PY106 Notes

Overview

Electric Charge, Force, Field, and Potential

• Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law
• The Electric Field
• Potential Energy and Potential

DC Circuits

• Capacitors, Batteries, and Current
• Resistance and Ohm's Law; Series and Parallel
• Kirchoff's Laws and Multi-loop Circuits

Magnetism

• The Magnetic Field; The Force on a Charged Particle
• Forces and Torques; Examples
• Ferromagnetism

Electromagnetic Induction and AC Circuits

• Faraday's Law
• Generators, Inductance, and Transformers
• AC Circuits

Optics

• Electromagnetic Waves
• Reflection and Refraction
• Lenses
• Interference
• Diffraction; Thin-film Interference
• Polarized light; The Human Eye
• Microscopes and Telescopes

Modern Physics

• Special Relativity
• The Quantum World
• The Bohr Model of the Atom
• The Periodic Table
• Radioactive Decay and Radioactivity
• Nuclear Reactions