Course Goals
- Student Learning Outcomes--after successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Describe and quantify geometric and physical behavior of light.
(E.g., model image formation by lenses, or interference/diffraction by slits.)
- Describe and quantify behavior of electric forces, fields,
potential energy, and potentials. (E.g., given certain materials, or configuration of point charges, apply superposition to find net result at a certain location.)
- Describe and apply conservation laws of current and potentials to circuits. (E.g., given circuit with ideal/non-ideal emfs, resistors, capacitors, switches, determine currents and potential differences.)
- Describe and quantify behavior of magnetic forces, fields, fluxes,
and induction. (E.g., given configuration of current-carrying wires/loops, determine resulting forces, induced emfs, or induced currents on other objects, or in time-varying circuits.)
- Describe and quantify phenomena in modern (post-19th century) physics such as
relativity, atomic physics, nuclear physics, etc. (E.g., describe why certain systems demand non-classical models, and be able to quantify behaviors of these systems.)
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