Spring 2026

PHYS 121 Honors: Electricity and Magnetism

Lecture 3 [Feb 4]: More Electric Fields

Lecture 10b [Apr 8]: More Sources of Magnetic Fields

Lecture 11b [Apr 22]: More Faraday's Law

Lecture 1 [Jan 21]: Introduction to PHYS 114

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

Lecture 12 [Feb 27]: Jenny Jump Lidar and CSTR Research

Lecture 13 [Mar 4]: Covariance, Correlation, and Independence

Lecture 14 [Mar 6]: Chi2 Probabilities and Linear Correlation Coefficient Probabilities

Lecture 15 [Mar 11]: Fitting the Curve

Lecture 16 [Mar 13]: LTI Systems

Lecture 17 [Mar 25]: Convolution 101

Lecture 18 [Apr 1]: Exam 2 Review

Lecture 19 [Apr 8]: Exam 2

Lecture 20 [Apr 10]: Back to and Review of LTI systems

Lecture 21 [Apr 15]: Convolution Theorem and Windowing

Lecture 21 [Apr 17]: Intro to Filters (bandstop, bandpass, LPF, HPF, etc.)

Lecture 21 [Apr 22]: FIR and IIR Filters

Lecture 29 [Apr 29]: SOFDI

Lecture 30 [May 1]: Space Weather