2025 - 2026 Spring Semester

PHYS 132 - Course Description Details

 CH: Chapter,

Sect: Sections

Week

Dates

Topics covered

1

16 - 20 February

CH 21:  Electric Charge

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments

(Sect 1,3,5,7,9,11)

2

23 - 27 February

CH 22:  Electric Field

Laboratory 0: Measuring Instruments

(Sect 2,4,6,8,10,12)

3

2 – 6

March

CH 23: Gauss Law

QUIZ 1

(CH 21-22)   

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law (Sect 1,3,5,7,9,11)

4

9 – 13

March

CH 24: Electric Potential

QUIZ 2 (CH 23)

Laboratory 1: Ohm’s law 

(Sect 2,4,6,8,10,12)

5

16 – 20

March

CH 25: Capacitance

 

Laboratory 2: Equipotential and Electric Field Lines (Sect 1,3,5,7)

Sect 9&11 on March 27, Friday, 13:20-15:10, and on other possible lab sessions(Please see the announcement)

 

6

23 – 27

March

CH 26: Current and Resistance

QUIZ 3 (CH 24)

Laboratory 2: Equipotential and Electric Field Lines (Sect 2,4,6,8,10,12)

7

30 March

3 April

CH 27: Circuits

QUIZ 4 (CH 25)

Laboratory 3: Parallel and Series Combination of Resistors (Sect 1,3,5,7,9,11)

8

6 – 10

April

 

CH 28: Magnetic Fields

QUIZ 5 (CH 26)

Laboratory 3: Parallel and Series Combination of Resistors (Sect 2,4,6,8,10,12)

9

13 – 17

April

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents 

QUIZ 6 (CH 27)

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 1,3,5,7,9,11)

10

20 – 24

April

 

CH 29 :Magnetic Fields due to Currents

Midterm Exam (CH 21-27)

April 24, 2026 Friday 13:45

Laboratory 4: Construction and analysis of various circuits

(Sect 2,4,6,8,12)

Sect 10 on May 14, Thursday, 11:20-13:10

11

27 April

1 May

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

 

QUIZ 7 (CH 28)

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 1,3,5,7,9)

Sect 11 on May 15, Friday 09:20-11:10

12

4 – 8

May

CH 30: Induction and Inductance

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 8 (CH 29)

Laboratory 5: RC Circuits (Sect 2,4,6,8,10,12)

13

11 – 15

May

CH 31: Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

QUIZ 9 (CH 30)

Make-up Exam(Midterm)

May 15, 2026 Friday 13:45

Lab 4 Make up for Sect 10 on May 14, Thursday, 11:20-13:10

Lab 5 Make up for Sect 11 on May 15, Friday 09:20-11:10

MAKE UP 

(all sections)

14

18 – 22

May

CH 32: Maxwell’s Equations

CH 33: Electromagnetic Waves

QUIZ 10 (CH 31) 

MAKE UP 

(all sections)

 

1 - 14 June

Final Examination :  June 3, 2026 Wednesday 10:00

 

 

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

 

 

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