PY106 Demos

PY106 Demos - Spring 1998

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Course schedule:

Day 1 - 1-12-98
Section A and section B - Electric Charge , Electrostatic Charging


The video camera was used with several of these demos.

Section C in addition to above (add Coulomb's law)

Day 2 - 1-14-98
Section A and section B - Coulomb's law


The video camera was also used.

Section C - Electric field

Day 3 - Electric field
1-16-98 : Section A and section B

Day 4 - Electric field
1-21-98

Day 5 - Gauss' law; Potential energy and potential
1-23-98

Day 6 - More potential; Capacitance and dielectrics
1-26-98

Day 7 - Capacitance and dielectrics, Batteries and current
1-28-98

Day 8 - Batteries and current; Resistance
1-30-98

Day 9 - Resistance in series and parallel
2-2-98

Day 10 - Kirchoff's Rules
2-4-98

Day 11 - More Kirchoff's Rules
2-6-98

Day 12 - Magnetic fields
2-9-98

Day 13 - Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields
2-11-98

Day 14 - Magnetic materials
2-13-98

Day 15 - Induced emf
2-17-98

Day 16 - Faraday's law, Lenz's law
2-18-98

Day 17 - Electric generators
2-20-98

Day 18 - Review for test 1
2-23-98

Day 19 - Inductance and transformers
2-25-98

Day 20 - AC Circuits
2-27-98

Day 21 - Resonance in AC Circuits
3-2-98

Day 22 - More AC Circuits; EM Waves
3-4-98

Day 23 - EM Waves, polarized light
3-6-98

Day 24 - Polarized light; Reflection
3-16-98

Day 25 - Reflection; spherical mirrors
3-18-98

Day 26 - Refraction
3-20-98

Day 27 - Total internal reflection
3-23-98

Day 28 - Brewster's angle; Dispersion; lenses
3-25-98

Day 29 - Lenses; the human eye
3-27-98

Day 30 - Double slit; thin-film interference
3-30-98

Day 31 - Thin-film interference
4-1-98

Day 32 - Diffraction; resolving power
4-3-98

Day 33 - Review; diffraction gratings
4-6-98

Day 34 - Diffraction gratings
4-8-98

Day 35 - Relativity
4-10-98

Day 36 - Photo-electric effect
4-13-98

Day 37 - The atom
4-15-98

Day 38 - The Bohr model
4-17-98

Day 39 - Quantum mechanics
4-22-98

Day 40 - Radioactivity
4-24-98

Day 41 - Radioactivity; Nuclear reactions
4-27-98

Day 42 - Review
4-29-98