PHY 102 Slides and Lecture Notes

Each link will take you to a Google Slides presentation for the week’s slides. The associated lecture notes for each slide are in the presenter’s note sections. It is recommended that you either create a copy of the presentation in your own Google Drive, or you can convert it to a PDF using File >> Print preview and then changing “1 page without notes” to “1 page with notes”.

Unit 1

Week 1
- Monday (January 8, 2024)
  - Introductions
  - Syllabus and Course Overview
- Wednesday (January 10, 2024)
- Friday (January 12, 2024)
  - Light and Sound
Week 2
- Monday (January 15, 2024)
  - No Class, MLK Day
- Wednesday (January 17, 2024)
  - Light and Sound (Finsih the Doppler Effect)
  - Wave Interfernece
  - Solutions to In-Class Problems
- Friday (January 19, 2024)
  - Standing Waves
Week 3
- Monday (January 22, 2024)
  - Wave Optics (Part 1)
  - Wave Optics Visualization
- Wednesday (January 24, 2024)
  - Wave Optics (Part 2)

Unit 2

Week 3
- Friday (January 26, 2024)
  - Introduction to Charge and Electric Force
Week 4
- Monday
  - Electric Force and Field
- Wednesday
  - Electric Force and Field (Continued from Monday)
- Friday
  - Unit 1 Exam
Week 5
- Monday
  - Dipole and Electric Field Through Integration
- Wednesday
  - Gauss’s Law and the Charged Sphere
- Friday
  - Electric Field of Other Large Objects
Week 6
- Monday
  - Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
- Wednesday
  - Parallel Plates and Capacitors
- Friday
  - Parallel Plates and Capacitors (Finish from Wednesday)
  - Particles in Uniform Electric Fields
Week 7
- Monday
  - The Final Electric Field Topics!
- Wednesday
  - Unit 2 Review

Unit 3

Week 7
- Friday
  - Current and Resistance
Week 8
- Monday
  - Introduction to Circuits
- Wednesday
  - Unit 2 Exam
Week 9
- Monday
  - Introduction to Circuits (Continued from Monday of Week 8)
- Wednesday
  - No Slides (In-Class Problem Solving)
- Friday
  - Introduction to Circuits (RC Circuits)
Week 10
- Monday
  - The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Field of Particles)
- Wednesday
  - The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Fields of Wires and Coils)
- Friday
  - The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Fields of Solenoids and Ampere’s Law)
Week 11
- Monday
  - The Magnetic Field (Cyclotron Motion, Parallel Wires)
- Wednesday
  - Magnetic Flux and Lenz’s Law
- Friday
  - No Class, Good Friday
Week 12
- Monday
  - Faraday’s Law
- Wednesday
  - Unit 3 Review
- Friday ** Unit 3 Exam** ## Unit 4
Week 13
- Monday and Wednesday
  - Optics Part 1: Refraction
  - Optics Simulation
  - [Why does light bend through a material? (Video))[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DWnb2UUlqd0?si=CK5jzQbdrhfGCrNk]
- Friday
  - Optics Part 2: Reflection
Week 14
- Monday and Wednesday
  - No Slides (In-Class Practice)
- Friday
  - Introduction to Modern Physics
Week 15
- Monday (April 22, 2024)
  - Introduction to Nuclear Physics
- Wednesday (April 24, 2024)
  - General Physics Day
- Friday (April 26, 2024)
  - Unit 1 Review
Week 16
- Monday (April 29, 2024)
  - Unit 2 Review
- Wednesday (May 1, 2024)
  - Unit 3 Review