Pumplin's Lecture Notes for Physics 232 (Spring 2001)

These notes are intended as a reminder of the major topics that are covered in lecture. For in-depth study, the student must consult the textbook. (Many of these notes are based on those written by Prof. Scott Pratt (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

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

    13. Exam 2

  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. Exam 3

  20. Relativity
  21. Quantum physics
  22. Atomic physics
  23. Radioactivity and the biological effects of radiation
  24. Nuclear physics

    25. Exam 4

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  25. Particle physics
  26. Cosmology and astrophysics