OUTLINE FOR SPRING 2000:

Week	Date	Reading	TOPIC(s)
1.	4 Jan.	Web site	Waves - SHM in space and time
			simple derivation of the wave equation
		$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 1	"Hot Rubber Band"
2.	10 Jan.	Ch. 13	water waves, vibrating strings
		Ch. 14	sound waves, beats
		Ch. 14	Doppler effect
3.	17 Jan.	$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 2	Skit: "The Dreams Stuff is Made of"
		Web site	" Quantum Mechanics in a 1-D Nutshell"
		Ch. 35, 36	"From the Bohr atom to the Planck length"
4.	24 Jan.	Ch. 10,18,19	Action at a Distance - why invent a "field"?
		Web site	Symmetric Conservation - Gauss' law for $\vec{g}$ & $\vec{E}$
			More fun with Gauss' law
5.	31 Jan.	$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 3	"Double Scotch"
		Ch. 20	Potential vs. Capacity
		Ch. 21	"C & thee" - capacitance explored
6.	7 Feb.	Ch. 22	"R & I" - resistance vs. current
		Ch. 23	Kirchhoff's rules
		Ch. 23	"RC" - time constant in DC circuits
	14 Feb. $\heartsuit$	Spring Reading Break
7.	21 Feb.	Ch. 24	"I cross B" - the Lorentz force and why we invent $\vec{B}$
		Ch. 25	"Do $\vec{B}$, do $\vec{B}$, do!" - moving charges make $\vec{B}$ (Biot & Savart)
		Web site	"Link-the-Loop with symmetry" - using Ampère's law
			TRIUMF tour 24 Feb. 10:30-12:30
8.	28 Feb.
		Third (Spring) Physics Midterm 29 Feb. 9:30
		$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 4	T.B.A.
		(Bamfield 3-5 March)
9.	6 March	Ch. 26	"Don't change that flux!" - inductance, Faraday & Lenz
		$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 5	T.B.A.
			"Inductive logic" - defining, calculating and using L
10.	13 March	Ch. 28	LCR circuits & Alternating Current
		$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 6	T.B.A.
11.	20 March	Ch. 29	Maxwell's equations
		Web site	"Let there be light!" - EM waves
12.	27 March	Ch. 33	"Rainbow, rainbow!" - thin film interference
		Handout	"Phasors on stun" - 2 to N slit interference
13.	3 April	$\psi\,\!\!$1 Fun 7	T.B.A.
		Handout	Diffraction
	mid April	Physics Final Examination