Pratt's Lecture Notes for Physics 232 (Spring 1998)

These notes were prepared by Prof. Scott Pratt (Spring 1998). I have edited them slightly, but they do not necessarily correspond to the topics and emphasis of this semester's course. No warranty -- use at your own risk!

This semester's lecture notes are HERE.

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