | |||
| 27-Sep | Tue | Discussion Ch.24 | |||||
| 4 | 28-Sep | Wed | 10 | 25.2 | Capacitance | ||
| 29-Sep | Thu | Lab 3: Capacitors | |||||
| 30-Sep | Fri | Ch. 24 | Quiz | 11 | 25.3 | Capacitor combinations, energy storage | |
| 3-Oct | Mon | 12 | 25.4 | Energy stored in fields | |||
| 4-Oct | Tue | Discussion Ch.25 | |||||
| 5 | 5-Oct | Wed | 13 | 25.7 | Dielectrics | ||
| 6-Oct | Thu | Exam I: Chs. 22-24 | |||||
| 7-Oct | Fri | 14 | 26.3 | Current, resistance, Ohm's law, conductivity | |||
| 10-Oct | Mon | Ch. 25 | Quiz | 15 | 26.6 | Electric power, real batteries | |
| 11-Oct | Tue | Discussion Ch.26 | |||||
| 6 | 12-Oct | Wed | 16 | 27.3 | Series/parallel circuits | ||
| 13-Oct | Thu | Lab 4a: DC Circuits I | |||||
| 14-Oct | Fri | Ch. 26 | Quiz | 17a | 27.4 | Kirchhoff's rules | |
| 17-Oct | Mon | 17b | 28.1 | RC circuits | |||
| 18-Oct | Tue | Discussion Ch.27 | |||||
| 7 | 19-Oct | Wed | 18 | 28.2 | Magnetic fields, forces, vector cross product | ||
| 20-Oct | Thu | La4b: DC Circuits II | |||||
| 21-Oct | Fri | Ch. 27 | Quiz | 19a | 28.3 | Magnetic force, helical motion, aurora | |
| 24-Oct | Mon | 19b | 28.4 | Magnetic force on charges and currents | |||
| 25-Oct | Tue | Discussion Ch.28-29 | |||||
| 8 | 26-Oct | Wed | 20 | 29.1 | The Biot-Savart law, loop of current | ||
| 27-Oct | Thu | Lab 5: Multi-looped and RC circuits | |||||
| 28-Oct | Fri | 21 | 29.4 | Ampere's law, solenoids | |||
| 31-Oct | Mon | Chs. 28-29 | Quiz | 23 | 30.2 | Motional emf, magnetic flux, Faraday's law | |
| 1-Nov | Tue | Discussion Ch.30 | |||||
| 9 | 2-Nov | Wed | 24 | 30.5 | Lenz's law, generators | ||
| 3-Nov | Thu | Exam II: Chs. 25-29 | |||||
| 4-Nov | Fri | 25 | 31.3 | Inductance, RL circuits, B-field energy | |||
| 7-Nov | Mon | Ch. 30 | Quiz | 26 | 32.2 | AC sources and phasors | |
| 8-Nov | Tue | Discussion Ch.31-32 | |||||
| 10 | 9-Nov | Wed | 27a | 32.4 | Capacitor and inductor circuits 1 | ||
| 10-Nov | Thu | Lab 6: Faraday's law | |||||
| 11-Nov | Fri | Ch. 31 | Quiz | 27b | 32.5 | Capacitor and inductor circuits 2 | |
| 14-Nov | Mon | 28 | 32.5 | The series RLC circuit 1 | |||
| 15-Nov | Tue | Discussion Chs.32-33 | |||||
| 11 | 16-Nov | Wed | 29 | 32.7 | The series RLC circuit 2 | ||
| 17-Nov | Thu | Lab 7: RLC circuits | |||||
| 18-Nov | Fri | Ch. 32 | Quiz | 30 | 33.3 | Maxwell's eqs, electromagnetic wave basics | |
| 21-Nov | Mon | 31 | 33.5 | Energy, momentum, pressure | |||
| 22-Nov | Tue | Discussion Ch.33 | |||||
| 12 | 23-Nov | Wed | 32 | 34.4 | Reflection and refraction | ||
| 24-Nov | Thu | No class - Thanksgiving | |||||
| 25-Nov | Fri | No class - Thanksgiving | |||||
| 28-Nov | Mon | Ch. 33 | Quiz | 33 | 34.5 | T.I.Reflection, dispersion, Huygens' principle | |
| 29-Nov | Tue | Discussion Ch.34 | |||||
| 13 | 30-Nov | Wed | 35 | 35.2 | Plane and spherical mirrors | ||
| 1-Dec | Thu | Exam III: Chs. 30-33 | |||||
| 2-Dec | Fri | 36 | 35.4 | Images from refraction, thin lenses | |||
| 5-Dec | Mon | Ch. 34 | Quiz | 37 | 36.1 | The wave equation, wave reflection at boundaries | |
| 6-Dec | Tue | Discussion Ch.35 | |||||
| 14 | 7-Dec | Wed | 38 | 36.2 | Wave interference, Young's double slit | ||
| 8-Dec | Thu | Lab 8: Mirrors and lenses | |||||
| 9-Dec | Fri | Ch. 35 | Quiz | 39 | 36.5 | Thin film interference | |
| 12-Dec | Mon | 40 | 37.3 | Diffraction through apertures, resolution | |||
| 13-Dec | Tue | Discussion Chs.36-37 | |||||
| 15 | 14-Dec | Wed | Chs. 36-37 | Quiz | 41 | 37.4 | The diffraction grating, quiz |
| 15-Dec | Thu | Lab 9: Diffraction | |||||
| 16-Dec | Fri | (first day final exams) | |||||
| 19-Dec | Mon | Final Exam: 10:15am, Chs. 34-37 and cumulative | |||||