Notes:

• The syllabus is available (in PDF) here.
• Click here to go to the TAU online course schedule.
• The lecturer is Dr. Rennan Barkana: web page, e-mail: barkana@post.tau.ac.il, phone: 640-5993, office: Kaplun 111. The weekly office hour is Sunday 15:00 - 16:00, but you may come at other times (It is best to set up an appointment).
• One TA is Mr. Nir Raz (raznir@post.tau.ac.il, 640-7452, Kaplun 510). To get to Nir's office, take the elevator up to the 4th floor of Kaplun, then take a right until you see stairs going up to your right. Go up the stairs and at the end turn right, go through the door and Nir's room will be on your right, number 510. His mailbox is on the 4th floor of Kaplun, left of the elevator, box number 31.
• The second TA is Mr. Tom Shemesh (toms@post.tau.ac.il, 640-7863, Medical Faculty Building 601A). His office hours are: Sunday 14:15 - 15:15, Monday 16:15 - 17:15.
• The textbook is "Physics" by Kane & Sternheim, 3rd edition. We will cover chapters 16, 17, 19, and 20.
• The actual lecture time is 14:10 - 15:00 and 15:10 - 16:00 (Tuesdays, Lev Auditorium, near the Physics building).
• To view PDF, download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free here.
• Note: You always have at least a week to complete and submit an exercise after it is posted on this website.
• Final Exam: June 19 (A), August 15 (B).
  Bring to the exam a simple calculator (Non-graphical).
• This year's Exam A questions available here as a Doc file.
• Final Exam Materials: Formula pg. 1, Formula pg. 2, Formula pg. 3. Note: These GIFs look better when saved and opened with a graphics application instead of an Internet browser.
  Short question examples available here.
  Last year's Exam A Solution available here.
• Magnetic Birds: article available here.
• Submission Records in PDF (final-updated): Nir's groups, Tom's groups.
• Please Fill Out The Computerized Course Survey (15/5 - 4/6) here. Your input is very important to me. This year I went much slower than last year, showed more physics demonstrations, and I introduced to the website the post-lecture versions of the lecture notes.
• Exercise submission requirements: It was written in the syllabus that all exercises must be submitted in order to get the full exercise grade (which is 10% of the course grade). We have decided that only 10 exercises must be submitted in order to get the full exercise portion of the grade. Exercise #11 is an optional exercise, and may be submitted by those who did not submit all of the first ten. Anyone who submitted 6 exercises or less will receive 0 in the exercise grade. Note that exercise submission is *not* required in order to take the exams.
• We have decided that part of the final lecture will not be on the exam. Faraday's and Lentz's laws may appear on the exam as qualitative questions. However, there will not be specific applications of Lentz's law where you have to figure out the direction of the induced current.
  Example exam questions: 1) If I move a magnet towards a loop of metal wire, what happens? What happens if I break the loop into two pieces and then move the magnet? Answer: When the magnet is moved, the magnetic field near the loop changes with time. Faraday's law says that a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. If there is a metal loop in this area, a current will begin to flow in the loop. If the loop is broken, and there is no closed loop, then the electric field will still appear but there will be no current.
  2) Explain in general terms how an electrical generator works. Answer: A generator converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. For example, water is collected in a dam and made to fall a large distance. The rushing water turns a big turbine or waterwheel which is connected to a wire loop in the field of a strong magnet. As the loop turns, Faraday's law implies an electric field which drives a current in the loop. This loop is then connected to the electricity grid and provides electrical energy.
• NEW: Note that in the exam, you can use any formula from the three formula pages that you are given. However, if you remember and use another formula from the course material, you must either prove it, or, if the proof is long, you must at least supply a partial proof, including an indication of how the formula can be proven.
• NEW: Additional exercises from last year's Moed B and Moed C.

Lecture Date	Topic	Sections in Kane & Sternheim	Lecture (PDF)	Recitation	Exercise	Solution
22/Feb/2005	Introduction, Coulomb's Law	16.1 Review: Ch. 1-3	Lecture 1 Post-Notes	Recitation 1 Notes	Exercise 1	Solution 1
01/Mar/2005	Electric Fields, Electric Flux	16.2, 16.3	Lecture 2 Post-Notes	Recitation 2 Notes	Exercise 2	Solution 2: pdf, doc
08/Mar/2005	Gauss's Law	16.3	Lecture 3 Post-Notes	Recitation 3 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 3	Solution 3: pdf
15/Mar/2005	More Gauss's Law, Conductors	16.3	Lecture 4 Post-Notes	Recitation 4 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 4: pdf, doc	Solution 4: pdf
22/Mar/2005	Work and Energy, Electric Potential	16.4, 16.5 Review: Ch. 6	Lecture 5 Post-Notes	Recitation 5 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 5: pdf, doc	Solution 5: pdf
29/Mar/2005	Equipotential Surfaces, Capacitors	16.5, 16.8, 16.10	Lecture 6 Post-Notes	Recitation 6 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 6: pdf, doc	Solution 6: pdf, doc
05/Apr/2005	Electric Current, Resistance, Electric Circuits	17.1, 17.2, 17.3	Lecture 7 Post-Notes	Recitation 7 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 7: pdf, doc	Solution 7: pdf, doc
12/Apr/2005	Power, Resistors in Series and in Parallel	17.3, 17.4, 17.5	Lecture 8 Post-Notes	Recitation 8 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 8: pdf, doc	Solution 8: pdf, doc
19/Apr/2005	Kirchhoff's Rules, RC Circuits	17.6, 17.7	Lecture 9 Post-Notes
03/May/2005	More RC Circuits, Magnetic Fields	17.7, 19.1	Lecture 10 Post-Notes	Recitation 9 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 9: pdf, doc	Solution 9: pdf, doc
10/May/2005	The Magnetic Force, Cyclotrons	19.2, 19.11 Review: Sec. 4.1, 5.1, 5.10	Lecture 11 Post-Notes Cyclotron: fast , slow	Recitation 10 Notes: pdf, doc	Exercise 10: pdf, doc	Solution 10: pdf, doc
17/May/2005	Magnetic Fields and Currents	19.3, 19.9, 19.4	Lecture 12 Post-Notes	Recitation 11 Notes: pdf	Exercise 11: pdf, doc (optional)	Solution 11: pdf, doc
24/May/2005	Sources of the Magnetic Field	19.7, 19.8	Lecture 13 Post-Notes
31/May/2005	Faraday's Law, Final Comments	20.1, 20.5	Lecture 14 Post-Notes