IB Physics

Electricity

Chapter 16, 17 Syllabus

Block

Class

Due on this class

1

Sept

6/7

•Get textbooks

•Electric Charge

•Coulomb’s Law

•Electrostatics: Insulators, Conductors

Read: 16.1-5

 

2

Sept

10/11

•Induced Charge

•Stupid Van de Graaff tricks

•Arrays of charges: Linear

•Charge on conductors/Van de Graaff/Lightning Safety

•Course Policy/Teaching/Research ideas

Check: (16#1): 1-9, Gen. Prob. 41,42[1]

Read: 16.6

3

Sept

12/13

•Arrays of charges: Vectors

•Course Policy/Teaching/Research ideas

Check: (16#2): 10,11,15-20, Gen. Prob. 45,48

 

4

Sept

14/17

•Electric Field

•Electric Field addition: Vectors again

 

Check: (16#3): 12-14, Gen. Prob. 49,46,47,53,54

Read: 16.7-9

5

Sept

18/19

•Voltage and Electric Field

•Electron Volts

•Millikan prep – Numerical analysis

Check: (16#4): 21-39, Gen. Prob. 43,44,50,51,52, 55,56

Read: 17.1-4, 10

6

Sept

20/21

•Voltage due to point charges: Not a vector

Quiz 16

Check:  (17#1):1-12, Gen. Prob. 54

Turn In: PS 16: (4 stamps)

Read: 17.10

7

Sept

24/25

•Millikan prep –Formulas

•Cute voltage problems

 

Check: Millikan Prep

Read: 17.10

8

Sept

26/27

•Equipotential lines

•Field Lines and conductors

•CRT problems

Check: (17#2): 13-18, Gen. Prob. 56,63

9

Sept 28

Oct 1

Quiz 17

•More CRT problems

Check: (17#3): 19-23, Gen. Prob. 58,64

Read: 17.5,10

Turn In: PS 17: (3 stamps)

10

Oct

2/3

•Millikan Lab – write up/particulars/how to

•Work on electric field mapping lab/Millikan prep

Turn In: Millikan Prep

 

11

Oct

4/5

•Electric Field Mapping lab

•Work on labs

Check: AP #1-2

12

Oct

8/9

•Work on labs

Check: AP #3

13

Oct

10/11

•Work on labs

Check: AP #4

14

Oct

15/16

•Work on labs

 

15

Oct

17/22

Test on Chapters 16 and 17

Turn In: AP problems: (3 stamps)

Turn In: Electric Field mapping lab

16

Oct

23/24

Currents and circuits

Turn In: Millikan lab

 



[1] Spend about 30 minutes on homework between classes.  If you are bored, try the more challenging problems, and if you are struggling, do the easier ones.  You are not expected to do all the problems.  Don’t waste your time doing problems that are too hard or too easy.