Pumplin's Lecture Notes for Physics 232 (Spring 1999)

These notes are intended mainly as a reminder of major topics that were covered in lecture. For in-depth review, the student should consult the textbook. (Many of these notes are based on notes prepared by Prof. Scott Pratt (Spring 1998), which are available here.)

1. Coulomb's law
2. Electric fields and electric potentials
3. Gauss's law and conductors
4. Capacitors
5. Resistors, Ohm's law
6. Kirchhoff's laws
7. RC circuits
8. Magnetic fields and forces
9. Sources of magnetic fields
10. Magnetic materials
11. Magnetic induction
12. AC circuits
13. Semiconductor devices
14. Electromagnetic waves
15. Optics, refraction
16. Optics, mirrors
17. Optics, lenses
18. Optical devices
19. Interference and diffraction of light
20. Relativity
21. Quantum physics
22. Atomic physics
23. Radioactivity and the biological effects of radiation
24. Nuclear physics
25. Particle physics
26. Cosmology and astrophysics