PHYS 1012 Exam Topics and Practice Problems - 2022

General Stuff

• All Readings and Practice Problems are from University Physics
  - Volume 2 for Electricity, Magnetism, and Thermodynamics
  - Volume 3 for Optics
• You may find the Equation Sheet helpful.
• Problems labelled "CYU" refer to "Check Your Understanding" problems in the text

Topics and Practice Problems

• Topics: Electric Charge, Electric Field, Electric Force, Electric Field Lines
• Readings: Volume 2 - 5.1-5.4, 5.6
• CYU: 5.2, 5.3
• Problems: CH 5: 1,9,19,23,25,31,37,45,53,59,69,71,79,101
  
  
• Topics: Electric Dipole, Electric Field due to Continuous Charge Distributions
• Readings: Volume 2 - 5.7, 5.5
• CYU: 5.6
• Problems: CH 5: 115,105,95; CH 7: 13
  
  
• Topics: Electric Flux, Gauss' Law
• Readings: Volume 2 - 6.1-6.4
• CYU: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6
• Problems: CH 6: 1,3,5,7,11,37,21,27,31
  35 (this is a classic question which makes use of symmetry to get the answer, do not try to do the explicit calculation using the integral)
  
  
• Topics: Electric Potential
• Readings: Volume 2 - 7.1-7.3
• CYU: 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8
• Problems: CH 7: 3,5,7,23,29,31,33,35,37,47,51,73
  
  
• Topics: Fields and Potentials, Equipotential Surfaces
• Readings: Volume 2 - 7.4-7.6
• CYU: 7.11, 7.12
• Problems: CH 7: 17,19,21,59,63
  
  
• Topics: Current and Resistance, Power
• Readings: Volume 2 - 9.1-9.5
• CYU: 9.4, 9.8
• Problems: CH 9: 1,3,13,17,21,23,25,29,33,41,51,53,55,79
  
  
• Topics: DC Circuits, Kirchoff's Laws
• Readings: Volume 2 - 10.1-10.3, 9.5
• CYU: 10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.7
• Problems: CH 10: 1,3,21,23,35,37,41,43,79,85
  
  
• Topics: Capacitors
• Readings: Volume 2 - 8.1-8.4
• CYU: 8.1, 8.2, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
• Problems: CH 8: 1,3,9,19,23,25,27,33,34,43,49,51,53,69,71
  
  
• Topics: RC Circuits
• Readings: Volume 2 - 10.5
• Problems: CH 10: 49,51,57,69,75
  
  
• Topics: Magnetic Force, Hall Effect
• Readings: Volume 2 - 11.1-11.4, 11.6
• CYU: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.6
• Problems: 11.3, 11.5, 11.15, 11.17, 11.19, 11.21, 11.23, 11.25, 11.27. 11.31, 11.33, 11.35, 11.53, 11.59, 11.61, 11.67, 11.79
  
  
• Topics: Magnetic Fields
• Readings: Volume 2 - 12.1-12.3, 12.6
• CYU: 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.7
• Problems: 12.5, 12.7, 12.11, 12.23, 12.25, 12.31, 12.33, 12.49, 12.51, 12.53
  
  
• Topics: Magnetic Dipole, Torque
• Readings: Volume 2 - 11.5, 12.4, 12.7
• CYU: 11.4, 12.5
• Problems: 11.39, 11.41, 11.45, 11.47, 12.15, 12.19, 12.21, 12.35, 12.37, 12.61
  
  
• Topics: Ampere's Law
• Readings: Volume 2 - 12.5
• Problems: 12.11, 12.41, 12.42 12.43
  
  
• Topics: Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
• Readings: Volume 2 - 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
• CYU: 13.1, 13.2, 13.4, 13.5
• Problems: 13.1, 13.3, 13.5, 13.7, 13.9, 13.11, 13.13, 13.15, 13.17, 13.25, 13.27, 13.31, 13.35, 13.39, 13.41, 13.43
  
  
• Topics: Induced Electric Fields
• Readings: Volume 2 - 13.4
• CYU: 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9
  
  
• Topics: Inductance
• Readings: Volume 2 - 14.1, 14.3, 14.5
• CYU: 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.6, 14.7, 14.10
• Problems: 14.21, 14.25, 14.35, 14.37, 14.65
  
  
• Topics: AC Circuits
• Readings: Volume 2 - 15.1
• CYU: 15.1, 15.2 and 15.3 (do these using the complex representations), 15.4, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8
• Problems: 15.1, 15.3, 15.19 (reactance is the magnitude of the complex impedance), 15.29, 15.37
  
  
• Topics: Optics - Reflection, Refraction, Disperson
• Readings: Volume 3 - 1.1-1.5
• CYU: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
• Problems: 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.31, 1.35, 1.39, 1.43, 1.53, 1.59
  
  
• Topics: Interference
• Readings: Volume 3 - 3.1-3.3
• CYU: 3.1
• Problems: 3.5, 3.17, 3.21, 3.31, 3.53
  
  
• Topics: Diffraction
• Readings: Volume 3 - 4.1, 4.3-4.6
• CYU: 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
• Problems: 4.1, 4.9, 4.13, 4.17, 4.19, 4.41, 4.55, 4.59
  
  
• Topics: Thermodynamics - Temperature and Heat Transfer
• Readings: Volume 2 - 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6
• CYU: 1.3, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9
• Problems: 1.3, 1.13, 1.19, 1.65, 1.97
  
  
• Topics: Phase Changes, Ideal Gas
• Readings: Volume 2 - 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4
• CYU: 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2
• Problems: 1.15, 1.21, 1.25, 1.73, 1.77, 1.87, 2.17, 2.21, 2.25, 2.27, 2.35, 2.39, 2.49
• ^*Problem 14.49 (from inductance chapter 14) requires knowledge of energy stored in an inductor
  
  
• Topics: First Law of Thermodynamics, Thermodynamic Processes
• Readings: Volume 2 - 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
• CYU: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
• Problems: 3.23, 3.25, 3.31, 3.37, 3.41, 3.47, 3.57
  
  
• Topics: Heat Capacities, Adiabatic Process
• Readings: Volume 2 - 2.3, 3.5, 3.6
• Problems: 2.57, 2.59, 2.61, 3.61, 3.65, 3.71, 3.75
  
  
• Topics: Second Law, Entropy
• Readings: Volume 2 - 4.1, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7
• CYU: 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
• Problems: 4.43, 4.45, 4.49, 4.51, 4.55, 4.63