Physics 121 Notes

Week #1

Labs will start Thursday 1/7/16

Quiz #1 will be on Friday 1/8/16

Week #2

Quiz #2 will be on Friday 1/15/16

Lab #2 will be on Thursday 1/14/16

Week #3

Quiz #3 will be on Friday 1/22/16

Week #4

Exam #1 will be on Friday, January 29, 2016 and will cover chapters 13 - 16.5. You may start the exam at 7:45am if you'd like.

Week #5

Quiz #4 will be on Friday 2/5/16

Lab #4 will be Thursday 2/4/16

Week #6

Quiz #5 will be on Friday 2/1216

Lab # 5 will be on Thursday 2/11/16

Week #7

Quiz #6 will be on Friday 2/19/16

Lab #6 will be on Thursday 2/18/16

Week #8

Lab #7 will be on Thursday 2/25/16

Exam #2 will be on Friday, 2/26/16 and will cover Ch. 16.5 - 20.5. You may start the exam at 7:45am if you'd like.

Week #9

There will be no lab this week but lab #7 is due.

Lab #7 (charge-to-mass ratio of the electron) due Thursday 3/3/16 by noon.

Quiz #7 will be on Friday 3/4/16

Week #10

There is lab this week on Thursday 3/10/16. It is our last lab.

There is no quiz this week.

There is no formal class on Friday. On Friday Final exam information will be presented. It will also be posted below.

Winter 2016 Final Exam Information:

Physics 121 Final Exam: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 from 2:30pm - 4:30pm in Olin 115. You may start the exam at 2:00pm if you'd like.

There are 6 problems on the exam. Each problem is 24 points. The final exam is out of 144 points.

Exam Topics

1. Electrostatics: Charges, electric fields and forces; electric potential energy, electric potential, work, electric dipoles

2. Resistor Circuits: Current, electric potential, electric fields, resistance, resistors in series & parallel, loop and node rules, power

3. RC Circuits: Capacitors, capacitance, capacitors in series & parallel, time constants, charging & discharging capacitors

4. Magnetism: Magnetic fields, magnetic forces, charges, electric forces & electric fields, electric potentials, electric work, work-kinetic energy theorem

5. Magnetism: Mangnetic forces & magnetic fields, currents, ohm's law, momentum prinicple

6. Faraday's law: Resistance, resistors, current, ohm's law, electric potential, faraday's law, magnetic flux