Cuesta College :: Physics 205B :: Spring 2020
Calendar Policies Goals Grades

Monday 
(No class--Washington's Birthday)


Laboratory 
(No lab--Washington's Birthday)


Wednesday 
"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
     --Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), "Remarks," Josh Billings: His Works, Complete, 
       G. W. Dillingham, New York, 1888 (p. 304).

Quiz 2 worksheet questions (*.pdf)

Chs. 26.12-26.13: Compound Microscopes, Telescopes (*.blog)
     Converging lens ray tracings (*.swf), (*.gif)
          (PCCL, select "ray diagram" option)
     Ex: angular magnification of a microscope (*.blog)
     Ex: reconstruction of Galileo's telescope (*.blog)

Quiz 3 worksheet questions (*.pdf)



Thursday 
Check Twitter announcements: #CuestaPhys205B
Review previous reading assignment responses (*.blog)
Read Physics, 11/e, Ch. 27.1
Preview online presentation (*.blog)

Ch. 26 Problem 91

Physics quiz question: reading glasses used as simple magnifier (*.blog)
Physics quiz question: microscope eyepiece used as simple magnifier (*.blog)
Physics quiz question: microscope objective lens focal length (*.blog)
Physics quiz question: telescope angular magnification (*.blog)
Physics final exam problem: telescope construction (*.blog)

Due 12:00 AM before start of next class
     Reading assignment 8 (*.html)
     Homework report 8 (*.html)