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Physics 8B (UC Berkeley)

Semester: Summer 2012
Section 109 –
DIS TR 10-12 – 111 LeConte
LAB MW 10-12 – 205 LeConte
Mai’s office hour: Tuesday 12-2 pm – 101 LeConte

Notes:

I. Basic Electricity & Magnetism
Right Hand Rule (applicable to both Electricity and Magnetism)
Summary on Chapter 20 and 21
Electrostatics
Biot-Savart Law
Magnetic force between 2 wires, Dipoles, and Ampere’s law
Solenoid and Hall effect

II. Circuits
Series vs. Parallel circuits
RC circuit & Kirchhoff laws
RC circuit

III. Optics
Notes on Mirrors and Lenses
Multiple Optics Algorithm and multiple optics illustration by Austin Hedeman.
Interference
Solution to problems in the note “Interference”

IV. Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics & Nuclear Physics
special-relativity
SR-QM-NP

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Reviews and old exams for practice (from various GSIs and professors):
— Midterm 1:
GSIs’ Reviews:
Review session 10/01/2011 – Topics included: Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s law, Electric field, Potential difference, Potential energy, Capacitance.
Review problem set 1Solution
Another review problem set
Review from Kevin GrosvenorSolution

Previous Exams:
Buehler – Summer 2012 with solutions
Midterm 1 practice (Spring 2011)Solution
8B Fall 09 Bordel ExamSolution
8B Fall 08 DeWeese Exam
Midterm 1.1 Fall 11 FajansSolution
Midterm 1.2 Fall 11 FajansSolution

— Midterm 2:
GSIs’ Reviews:
Cory Schillaci’s reviewSolution
“Zepplin” review
Practice exam 1 with formula sheet (no solution)
Practice exam 2 (with solution)
Practice exam 3 with formula sheet (no solution)
Practice exam 4 (with solution)
Austin Hedeman’s reviewSolution
Complex number and AC circuitsolution
Zach Travis’s reviewsolution

Previous Exams:
Buehler – Summer 2012 – Midterm 2 with solutions
Midterm 2 (Spring 2011)
Another old Midterm 2 (Spring 2011) with solution
8B Fa09 MT2 Bordel ExamSolution
Midterm 2.1 Fall 2011 FajansSolution
Midterm 2.2 Fall 2011 FajansSolution

— Final:
Buehler – Summer 2012 Final (not cumulative) with solutions
Buehler – Summer 2011 Final (cumulative, multiple choice)
Practice final
Final Spring 2011
Fajans Final Fall 2011

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I will not put the entire Workbook to avoid copyright infringement, but here are the solutions to some selected worksheets or problems:

Solution for Worksheet 3 – The answer to 9d is off by a factor of 2, so here’s the correct solution with more explanation: solution for Problem 9 of WS3
Solution for WS5

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