2025 - 2026 Fall Semester

PHYS 132 - Course Description Details

 CH: Chapter,

Sect: Sections

Week

Dates

Topics covered

1

29 September

3 October

CH 21:  Electric Charge

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments (Sect 1,3)

2

6 – 10 October

CH 22:  Electric Field

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments (Sect 2,4)

3

13 – 17 October

CH 23: Gauss Law

QUIZ 1

(CH 21-22)

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law (Sect 1,3)

4

20 – 24 October

CH 24: Electric Potential

QUIZ 2(CH 23)

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law (Sect 2,4)

5

27 – 31 October

CH 25: Capacitance

 

No laboratory due to holiday

6

3 – 7 November

CH 26: Current and Resistance

QUIZ 3(CH 24)

Laboratory 2: Equipotential and Electric Field Lines (Sect 1,3)

7

10 – 14 November

CH 27: Circuits

QUIZ 4(CH 25)

Laboratory 2: Equipotential and Electric Field Lines (Sect 2,4)

8

17 – 21 November

 

CH 28: Magnetic Fields

 

QUIZ 5

(CH 26-27)

Laboratory 3: Parallel and Series Combination of Resistors (Sect 1,3)

9

24 - 28 November

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents 

 

Midterm Exam (CH 21-27)

November 28, 2025 Friday 13:30

Laboratory 3: Parallel and Series Combination of Resistors (Sect 2,4)

10

1 – 5 December

 

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

QUIZ 6(CH 28)

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 1,3)

11

8 – 12 December

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

 

QUIZ 7(CH 29)

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 2,4)

12

15 – 19 December

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 8(CH 30)

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 1,3)

13

22 – 26 December

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 9(CH 31)

Make-up Exam(Midterm)

December 26, 2025 Friday 13:30

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 2,4)

14

29 December

2 January

CH 32: Maxwell’s Equations

CH 33: Electromagnetic Waves

QUIZ 10

(CH 32)

 

MAKE UP 

(all sections)

 

5 - 18 January

Final Examination :  January 9, 2026 Friday 10:00

 

 

Make-up Examination(Final):  January 19, 2026 Monday 15:00

 

 

Resit Examination: (For Students Who Have Enrolled In 2015 and Before, and Have a Term-Based Curriculum)