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8.022 :: Electricity and Magnetism

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Physics
Physics II (8.022) — Electricity and Magnetism — Spring 2008

CALENDAR —last updated 05/11/2008

FEBRUARY
M
Tu
W
Th
F
FEB 4 FEB 5
First Day of Classes
Recitations
FEB 6
Lecture 1: Electrical Charges and Forces

Purcell 1.1-1.4
FEB 7
Recitations
 

FEB 8

Lecture 2: Electric field

Purcell 1.7, 1.8

pset 1 due 5PM

FEB 11
Lecture 3: Electrostatic potential
Purcell 1.5-1.6, 2.1-2.6

FEB 12
Recitations
 
FEB 13
Lecture 4: Gauss' Law
Purcell 1.9-1.14
FEB 14
Recitations

Lab 1 signup

FEB 15

Lecture 5: Applications of Gauss' Law

Purcell 2.7-2.16

pset 2 due 10AM

FEB 18
PRESIDENT'S DAY
NO CLASSES
FEB 19
MONDAY SCHEDULE!
Lecture 6:
Two of the Maxwell Equations
Purcell 1.15, 2.10-2.16, 3.1-3.2
Lab #1 7-9PM, 32-082
FEB 20
Lecture 7:
Conductors and Sparks
Purcell 3.3-3.4

 

Lab #1 7-9PM, 32-082
FEB 21
Recitations
 

 

FEB 22
Lecture 8:
Capacitors
Purcell 3.5-3.8

pset 3 due 10AM

REVIEW SESSION 4PM-6PM, in 4-331.

FEB 25
*QUIZ 1*

(in class)

 
FEB 26
Recitations
FEB 27
Lecture 9:
Insulators
Purcell 10.1-10.8, 10.11, 10.12
 
FEB 28
Recitations

FEB 29

Lecture 10:
Currents
Purcell 4.1-4.4

MARCH
M
Tu
W
Th
F
MAR 3
Lecture 11:
Ohm's Laws
Purcell 4.4-4.9

pset 4 due 10AM

MAR 4
Recitations

MAR 5
Lecture 12:
Electric Circuits
Purcell 4.10-4.11
MAR 6
Recitations

MAR 7

Lecture 13:
Magnetism
Purcell 5.1-5.2, 6.1, 6.9
Add date
MAR 10
Lecture 14: Magnetic Forces and Fields
Purcell 5.2, 6.1, 6.9
pset 5 due 10AM
MAR 11
Recitations

MAR 12
Lecture 15: Ampere's Law
Purcell 6.2-6.6
 
MAR 13
Recitations
 

 

MAR 14

Lecture 16: Faraday's Law
 
Purcell 7.1-7.5

 

MAR 17
Lecture 17: Uses of Induction
Purcell 7.1-7.6

pset 6 due 10AM

MAR 18
Recitations


MAR 19
Lecture 18: Inductance

Purcell 7.6-7.10

MAR 20
Recitations
 
Lab 2 Signup

MAR 21

Lecture 19: RLC Oscillators

Purcell 8.1

 

MAR 24
SPRING BREAK
MAR 25


MAR 26
 
MAR 27
 
MAR 28
         
APRIL
M
Tu
W
Th
F

MAR 31

pset 7 due 10AM

Lecture 20: Driven Oscillators

Purcell 8.2-8.3

Lab #2 7-9PM, 32-082

 

APR 1

Recitations
 
 
Lab #2 6-8PM, 32-082

APR 2

Lecture 21: Impedance, Filters
Purcell 8.4-8.5

 

APR 3
Recitations
 

APR 4

Lecture 22: Resonance, Power, Phase
 
APR 7
Lecture 23: Magnetic materials
Purcell 11.1-11.7
pset 8 due 10AM
APR 8
Recitations

APR 9
* QUIZ 2 *

(in class)

APR 10
Recitations
APR 11
Lecture 24: Magnetic materials (cont'd)

Purcell 11.1-11.7, 11.11


APR 14
Lecture 25: Maxwell's equations

Purcell 9.1-9.3

APR 15

Recitations
APR 16
Lecture 26: EM Waves
Purcell 9.4-9.6
APR 17
Recitations
 
 

APR 18

Lecture 27: Light is an EM Wave

Purcell 9.4-9.6

 

APR 21
VETERANS' DAY
NO CLASSES
 
APR 22
VETERANS' DAY
NO CLASSES


APR 23
Lecture 28: Momentum of light
pset 9 due 10am
APR 24
Recitations
 
Drop date
APR 25
Lecture 29: EM Radiation

Purcell App. B

 

APR 28
Lecture 30: Scattering

 

pset 10 due 10AM
APR 29
Recitations
 
APR 30
Lecture 31: Scattering and Polarization
MAY 1

Recitations

Lab 3 signup

MAY 2

Lecture 32: Relativity 1

Purcell, App. A

 

MAY
M
Tu
W
Th
F
     
 

 

MAY 5
Lecture 33: Relativity II (Lorentz transformations)

Purcell 5.3-5.9

Lab #3 7-9PM, 32-082

pset 11 due 10AM

MAY 6
Recitations

Lab #3 7-9PM, 32-082
MAY 7
Lecture 34: Relativity III (physics in spacetime)
Purcell 6.7-6.8, 9.7
MAY 8
Recitations

MAY 9

Lecture 35: Relativity IV (transformation of EM fields)

pset 12 (short) due 5 PM

MAY 12
Lecture 36: Relativity V (relativistic electrodynamics)
MAY 13
Recitations
 
MAY 14
Lecture 37: Superconductivity

Purcell App. C

MAY 15

Recitations

LAST DAY OF CLASSES
MAY 16

MAY 19

 

FINAL EXAM
Johnson Ice Rink Monday, May 19
9:00AM - 12:00NOON
 
MAY 20
FINALS WEEK
MAY 21
FINALS WEEK
MAY 22
FINALS WEEK
MAY 23
FINALS WEEK