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Physics and Astronomy

Physics 2102, Section 3, Spring 2007

General information:

Class:                   T-Th at 9:10-10:30, 109 Nicholson Hall.
Instructor:           Prof. Mette Gaarde, 222-C Nicholson Hall
Phone:                  578-0889               
Email:                  gaarde@phys.lsu.edu
Office hours:       Monday and Thursday 12:30-2:00 pm, or by appointment. Also try email, any time. 

Main class website: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/classes/spring2007/phys2102/
Syllabus:              in pdf-form
Schedule:             for T-Th lectures.


Extra lecture materials:

  • January 18: Electric field lines, one quiz, and two activities.  Also take a look at this applet, for visualizing electric fields from different charge distributions.
  • January 23: Charges in electric fields, torque and potential energy of dipole in E-field. One quiz, one activity.
  • January 25: Gauss' law. Illustration, one quiz, two activities.
  • January 30: Gauss' law. One quiz, one activity
  • February 1: Electric potential. Illustration, one quiz, two activities.
  • February 6: Review of chapters 21-24
  • February 13: Current and resistance. Two activities, one quiz
  • February 15: Simple circuits. One quiz, two activities.
  • February 22: Multi loop circuits. One quiz, two activities.
  • February 27: RC circuits, force from magnetic field. One quiz, two activities.
  • March 1: Force from magnetic field. One quiz, one activity
  • March 6: Review of chapters 25-28.
  • March 8: Magnetic fields from currents. Two activities, one quiz.
  • March 13: Induction - two activities, one quiz
  • March 15: Inductors, RL circuits
  • March 20: RL circuits, induced E-fields, LC circuits (w. diagram)
  • March 22: RLC circuits, simple driven AC circuits
  • March 27: Driven RLC circuits, resonance
  • March 29: Transformers (including diagram), Maxwell's equations
  • April 10: Review of chapters 29-32
  • April 19: Images from spherical mirrors
  • May 3: Review of chapters 33-36

Grades

Grades for test 3 can be downloaded here.
In the left column are the last four digits of your SSN, in the right column your grade (out of 100 points).

A list of your current grades at the end of the semester can be found here.
The list also shows the score you need on the final to make an A, B, or C in the course.

Grades for the final exam can be found here.
In the left column are the last four digits of your SSN, in the right column your grade, in percent.


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