PHYS 122 - TENTATIVE OUTLINE FOR SPRING 2002:

${\cal H}$ = look it up in the HyperTextBook or the Skeptic's Guide.

Week	Date	Reading	TOPICS
1.	4 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 21	Statistical Mechanics vs. Thermodynamics
		${\cal H}$	"Count the ways" - defining ENTROPY
2.	7 Jan.	${\cal H}$	"What's Hot?" - defining TEMPERATURE
		${\cal H}$	Boltzmann - occupation probabilities
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 22	Ideal Gases - equipartition & pressure
3.	14 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 22	Particle in a Box - Maxwellian velocity distibutions
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 25	"Charge! " - Coulomb's Law
4.	21 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 26	Action at a Distance - why invent a "field"?
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 27	Symmetric Conservation - Gauss' law for $\vec{g}$ & $\vec{E}$
5.	28 Jan.	Ch. 28	Potential vs. Capacity
		Ch. 29,30	"C & thee" - capacitance explored
6.	4 Feb.	Ch. 31	"R & I" - resistance vs. current; Kirchhoff's rules
			"RC" - time constant in DC circuits
		Ch. 31	Transport Theory
7.	11 Feb.	Ch. 32	"I cross B" - the Lorentz force and why we invent $\vec{B}$
		Ch. 33	"Do $\vec{B}$, do $\vec{B}$, do! " - moving charges make $\vec{B}$ (Biot & Savart)
			"Link the loop with symmetry" - using Ampère's law
	18 Feb.	Spring Reading Break
8.	25 Feb.		TRIUMF tour
		Midterm Examination
9.	4 Mar	Ch. 34,36	"Don't change that flux!" - inductance, Faraday & Lenz
			"Inductive logic" - defining, calculating and using L
10.	11 Mar	Ch. 37	LCR circuits & Alternating Current
		Ch. 38	Maxwell's "Displacement Current"
11.	18 Mar	Ch. 38,39	Maxwell's equations: "Let there be light!"
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 41	Thin film interference
12.	25 Mar	${\cal H}$, Ch. 41	N slit interference
		Ch. 42,43	Diffraction
13.	1 Apr	${\cal H}$	Concept Maps
			Review
	mid-Apr	Final Examination

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