Day Topics Reading Due

Monday

Sep 30

Introduction to Paradigms

SWBQ activity

Intro lecture

Homework hints

Small group roles

Website information

GVC Unit 1

Tuesday

Oct 1

Pretest

Give pretest activity

Superposition with point charges

Potential of a point charge SWBQ activity

Superposition lecture

Small group quadrupole activity

Visualizing potentials activity

Visualization with Mathematica

GEM 2.3.1

GVC

Wednesday

Oct 2

Distance between two points

Star Trek activity

Law of cosines lecture

Charges away from the origin

Dot products

GEM 1.1

GVC

Homework 1 due

(solutions)

Thursday

Oct 3

Power series

Lecture

Power series activity

Power series to memorize

Approximations using power series

Lecture

Power series in Mathematica activity

Power series with Mathematica

GVC Unit 2

Friday

Oct 4

Superposition of discrete sources

Charge away from origin lecture

Two point charges

Near and far limits lecture

Two point charges activity

GVC

Homework 2 due

(solutions)

Monday

Oct 7

Two point charges, continued

Solutions to two point charges

Two points summary lecture

Tuesday

Oct 8

Curvilinear coordinates

Curvilinear lecture

Integrating charge densities

Acting out charge densities activity

Integral lecture

Surface and volume elements activity

Surface and volume elements in curvilinear coordinates activity

Total charge

Total charge activity

Total charge handout

GEM 1.4

GVC Unit 3

GEM 1.3

Wednesday

Oct 9

Superposition of continuous sources

Vector arrows reminder lecture

Pumpkin lecture

On integral notation

Finite line lecture

GVC Unit 4

Homework 3 due

(solutions)

Thursday

Oct 10

The ring

Ring potential activity

Finite line in plane lecture

Friday

Oct 11

Charges that extend to infinity

Infinite line lecture

Vector fields

Vector fields lecture

Vector fields

GVC

Homework 4 due

(solutions)

Monday

Oct 14

Quantifying change

Introduction to gradients lecture

Curvilinear basis vectors activity

dr vector lecture

Gradient lecture

Navigating a hill

GEM 1.2

GVC Unit 5

Tuesday

Oct 15

Electric and gravitational fields

GEM 2.1

GVC Unit 6

Wednesday

Oct 16

Fields of continuous distributions

GEM 2.1.4

Homework 5 due

Thursday

Oct 17

Electrostatic energy

GEM 2.4

GVC Unit 7

Friday

Oct 18

Review

Equation sheet for final

GVC Review

Homework 6 due