PHY100S - The Magic of Physics - Class 8 - Wednesday February 1, 2006

Announcement

Pre-Class Quiz #3 is marked and loaded into STORM. The class average was 96%. Well done!

The following student numbers do not correspond to any records in the STORM database for this course:

993356702 994383165 992233025 991343694

Particularly these students, but everybody should check STORM to insure that your mark on the quiz is entered and correct. Problems should be directed to April Seeley, afternoons in MP129.

Today's Class

Today we deferred discussion of §9.3 until next class, but finished Chapter 8 and the other three sections of Chapter 9 listed in the syllabus.

Chapter 9

We used a simple Flash animation in our introduction to fields.
We also used this Flash animation in discussing the field of an oscillating electric charge.
This animation shows the electric and magnetic fields of an oscillating charge.
This animation, from the University of Colorado, shows the spectrum of hot bodies.

Other Class Materials

We asked a question in class, available via the button. Separate window. Virtually the entire class correctly answered 3. Is transmitted at the speed of light. In-Class Questions on speed and acceleration
Here is today's Journal file in pdf format. Separate window. today's journal
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