Physics 390:Fall 2020

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August 23
Organizational meeting

Assignment of topics for next classes

 




September 02
Labor Day Holiday






August 31
15 minute presentations 01

Mechanics I

 

 

ALL:1. preliminary topic

submission

 ALL


statics

  kinematics
motion

conservation of energy wk
conservation of momentum
uniform circular motion am
Newton's laws






September 07

15 minute presentations 02

Mechanics II

 

ALL: 2. Revised prelim topic submission  ALL


Torque and Equilibrium am


Rolling Motion

 

gravity

non-uniform circular motion


simple harmonic oscillation

wk

conservation of angular momentum


rigid body rotational motion






September 14

15 minute presentations 03

Waves

 
 

ALL: 3. Revised prelim topic

submission   ALL
  traveling pulses
standing waves wk
transverse waves on strings am
sound
TEM waves
longitudinal waves
energy and power transmission by waves





September 21
15 minute presentations 04
Thermodynamics  
  ALL: 4. Formal Topics Submission for approval    ALL

calorimetry
linear expansion am
ideal gas wk
internal energy
entropy
adiabatic ideal gas
Carnot Cycle and heat engines






September 28

15 minute presentations 05

Electrostatics *

 
  ALL: 5. Formal Progress Submission: Update 01    ALL

 

Coulomb's law
Electric dipole
Gauss's Law

Electrostatic field

Electrostatic Potential wk
Capacitance and energy density am
Resistance and current






October 5

15 minute presentations 06

Magnetism *

 
 

ALL: 6. Formal Progress

Submission: Update 02    ALL
  Ampere's law wk
TEM waves

Solenoid
magnetization
Inductance and energy density am
Displacement current












October 12

15 minute presentations 07

Optics *

 
 

ALL: 7. Formal Progress

Submission: Update 03    ALL
  Snell's Law am
images formed with thin lenses
images formed with spherical mirrors
dispersion and prisms wk
polarization and Brewster's angle
interference of light waves





October 19
15 minute presentations 08 Misc. Physics Topics I
(Student Selected)

wk, am


ALL: 8. Formal Progress Submission: Update 04 ALL























October 26
15 minute presentations 09

Misc. Physics Topics II
(Student Selected)

  am, wk


ALL: 9. Formal Progress Submission: Update 05 ALL


















November 02
15 minute presentations 10
Misc. Physics Topics III
(Student Selected)

 
wk,am


ALL: Rough Draft Due Submission: Rough Draft Due ALL




















November 09
25 minute presentation 1 student presentations

All final presentations due this day
wk

ALL




November 16
25 minute presentation
1 student presentations

am