Spring 2026
PHYS 121 Honors: Electricity and Magnetism
Lecture 1 [Jan 21]: Introduction to PHYS 121H/122
________________Class Syllabus
Lecture 2 [Jan 28]: Electric Fields
Lecture 3 [Feb 4]: More Electric Fields
Lecture 4 [Feb 11]: Gauss' Law
Lecture 6 [Feb 18]: Electric Potential
Lecture 7 [Feb 25]: Capacitance and Dielectrics
________________Common Exam 1 Review Session
PHYS 114: Data Reduction
Lecture 1 [Jan 21]: Introduction to PHYS 114
________________Class Syllabus
________________HWK 1 Demo Program
Lecture 2 [Jan 23]: ASCII vs. Binary, Python for HWK1
Lecture 3 [Jan 28]: Funding Agencies and Grants
Lecture 4 [Jan 30]: Common 'Statistical Terms' and PDFs
Lecture 5 [Feb 4]: Moment Generating Function and Some Common PDFs and Their Moments
Lecture 6 [Feb 6]: Estimators and Estimation Theory
Lecture 7 [Feb 11]: Biased vs. Unbiased Estimators
Lecture 8 [Feb 13]: Testing the Fit via Chi-2
Lecture 9 [Feb 18]: Review for Exam 1
Lecture 10 [Feb 20]: Exam 1
Lecture 11 [Feb 25]: Speed Enforcement: Radar vs. Lidar