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Week 1 |
- Principle of Relativity
- Time Dilation and Length Contraction
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Week 2 |
- Lorentz Transformation
- Spacetime Geometry
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- HW #2
- 1-11, 2-4, 3-4,
3-5, 3-7, 3-10
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Week 3 |
- Relativistic Mechanics
- 4-Momentum
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- HW #3
- L-6, L-7, L-8,
L-10, L-11, 5-2, 5-3
- Pick Up Quiz #1
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Week 4 |
- 4-Force, Apparent Effects
- General Relativity
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Week 5 |
- Electric Field
- Gauss’s Law
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- HW #5
- 3-15, 7-10, 8-14,
8-15, 8-16, 8-41
- Pick up Quiz #2
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Week 6 |
- Electric Potential
- Divergence
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- Quiz #2 Due
- HW #6
- Purcell 1-4, 9,
16,19, 26, 30
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Week 7 |
- Curl, Stokes' Theorem
- Electrostatics
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- HW #7
- Purcell 2-1, 4,
8, 13, 15, 16, 27
- Pick Up Quiz 3
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Week 8 |
- Capacitance
- Electric Currents and Conduction
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- Quiz #3 Due
- HW #8
- Purcell 2-31, 3-1,
4, 8, 29
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Week 9 |
- DC Circuits
- Fields of Moving Charges
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- HW #9
- Purcell 3-10, 11,
24, 4-4, 7
- Pick Up Quiz #4
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Week 10 |
- Force on Moving Charges
- Read: 5.8, 5.9 & Appendix A
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- Quiz #4 Due
- HW #10
- Purcell 4-16, 18,
19, 22, 32
- Pick Up Final Exam
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Questions or Comments? Email phys1@cco.caltech.edu
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