Last updated 12/1/2010
| Date | Assignment (in your text- due the following class). |
| 8/23 and 8/25 | We will do a quick review of the introduction in your book on Monday.
Be sure you understand the Basic Equations given on
page xxxiv. You may have skipped angular momentum in your intro physics
course; dig out your old textbook and review that section.
Instructor notes on rotational motion. Instructor notes on: Waves. Turn in answers to the following on Wed:
Due Monday: questions 1,2,3,8,10,11,15,16,18 on page 19 and Problems 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 18, 21, 24 on page 20. Also do exercises 5.1, 5.3, 5.7 in Part 2 on the Quantum Physlet pages. |
| 8/30 |
Quiz.
We will discuss the notes on quantum mechanics. As examples I will go over the following pages on the Quantum Physlet simulations: 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 11.1, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2. Homework for Wed: Questions page 43 of text: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10. |
| 9/1 |
More discussion of chapter 2. As
examples I will go over the following pages on the Quantum Physlet simulations: 6.1, 6.2, 6.5,
6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 11.1, 11.4,
12.1, 12.2.
Homework for Wed: (no class Mon. = Labor Day) page 44 of text problems: 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14. Start reading chapter 3. |
| 9/8 |
Chapter 3. Notes on tunneling. Do
questions on page 73: 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14 and Problems on page 74:
1, 2. |
| 9/13 |
Quiz. Solutions of the hydrogen atom.
Finish Chapter 3 start Chapter 4. Page 74: Do problems 7, 10, 11, 12, 13. Do questions on page 104: 3, 5, 9, 12, 19, 20. Additional assignment: Find something interesting in Quantum Simulations and report on it. |
| 9/15 |
Looks like Chapter 4 has quite a bit of stuff; we probably won't get started on Chapter 5 till next Monday. On page 105 do questions 21, 22, 24, 25 and problems 2, 5, 7. |
| 9/20 |
Quiz. The Zeeman effect
and a little quantum
chemistry.
Homework: page 105 problems: 12, 14, 16. Read chapter 5. |
| 9/22 |
Summary of quantum
mechanics.
Chapter 5. Do questions on page 127: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18. So far I haven't been able to get to the Hartree-Fock applet so we may have to just move on to chapter 6. Wikipedia's verson of the graph of ionization energies. |
| 9/27 | Quiz. We are not going to spend much time on chapter 6. Here is an applet that explains lasers. Chapter 6. Do questions on page 142: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. |
| 9/29 |
Chapter 7. Do questions on page 183: 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19. Supplementary notes on the First and Second laws of
thermodynamics. A bit more detail on the second
law and some web sources
on the second law. |
| 10/4 | Quiz.
Chapter 7. Problems on page 184: 2, 6, 7, 16, 17, 27. Read chapter 8. |
| 10/6 | Chapter 8. Do questions on page 218: 2, 3, 4, 7, 14, 17, 21, 23, 25,
26.
Notes on quantum chemistry. Check the page for modern physics under Solid State Physics for other notes. Notes on the electric and magnetic properties of solids (dia/para/ferra magnetisim). |
| 10/11 | Quiz.
Homework: Problems on page 219: 1, 3, 6, 11, 26. Start reading Chapter 9. |
| 10/13 |
Chapter 9. Do questions on page 233: 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15.
I've decided we will skip chapter 10. Read this chapter from another book, electronic properties of solids, instead. |
| 10/18&20 |
Homework: You are writting brief
definitions of piezoelectric, thermoelectri, ferroelectric and
superconductivity to send to me electronically. We will discuss these
in class.
Read:
Homework: Read chapter 11. 1. Write a summary of how a MOSFET is made and what it is used for. 2. Give a discription of how transistor circuits can be used to make a logic gate (give an example). 3. Explain either how the data selector or the binary to decimal decoder works (shown in the handout on page 87). |
| 10/25 | class cancelled. Quiz postponed till next Monday. |
| 10/27 |
Chapter 11. Homework: Do questions on
page 303: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and Problems 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10,
11 14 on page 304.
Notes on Special Relativity. Notes on General Relativity and cosmology. You may want to download and play with: http://realtimerelativity.org/ New notes on the page for modern
physics. |
| 11/1 |
Chapter 12. More relativity. Quiz. |
| 11/3 | Chapter 12. Finish relativity. The latter part of this chapter (the Driac and Kline-Gordon equations) really falls under what I would call particle physics which we will start on Monday. Do questions on page 330: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 and Problems on page 331: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8. Start reading Chapter 13. |
| 11/8 | Chapter 13. Do questions on page 384: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 20,
21.
Notes on particle physics. Quiz. |
| 11/10 | Chapter 13. More particle physics.
Homework: I have sent you three articles by email. Write a short summary (paragraph) of each. |
| 11/15 | Quiz.
Finish particles. Read Chapter 14. Homework: Problems page 385: 1, 8. |
| 11/17 | Chapter 14. Do questions on page 414: 1, 2, 5, 6, 11.
Notes on Nuclear. Also see the page for modern physics. |
| 11/22 | Technially we have class on Monday (this is thanksgiving week). I will be in my office for questions. |
| 11/29 | I am moving the quiz to Wed. We will finish nuclear. This wiki article is pretty good on stellar evolution. |
| 12/1 | Last class. Last quiz. Hand out takehome final. Discuss final. |
| 12/8 |
Final due by 4:15PM. If you send it
electronically, please be sure I respond that I recieved it. |
