Physics 6    

Spring 2004

Christian Enss

Mon 1/28
VdG
Rods, board
Conducting sphere and proof plane
Three electroscopes
Conservation of charge
Balloon

Fri 1/30
" Conservation of charge
" VdG wig, soap bubbles, parts
" Ping Pong Clatterer
" High and Low discharge needles

Mon 2/2
High-low Discharge needles and VdG
Efield of dipole
Torque on a dipole

Wed 2/4
Repeat Torque on a dipole
Electric Field Lines.

Friday 2/6
Gauss' Law

Mon 2/9
VdG with Flourescent tube lamp.
Faraday cage and radio.

Wed 2/11
VdG w High/low discharge needles and lightning rod.

Fri 2/13
Big bang Capacitor
Demo cap
Cap and lamp
Vdg and High-low discharge

Mon 2/16
Series and Parallel capacitors

Wed 2/18
" Demo cap with dielectric 
" Repeat Series parallel big and small caps with the big bang cap

Fri 2/20
different resistors with power, ammeter, voltmeter

Mon 2/23
holiday

Wed 2/25

fri 2-27 for Mon 3-1
circuit puzzler

Wed 3/3
RC Flasher
RC square wave

Fri 3/5
exam

Mon 3/8
Begin magnetism:
• Old Crooke's Tube (phosphor screen) and Magnet
• Current coil to deflect crooke's beam.
• 2 bar magnets on rotating stands
• Static electricity rods and fur, compass not deflected.
• Magnet and electroscope not deflected.

Wed 3/10
• Torque on a loop
• Big magnet, coil w ps, Newton Scale
• E/M

Fri 3/12
• Torque on a loop
• jumping wire
• current wire compass, filings,

Mon 3/15
parallel current wires

Wed 3/17
• coil, mag, galvo
• Long solenoid and Hall Probe
• Two solenoids and filings
• Jumping ring, cut ring, LN
• Flip Coil gaussmeter, radar magnet, camera
note: may be few minutes late. airport.

Fri 3/19
• repeat mag, coil, galvo
• nib and tube
• Eddy pendulum, LN!! 
• Monday Back emf, red coil, AC 
neon lamp, switch 

Monday 
- LR bulb and coil
- Parallel series inductor

Wed 3/24
LR circuit square wave
LR bulb, switch
neon back emf
jacob's ladder
welding nails
coil in coil, ps, switch, galvo

Fri 3/26
paramag
diamag
ferromag (faraday effect)
suprecondcutor is (diamag)
curie

Mon 4/5
no class

Wed 4/7
exam review. no demo. He will discuss Maxwell's equations and the displacement current.
note: Discuss with him how to demo the magnetic field of the displacement current.

Fri 4/9
exam.

Mon 4/12
• Non-Driven Ringing in an RLC tank circuit with variable resistor
• Response of a pure resistive voltage divider to a sine wave
• 
• Driven Tuned LC tank circuit, show different phases of L and C at resonance.

Wed 4/14
• Both Wave machines
• Hoot tube
• Driven Tuned LC tank circuit, show V leads L (ELI) and V lags
C (ICE)
• Long spring with stool and small book to be lifted by the wave.
• EM dipole xmtr and rcvr

Fri 4/16
Video: Tacoma Narrows (5 mins.)
Crossed polaroids

Mon 4/19
BB optics mirrors
parabolic and hot dog.
Real image bulb and penny

Wed 4/21
refraction tank

Fri 4/23
Single slit diffraction and double slit 
interference
Ripple tank with one slit
White light and Prism dispersion

Mon 4/26
Single photon and
photoelectric effect

Wed 4/28
Electron Diffraction

Fri 4/30
STM at start of class.