PHYS 201
Fundamentals of Physics II
Undated
Topics
- Electrostatics
- Electric Fields
- Gauss's Law I
- Gauss's Law and Application to Conductors and Insulators
- The Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy
- Capacitors
- Resistance
- Circuits and Magnetism I
- Magnetism II
- Ampere's Law
- Lenz's and Faraday's Laws
- LCR Circuits — DC Voltage
- LCR Circuits — AC Voltage
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves I
- Midterm Exam
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves II
- Ray or Geometrical Optics I
- Ray or Geometrical Optics II
- Wave Theory of Light
- Quantum Mechanics I: Key Experiments and Wave-Particle Duality
- Quantum Mechanics II
- Quantum Mechanics III
- Quantum Mechanics IV: Measurement Theory, States of Definite Energy
- Quantum Mechanics V: Particle in a Box
- Quantum Mechanics VI: Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
- Quantum Mechanics VII: Summary of Postulates and Special Topics
- Final Exam
Readings
- Fishbane, Paul M., Stephen Gasiorowicz, and Stephen T. Thornton. 2005. Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics , 3rd Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Serway, Raymond A., and John W. Jewett, Jr. 2008. Physics for Scientists and Engineers , 7th Edition, Part II. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole. Wolfson, Richard and Jay Pasachoff. 1998. Physics with Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers , 3d ed. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Company. Recommended math supplement: Shankar, Ramamurti. 2003. Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students . New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.