Pumplin's Lecture Notes for Physics 232 (Spring 2000)

These notes are intended as a reminder of the 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 written by Prof. Scott Pratt for Spring 1998)

  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. Exam 1

  9. Magnetic fields and forces
  10. Sources of magnetic fields
  11. Magnetic materials
  12. Magnetic induction
  13. AC circuits

  14. Exam 2

  15. Semiconductor devices
  16. Electromagnetic waves
  17. Optics, refraction
  18. Optics, mirrors
  19. Optics, lenses
  20. Optical devices
  21. Interference and diffraction of light

  22. Exam 3

  23. Relativity
  24. Quantum physics
  25. Atomic physics
  26. Radioactivity and the biological effects of radiation
  27. Nuclear physics

  28. Exam 4

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  29. Particle physics
  30. Cosmology and astrophysics