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Lec 1  Electricity &Magnetism

What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law

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Lec 3  Electricity &Magnetism

Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples

Lec 4  Electricity &Magnetism

Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces

Lec 5  Electricity &Magnetism

E = -grad V, More on Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)

Lec 2  Electricity &Magnetism

Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles

Lec 6  Electricity &Magnetism

High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning,
Sparks - St Elmo's Fire (Take Notes in Lecture)

Lec 7  Electricity &Magnetism

Capacitance, Field EnergyCapacitance, Field Energy

Lec 8  Electricity &Magnetism

Polarization, Dielectrics,
The Van de Graaff, More on Capacitors

Lec 9  Electricity &Magnetism

Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law

Lec 10 Electricity &Magnetism

Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water Dropper

Lec13  Electricity &Magnetism

Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber

Lec12  Electricity &Magnetism

Review Exam 1

Lec11  Electricity &Magnetism

Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), Oscilloscope

Lec14 Electricity &Magnetism

Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, Revisit the "Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power Lines

Lec15 Electricity &Magnetism

Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper, Midterm Evaluation

Lec16 Electricity &Magnetism

Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, Complete Breakdown of Intuition, Non-Conservative Fields

Lec17 Electricity &Magnetism

Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking

Lec18 Electricity &Magnetism

Displacement Current (Difficult Concept), Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors, Secret Top, How does it work?

Lec19 Electricity &Magnetism

Vacation Special
How do magicians levitate women? (with demo)

Electric Shock Treatment (no demo)

Electrocardiogram (with demo) - Pacemakers
Superconductivity (with demo)- Levitating Bullet Trains
Aurora Borealis

Lec20 Electricity &Magnetism

Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy

Lec23 Electricity &Magnetism

Review Exam 2

Lec22 Electricity &Magnetism

Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton
Maxwell's Equations
600 Daffodils

Lec21 Electricity &Magnetism

Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism,Prize Ceremony of Motor Contest

Lec23 Electricity &Magnetism

Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits

Lec25 Electricity &Magnetism

Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)

Lec26 Electricity &Magnetism

Traveling Waves, Standing Waves
Musical Instruments

Lec27 Electricity &Magnetism

Resonance, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light,
Radio, TV, Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers

Lec28 Electricity &Magnetism

Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector,
Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)

Lec29 Electricity &Magnetism

Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygen's Principle,
The Illusion of Color, The Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo

Lec30 Electricity &Magnetism

Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, Polarization by Reflection and Scattering, Why is the sky blue, Why are sunsets red?

The sun will set in the lecture hall!

Lec32 Electricity &Magnetism

Review Exam 3

Lec31  Electricity &Magnetism

Rainbows (Take Notes)
A Modest Rainbow will appear in the lecture hall!
Fog Bows, Supernumerary Bows, Polarization of the Bows, Haloes around the Sun and Moon, Coronae, Glories, Mock Suns (Sun Dogs)

Lec33 Electricity &Magnetism

Double-Slit Interference, Interferometers

Lec34 Electricity &Magnetism

Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution, Human Eye - Telescopes

Lec36 Electricity &Magnetism

Farewell Special

Lec35 Electricity &Magnetism

Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Cosmology

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