Lecture #1:
What holds our world together?
Electric Charges (Historical)
Polarization
Electric Force
Coulomb's Law
Recorded on 02/06/02 |
Lecture #19:
Vacation Special
How do Magicians levitate women?
(with demo)
Electric Shock Treatment (no demo)
Electrocardiogram (with demo)
Pacemakers
Superconductivity (with demo)
Levitating Bullet Trains
Aurora Borealis
Recorded on 03/22/02 |
Lecture #2:
Electric Field
Field Lines
Superposition
Inductive Charging
Dipoles
Induced Dipoles
Recorded on 02/08/02 |
Lecture #20:
Inductance
RL Circuits
Magnetic Field Energy
Recorded on 04/01/02 |
Lecture #3:
Electric Flux
Gauss's Law
Examples
Recorded on 02/11/02 |
Lecture #21:
Magnetic Materials
Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism
Prize Ceremony of Motor
Contest
Recorded on 04/03/02 |
Lecture #4:
Electrostatic Potential
Electric Energy
eV
Conservative Field
Equipotential Surfaces
Recorded on 02/13/02 |
Lecture #22:
Hysteresis
Electromagnets
Bohr Magneton
Maxwell's Equations
600 daffodils
Recorded on 04/05/02 |
Lecture #5:
E = -grad V
More on Equipotential Surfaces
Conductors
Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday
Cage)
Recorded on 02/15/02 |
Lecture #23:
Review Exam 2
Recorded on 04/08/02 |
Lecture #6:
High-Voltage
Breakdown
Lightning
Sparks - St. Elmo's Fire
Recorded on 02/19/02 |
Lecture #24:
Transformers
Car Coils
RC Circuits
Recorded on 04/12/02 |
Lecture #7:
Capacitance
Field Energy
Recorded on 02/20/02 |
Lecture #25:
Driven LRC Circuits
Resonance
Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport)
Recorded on 04/15/02 |
Lecture #8:
Polarization
Dielectrics
The Van de Graaff
More on Capacitors
Recorded on 02/22/02 |
Lecture #26:
Traveling Waves
Standing Waves
Musical Instruments
Recorded on 04/19/02 |
Lecture #9:
Currents
Resistivity
Ohm's Law
Recorded on 02/25/02 |
Lecture #27:
Resonance
Destructive Resonance
Electromagnetic Waves
Speed of Light
Radio - TV
Distance Determinations using Radar
and Lasers
Information about the Tacoma Narrows
Bridge Collapse
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html
http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html
Recorded on 04/22/02
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Lecture #10:
Batteries
EMF
Energy Conservation
Power
Kirchhoff's Rules
Circuits
Kelvin Water Dropper
Recorded on 02/27/02 |
Lecture #28:
Index of Refraction
Poynting Vector
Oscillating Charges
Radiation Pressure
Comet Tails
Polarization (Linear, Elliptical,
and Circular)
Recorded on 04/24/02 |
Lecture #11:
Magnetic field
Lorentz Force
Torques
Electric Motors (DC)
Oscilloscope
Recorded on 03/01/02 |
Lecture #29:
Snell's Law
Refraction
Total Reflection
Dispersion
Prisms
Huygens's Principle
The Illusion of Color
The Weird Benham Top
Land's Famous Demo
Recorded on 04/26/02 |
Lecture #12:
Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)
Recorded on 03/04/02 |
Lecture #30:
Polarizers
Malus's Law
Brewster Angle
Polarization by Reflection and
Scattering
Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets
red?
The sun will set in the
lecture hall!
Recorded on 04/29/02 |
Lecture #13:
Moving Charges in B-fields
Cyclotron
Synchrotron
Mass Spectrometer
Cloud Chamber
Recorded on 03/08/02 |
Lecture #31:
Rainbows
A modest rainbow will appear
in the lecture hall!
Fog Bows
Supernumerary Bows
Polarization of the Bows
Halos around the Sun and the Moon
Mock Suns
Recorded on 05/01/02 |
Lecture #14:
Biot-Savart Law
Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields
Revisit the "Leyden Jar"
High-Voltage Power Lines
Recorded on 03/11/02 |
Lecture #32:
Review Exam 3
Recorded on 05/03/02 |
Lecture #15:
Ampere's Law
Solenoids
Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper
Midterm Evaluation
Recorded on 03/13/02 |
Lecture #33:
Double-Slit Interference
Interferometers
Recorded on 05/08/02 |
Lecture #16:
Electromagnetic Induction
Faraday's Law
Lenz Law
Complete Breakdown of Intuition
Non-Conservative Fields
Recorded on 03/15/02 |
Lecture #34:
Gratings
Resolving Power
Single-Slit Diffraction
Angular Resolution
Human Eye
Telescopes
Recorded on 05/10/02 |
Lecture #17:
Motional EMF
Dynamos
Eddy Currents
Magnetic Braking
Recorded on 03/18/02 |
Lecture #35:
Doppler Effect
The Big Bang
Cosmology
Recorded on 05/13/02 |
Lecture #18:
Displacement Current (Difficult
Concept)
Synchronous Motors
Induction Motors
Secret Top, How
does it work?
Recorded on 03/20/02 |
Lecture #36:
Farewell
Special
Bring a Friend!
Recorded on 05/15/02 |
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