PHYSICS 221 --- (Comprehensive Physics I)

Physics 221 (CRN #:60507)

Dr. David Meier

Announcements:

Exam IV --- in finals period [Monday 12/9 @ 1:30pm in Cramer 239]
All late assignments due 12/6
Class friday morning is optional

General Information:

Lecture:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 10:00-10:50p [Workman 109]

Recitation:
Wednesday: 14:00-15:55p [Workman 109]

David Meier
Office Hours [Workman 359]:
Monday: 11:00-12:00
Tuesday: 14:00-15:30
Thursday: 14:00-15:30

or by appointment
email: david.meier@nmt.edu

Syllabus

Textbook (Volume I, ed. 2)

Lecture Topics:

Week 1: Syllabus / Math Tutorial / Intro to Waves

Chp 1 Summary - [due 8/23]
HW: Chapter 1 [due 9/13]

Week 2: Superposition / Dispersion Relations; Strings / Sound Waves

HW: Chapter 1 [due 9/13]

Chapter 1 notes

Week 3: Academic Holiday / Ocean Waves / Light Waves

HW: Chapter 1 [due 9/13]
Chp 2 Summary - [due 9/11]

Week 4: Michelson Interferometer / Other Interferometers; Thin Films / 3D Waves

HW: chp 2: 1, 2 (D_2 * D_3), 4, 7ab, 10, 11, 15 [due 9/23]
Chp 2 Summary - [due 9/11]

Week 5: Young's Double Slit / Diffraction Grating / (Single-slit) Diffraction

Chp 3 Summary - [due 9/20]
HW: chp 2: 1, 2 (D_2 * D_3), 4, 7ab, 10, 11, 15 [due 9/23]

Chapter 2 notes (Updated)

Week 6: Fermat's Principle of Least Time; Law of Reflection and Refraction / Total Internal Reflection; Lensmaker's Equation / Imaging

HW: chp 3: 1, 2, 4, 5ab, 6ab, 7 [due 9/30]
Chp 4 Summary - [due 10/02]

Week 7: Principle of Relativity; Inertial Reference Frames / Michelson & Morley; Length Contraction / Time Dilation; Lorentz Transformations

HW: chp 3: 1, 2, 4, 5ab, 6a, 7 [due 9/30]
Chp 4 Summary - [due 10/02]

Week 8: Lorentz Transformations; Addition of Velocity / Space-Time Diagrams / STD geometry

HW: chp 4/5A Handout [due 10/14]
HW: chp 4/5B Handout [due 10/21]
Chp 5 Summary - [due 10/09]

Week 9: Wave 4-vector / Relativistic Waves; Doppler Effect; Relativity 'Paradoxes' / Academic Holiday

HW: chp 4/5A Handout [due 10/14]
HW: chp 4/5B Handout [due 10/21]
Chp 7 Summary - [due 10/21]

Week 10: Intro to Quantum Mechanics; Planck's Radiation Law / Photoelectric Effect; Bohr - de Broglie Atom / Bragg & Electron Diffraction

HW: chp 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13 [due 11/8]

Week 11: Feynman 2-slit Experiment / Relativity + Quantum Mechanics / Energy & Momentum in Relativity-Quantum Mechanics

HW: chp 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13 [due 11/8]
Chp 8 Summary - [due 11/4]

Week 12: Conservative Forces; Newtonian Mechanics from Quantum Mechanics / QM of Free Particles; Particle in Infinite Box / Particle in Finite Box; Correspondence Principle

HW: chp 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13 [due 11/8]
HW: chp 8: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 [due 11/13]
Chp 9 Summary - [due 11/8]

Week 13: Particle in Finite Box; Quantum Tunnelling / Systems of Particles; Rockets / Inelastic Relativistic Collisions

HW: chp 8: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 [due 11/13]
HW: chp 9: 9.3, 9.5, 9.7 [read 9.4 and 9.6 for background], 9.8, 9.10, 9.11, 9.13 [due 11/18]
Chp 12 Summary - [due 11/25]

Week 14: Elastic Relativistic Collisions / Compton Effect / Quantum Angular Momentum

Chp 12 Summary - [due 11/25]
HW: chp 9: 9.3, 9.5, 9.7 [read 9.4 and 9.6 for background], 9.8, 9.10, 9.11, 9.13 [due 11/18]
HW: chp 10-11 handout [due 12/2]

Week 15: Spin; Addition of Angular Momentum / Harmonic Oscillation /Academic Holiday

Chp 12 Summary - [due 11/25]
HW: chp 10-11 handout [due 12/2]

Week 16: Driven & Damped Oscillations / Assessment / Recitation; Review

HW: chp 10-11 handout [due 12/2]
HW: chp 12: 3, 4, 6, 7ab [due 12/6]

Color scheme: assign. currently due, late assign. --- can be turned in, late assign. --- unable to be turned in