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Physics 8B - (Barsky)

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This study guide is tailored to Physics 8B with Professor Barsky and contains lecture notes, practice problems, and old exams with step-by-step solutions.

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Electric Fields

1. Lecture notes & videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Turning around in E
  • Projectile Motion Through E
  • Plastic Plate & Charged Ball
  • Balancing Act
  • Plastic Balls & Fur
  • Five Point Charges
  • Three Point Charge Distribution
  • Square Configuration of Point Charges
  • Charged Plate & Point Charge
  • Drawing Field Lines
  • Semicircular Charged Ring
  • Charged Circular Ring
  • Pair of Charged Rings
  • Semicircle with Non-Uniform Charge Density
  • Two Half Rings of Charge
  • Uniformly Charged Rod of Finite Length
  • Charged Disk
  • Two Electric Dipoles
  • Dipole Moment of Three Point Charges
Gauss's Law

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • About Electric Flux
  • Conductor Properties
  • Infinite Wire of Unknown Charge
  • Two Concentric Insulators
  • Infinite Slab of Charge
  • Insulating Slab Sandwiched by Conductors
  • Three False Statement
  • Spherical Off-Center Cavity
  • Concentric Conducting Shells
  • Long Wire Inside a Metal Tube
  • Spherical Metallic Shell
  • Charged Sphere & Conducting Shell
  • Cylinder with Cavity
  • Sphere with Cavity
  • Charged Wire and Point Charge
  • Charge Hanging from a String
  • Force Between Two Parallel Rods
Electric Potential

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Electrostatics of Three Point Charges
  • Connecting Spheres
  • E & V of Three Charges
  • Force from Charged Spheres
  • Connecting Two Conducting Spheres
  • Potential of an Infinite Cylinder
  • Two Concentric Shells
  • Electric Potential of Cylinders
  • Potential of a Spherical Shell
  • Thin Non-Uniformly Charged Rod
  • Washer of Charge
  • E and V of an Insulating Sphere
  • Ring with Opposite Densities
  • Four Point Charges
  • Large Plate Attracting a Ball of Charge
  • Two Charged Particles
  • Electrostatic Oscillator
  • Two and Three Point Charges
  • Charged Plastic Ball
  • Shooting an Electron
  • Shooting an Electron Toward a Capacitor
  • Work and Potential Energy
  • Equilibrium of Point Charges
  • Dipole Field on Axis
Capacitors

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Conceptual Questions About Capacitors
  • Sequence with Parallel Plates
  • Charge Moving in a Capacitor
  • Miscellaneous Capacitor Questions
  • Charge Traveling Between Parallel Plates
  • Charged Pinned by a String
  • Electrons & Protons in a Capacitor
  • Study of a Parallel-Plate Capacitor
  • Cylindrical Capacitor
  • Spherical Capacitor
  • Capacitor and Capacitance
  • Dielectric Slab & Energy Storage
  • Storing Charge in Capacitors
  • Equivalent Capacitance
  • Four Capacitor Network
  • Capacitance of a Cap. Network
  • Connecting Two Capacitors
DC Circuits

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Brightness of Bulbs
  • Three Resistors, Three Batteries
  • Circuit with Bulbs
  • Power Supplied or Consumed
  • Ranking Voltages in a Circuit
  • Two Loops & a Shared Resistor
  • Simple Circuit
  • Blowing a Fuse
  • Equivalent Resistance
  • Neither Series nor Parallel
  • Two Circuits
  • Circular Pan Resistor
  • Cylindrical Resistors
  • Charge & Energy in Capacitors
  • Power & Charge
  • Behavior of Capacitors
  • Resistors & Capacitors
  • Two RC Circuits
  • Equivalent Capacitor & Resistor
  • Multiple Rs and Cs
  • Charging a Capacitor
  • RC Circuit with a Switch
  • Current Resistance and RC Circuit
Midterm 1 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2022 Fall M1
  • 2024 Fall M1
Magnetism

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Linear Motion Through E and B
  • Charge Moving Between Wires
  • Two Vertical Wires
  • Charged Wire and Moving Charge
  • Twirling Through E and B
  • Mass Spectrometer
  • Traveling Through B
  • Forces on a Current
  • Two Parallel Wires
  • Three Parallel Wires
  • Forces on a Rectangular Loop
  • Two Sheets of Currents
  • B-Field Created by Three Wires
  • Coaxial Cable
  • Hollow Cylindrical Conductor
  • Slab of Current
  • Infinite Hollow Wire
Induction

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Jumping Ring
  • Loop Traveling Through B
  • Tilted Coil
  • Number of Coils of a Square Loop
  • Rectangular Loop Straddling a Varying B
  • Flux from a Solenoid
  • Shrinking Loop
  • Induction in a Zinc-Chromium Loop
  • Two Rods with Different Speeds
  • Moving a Blue Rod on Rails
  • Rod on Non-Parallel Rails
  • Rod on Rails
  • Rod on Vertical Rails
  • Two Rods on Rails
  • Rod on Rails with Friction
  • Rod Sliding on Triangular Rods
  • Current Through an RL Circuit
  • RL Circuit Behavior
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Currents
  • Two Competing Inductors
  • LR Circuit
  • Simple RL Circuit
  • Behavior of an Inductor with Time
Electromagnetic Waves

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Electromagnetic Wave
  • EM Waves Questions
  • Intensity of a Plane EM Wave
  • Fields of an EM Wave
  • Satellite Signal
  • Radio Antenna
  • Electromagnetic Wave
  • Light Shined Through Polarizers
  • Polarized Light & Polarizers
  • Polarized Light From a Laser
  • Two Polarizers in Series
  • Three Polarizers in Series
  • Optimizing Three Polarizers
  • Lasers and Polarizers
Optics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Reflection Off of Various Surfaces
  • Reflections Off of a Corner Mirror
  • Reflection & Refraction with Flint
  • Transmission and Reflection of Laser Light
  • Ice Fishing
  • Ray Tracing
  • In and Out of a Prism
  • Light Traveling Through a Prism
  • Square Room
  • Optical Fiber
  • Refraction in a Crystal Ball
  • Maximum and Minimum Angles
  • Concave Mirror
  • Diverging Lens
  • Image by a Concave Mirror
  • Mobile Converging Lens
  • Finding the Object from the Image
  • Unknown Lens
  • Myopic Biologist
  • Vision Defect in the Human Eye
  • Combining a DV Lens and a CV Lens
  • Combining a DV Lens and a CV Mirror
  • Combining Flat-Sided Lenses
  • Image of a Candle on the Wall
  • Candle, Mirror, and Lens
  • Unknown Optical Device
  • Alien Eyeball
  • Image of a Candle
  • Two Lenses
  • Candle, Mirrors, Lenses
Midterm 2 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2022 Fall M2
  • 2024 Fall M2
Interference & Diffraction

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Red Light, Blue Light
  • Photon Interference vs. Electron Diffraction
  • Delaying Light with a Plastic Slab
  • Delaying Light
  • Alien Skin Interference
  • Interference with Blue and Orange Light
  • Film Interference with Blue and Orange Light
  • Thin Soap Film
  • Of Thin Films
  • Wedge Interferometry
  • Thinning Soap Film
  • Thinning Vertical Soap Film
  • Observing a Thin Oil Layer
  • Diffraction with Blue and Orange Light
  • EM Waves and Diffraction
  • Airy Disk
  • Double Slit Interference in Different Media
  • Diffraction in Air and in Fluid
  • Autopsy of a Giant Alien
  • Resolving Traffic Lights
  • Christmas Lights
Quantum Physics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Of Sodium
  • Calcium & Photoelectric Effect
  • About the Photoelectric Effect
  • The Photoelectric Effect
  • Photoelectric Effect in Cs & Al
  • Mysterious Metal and Photoelectric Effect
  • Photorefractive Keratectomy
  • Excited States of Hydrogen
  • Hypothetical Atom
  • Hypothetical Multi-Electron System
  • Hydrogen Lamp and Spectrum
  • Transitions in a Hypothetical System
  • Electron Diffraction
  • Kinetic Energy of Particles
  • Sunlight & Photons
  • Double Slit Interference with Electrons
  • Single-Slit Diffraction with Electrons
  • Wave-Particle Duality of Electrons
  • Bohr’s Theory
  • Alternate Bohr Model
  • Electron in an Infinite Potential Well
  • Infinite Potential Well with an Electron
  • Alien Vision
  • Finite Potential Well
  • Excited Particle in a Potential Well
  • Miscellaneous Quantum Questions
  • Quantum Questions
Final Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2024 Fall Final

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