Cuesta College :: Physics 205B :: Spring 2020
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    Quiz 1
    Quiz 2
    Quiz 3
    Midterm 1
    Quiz 4
    Quiz 5
    Quiz 6
    Midterm 2
    Quiz 7
    Final Exam
    Summary


Quiz 3 Goals and Resources
[Cutnell/Johnson/Young/Stadler, Physics, 11/e, Chapters 27, 18]
[Quiz 3 worksheet questions (*.pdf)]
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Analyze and describe the constructive/destructive interference of two coherent waves from a phase difference due to source timing and/or path differences.
    • Understand how a phase shift is produced by a reflection off of a higher-n (slower) medium, in order to analyze constructive/destructive interference produced by thin films.
    • Understand how a phase difference is produced by an angle-dependent path difference, in order to analyze and describe constructive/destructive interference along maxima/minima angles produced by a double-slit.
    • Analyze and describe the behavior of a diffraction grating using concepts developed from a double-slit.
    • Analyze and describe diffraction (only up to the first minima angle) produced by a single-slit using Huygens' principle and the angle-dependent path differences along a line of wavelets.

    • Understand how excess electrons are transported in conductors and how bound electrons behave in insulators (induced/intrinsic polarization).
    • Understand how excess electrons can be transferred by rubbing, contact, grounding, and induction in conductors and insulators.
    • Analyze and describe the electric force on a charge, due to several point charges that lie along the same line using Coulomb's law, and the principle of superposition (vector addition).
    • Understand the relationship between the electric force on a point charge, and the electric field present at the location of that point charge.
    • Analyze and describe the electric field at a specific location, due to several point charges that lie along the same line using the definition of an electric field for a single point charge, and the principle of superposition (vector addition).
    • Understand how electric field lines are visualized for single point charges, dipoles, and other basic charge configurations.

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