Projects & Practices in Physics — E&M

Notes

Week 1: Charges, Electric Field & Electric Potential

  1. Math Review
  2. Electric Interaction
  3. Electric Field of a Point Charge
  4. Electric Potential of a Point Charge
  5. Relating Electric Potential to Electric Field

Week 2: Charges & Superposition

  1. Charges and Matter
  2. Charging and Discharging
  3. Superposition
  4. Dipole Superposition Example
  5. Making Models with VPython
  6. Common Commands and Tips for Python
  7. Superposition and the Computer

Week 3: Electric Force & Energy

  1. Review of Forces
  2. Electric Force
  3. Review of Energy
  4. Electric Potential Energy
  5. Relationships between Force, Field, Potential, and Energy

Week 4: Modeling Distributions of Charge

  1. Electric Field and Potential for Lines of Charge
  2. dQ and the $\overset{\rightarrow}{r}$
  3. Lines of Charge Examples
  4. Distributions of Charges
  5. Patterns in the Electric Field

Week 5: Modeling Moving Charges & Batteries

  1. Modeling Moving Charges
  2. Batteries
  3. Surface Charges around a Circuit
  4. Surface Charge Gradients

Week 6: Resistors & Combinations of Resistors

  1. Defining Current
  2. Current in Wires
  3. Resistors in Circuits
  4. Energy around the Circuit
  5. Resistors and Conductivity
  6. Resistors in Series
  7. Resistors in Parallel

Week 7: Combinations of Resistors (Part 2)

  1. Using Loop and Node Rules to Solve Circuits
  2. Larger Combinations of Circuit Elements

Week 8: Capacitors & Combinations of Capacitors

  1. Charging and Discharging Capacitors
  2. Capacitors in a Circuit
  3. Capacitors in Series
  4. Capacitors in Parallel

Week 9: Magnetic Field from a Moving Point Charge

  1. Magnetic Interaction
  2. Moving Charges Make Magnetic Fields
  3. The Right Hand Rule

Week 10: Magnetic Field of a Wire

  1. Superposition
  2. Currents Make Magnetic Fields

Week 11: Sources of Magnetic Fields

  1. Using Superposition of Magnetic Field and the Computer
  2. Shapes of Wires and Magnetic Fields
  3. Permanent Magnets
  4. Magnetic Forces in the Real World
  5. Magnetic Force on Moving Charges
  6. Path of a Charge through a Magnetic Field

Week 12: Magnetic Force

  1. Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire
  2. Summary of Magnetic Fields and Force

Week 13: E&M so far, Flux, & Short Cuts

  1. What happens when Magnetic Fields Change?
  2. Changing Magnetic Flux
  3. The Curly Electric Field and Induced Current
  4. Finding the Induced Current Direction
  5. Putting All of Faraday's Law Together

Week 14: Induction

  1. Induction Graphs
  2. Changing Magnetic Fields with Time
  3. Changing Flux from an Alternating Current
  4. The Electric Field