--- title: Around Campus - General Physics II description: Around Campus - General Physics II image: https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hubfs/Image_005-Sep-29-2025-03-22-51-9900-PM.jpg --- [![Fitchburg State](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hubfs/FitchburgStateUniversity/logo.png)](http://www.fitchburgstate.edu/) [![burg-blog-logo-1](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/burg-blog-logo-1.png?width=238&height=113&name=burg-blog-logo-1.png)](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/) # Around Campus - General Physics II Posted by [Andy Cunningham](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/author/andy-cunningham) on September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM ![](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hubfs/Avatar2.jpg) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [Environmental, Geographic and Public Health Sciences](https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/academics/academic-schools/school-health-and-natural-sciences/environmental-geographic-and-public-health-sciences-department) Professor [Jiang Yu](https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/academics/faculty-profiles/jiang-yu) helps students map the magnetic field in her General Physics II course. This second-semester general college physics course consists of studies and applications of wave motions, sound, electricity, magnetism, light and optics. Typical topics include Coulomb's law, electric force and field, potential and capacitance, electric circuits, magnetic force and field, magnetic forces on moving charges, electric induction, laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and lenses, optical instruments, interference and diffraction of light. ![Image_007-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-3743-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_007-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-3743-PM.jpg?width=1489&height=968&name=Image_007-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-3743-PM.jpg) ![Image_001-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0584-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_001-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0584-PM.jpg?width=916&height=725&name=Image_001-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0584-PM.jpg) ![Image_002-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0496-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_002-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0496-PM.jpg?width=1057&height=805&name=Image_002-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0496-PM.jpg) ![Image_005-Sep-29-2025-03-22-51-9900-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_005-Sep-29-2025-03-22-51-9900-PM.jpg?width=741&height=512&name=Image_005-Sep-29-2025-03-22-51-9900-PM.jpg) ![Image_013-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0572-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_013-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0572-PM.jpg?width=1546&height=1031&name=Image_013-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0572-PM.jpg) ![Image_012-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0511-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_012-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0511-PM.jpg?width=1528&height=1031&name=Image_012-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0511-PM.jpg) ![Image_009-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0521-PM](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Image_009-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0521-PM.jpg?width=1295&height=876&name=Image_009-Sep-29-2025-03-22-52-0521-PM.jpg)   Topics: [Health and Natural Sciences](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/topic/health-and-natural-sciences), [Engineering Technology](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/topic/engineering-technology) ### Recent Posts ### Posts by Topic A-Z - 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