Jeff Lachniet

Office: 115 NaPPRF Building
            1021 W. 47th Street (one block east of Main Campus)
            (Ring doorbell & someone will let you in...)
            (757) 683-3647

Contact e-mail: lachniet (insert-symbol-here) physics.odu.edu
 

Course Information:

• Lectures: Physics and Oceanography Building,  Room 200, MWF 2:00-2:50pm
• Textbook: Young and Geller, Sears and Zemansky's College Physics, 8th edition
• New Office Hours: Monday 3-4pm, Physics Learning Center
                                 Tuesday 2-3pm, Physics Learning Center
                                 Wednesday 3-4pm, Physics Learning Center
                                 Other times by appointment

• Syllabus
  
• Homework Website: MasteringPhysics, Course ID: LACH112NS08
• Test #1: Friday, February 15
• Revisions to syllabus
• Test #2: Friday, March 28
• Test #3: Friday, April 25
  
• Final Exam: Friday, May 2, 12:30pm -3:30pm (official date)
  

Reading Assignments and Class Events:
Week 1 (Jan 14-20) Chapter 17 "Electric Field and Electric Charge"
Week 2 (Jan 21-27) Chapter 18 "Electric Potential and Capacitance"
Week 3 (Jan 28- Feb 3) Chapter 19 "Current, Resistance, and DC circuits"
Week 4 (Feb 4- 10) Chapter 20 "Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force"
Week 5 (Feb 11- 17) Test #1 (Feb. 15), Chapter 21 "Electromagnetic Inductance"
Week 6 (Feb 18- 24) Go over Test #1, continue Ch 21.
Week 7 (Feb 25- Mar 2) Finish Ch 21, Chapter 1 "Models, Measurements and Vectors"
Week 8 (Mar 3- 9) Chapter 23 "Electromagnetic Waves"
Week 9 (Mar 10- 16) Spring Break.
Week 10 (Mar 17- 23) Finish Chapter 23
Week 11 (Mar 24- 30) Chapter 24 "Geometric Optics", Test #2 (March 28)
Week 12 (Mar 31- Apr 6) Go over Test #2, finish Ch 24 & selected topics from Chapter 25
Week 13 (Apr 7- 13) Chapter 26 "Interference and Diffraction"
Week 14 (Apr 14- 20) Chapter 27 "Special Relativity"
Week 15 (Apr 21- 27) Chapter 28 "Photons, Electrons and Atoms", Test #3
Week 16 (Apr 28- May 2) Go over Test #3, classes end Monday, April 28, Final exam May 2

Lecture Notes:
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Vector Review
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Test #2 Review
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Test #3 Review

Homework Solutions:
Assignment 1 (Chapter 17)
Assignment 2 (Chapter 18)
Assignment 3 (Chapter 19)
Assignment 4 (Chapter 20)
Assignment 5 (Chapter 21)
Assignment 6 (Vector Review)
Assignment 7 (Chapter 23)
Assignment 8 (Chapter 24)
Assignment 9 (Chapter 26)
Assignment 10 (Chapter 27)