Lecture notes

Physics 114, Fall 2006

Rick Matthews, Instructor

• Lecture 1, Introduction, beginning of Chapter 23
• Lecture 2, Chapter 23, part 1
• Lecture 3, Chapter 23, part 2
  • Supplement on E-field due to infinite line of charge
• Lecture 4, Chapter 24, Gauss's Law Part 1
• Lecture 5, Chapter 24, Gauss's Law Part 2.
  • Supplemental lecture 5.1: Gauss's law
  • Supplemental lecture 5.2: Conductors and Gauss's Law
• Lecture 6, Chapter 25, Electric Potential: Part 1.
• Lecture 7, Chapter 25, Electric Potential: Part 2.
  • Supplemental lecture 7.1: Conductors and Electric Potential
• Lectures 8 and 9, Chapter 26, Capacitors and dielectrics
• Lecture 11 -- tentative, Chapter 27, Conductors and resistance
• Chapter 28. Direct current circuits.
  • Supplemental Lecture: Applying Kirchoff's Laws
• Chapter 29. Magnetic fields.
• Test 1 cutoffs and feedback.
• Supplemental Lecture: The Hall Effect.
• Chapter 30. Sources of Magnetic Fields.
• Chapter 31. Faraday's Law of Induction.
  • Useful web site in motors, generators, speakers. Joe Wolfe, University of New South Wales.
• Chapter 32. Inductance.
• Chapter 33. AC Circuits.
  • Useful web site on AC circuits by Joe Wolfe. University of New South Wales
• Chapter 34. Electromagnetic Waves
• Chapter 35. The Nature of Light; Geometric Optics
• Chapter 36. Image Formation
  • Ray tracing tutorials
  • Interactive applet on lenses and mirrors
• Chapter 37: Interference
  • Video of single and multiple slit diffraction
• Modern Physics and Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Nuclear Physics
  • Potassium Iodide and Radiation Safety

• Physics 114 home page
• Home page of Rick Matthews
• Department of Physics
• Wake Forest University