PHYS 132 - Course Description Details

 

CH: Chapter, Sect: Section

 

Week

Dates

Topics covered

 

1

30 September

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4 October

CH 21:  Electric Charge

No Laboratory

 

2

7 – 11 October

CH 22:  Electric Field

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments (Sect 1)

 

3

14 – 18 October

CH 23: Gauss Law

QUIZ 1

(CH 21-22)

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments (Sect 2)

 

4

21 – 25 October

CH 24: Electric Potential

QUIZ 2(CH 23)

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law (Sect 1)

 

5

28 October 

1 November

CH 25: Capacitance

QUIZ 3(CH 24)

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law (Sect 2)

 

6

4 – 8 November

CH 26: Current and Resistance

 

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

 

7

11 – 15 November

CH 27: Circuits

QUIZ 4(CH 25)

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

 

8

18 – 22 November

 

CH 28: Magnetic Fields

 

QUIZ 5(CH 26)

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

 

9

25 - 29 November

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents 

 

Midterm Exam (CH 21-27)

November 29, 2024 Friday 13:30

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

 

10

2 – 6 December

 

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

QUIZ 6(CH 27)

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 1)

 
 

11

9 – 13 December

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

 

QUIZ 7(CH 28)

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 2)

 

12

16 – 20 December

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 8(CH 29)

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 1)

 

13

23 – 27 December

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 9(CH 30)

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 2)

 

14

30 December

3 January

CH 32: Maxwell’s Equations

CH 33: Electromagnetic Waves

Make-up Exam(Midterm)

January 3, 2025 Friday 13:30

QUIZ 10(CH 31)

MAKE UP  (all sections)

 

 

6 - 19 January

Final Examination :  To be announced

 

 

 

Make-up Examination(Final):  To be announced

 

 

 

Resit Examination: To be announced

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