Physical Systems WINTER SCHEDULE
updated 4.Jan.99
Physical Systems 1998-99
with E.J. Zita
 
 
WEEKLY schedule      Text Abbreviations       WINTER overview      CAL schedule
 

Get your winter reading packet from Pam Udovich for $12.

 

First day of class: Tuesday 5.Jan.99 at 9:00 in Lab I Rm 1040

WEEKLY schedule. Meetings will occasionally happen in special places such as the Library or the Computer Center.  Consult the Syllabus  every Friday afternoon, for details.
 
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9:00-12:00 
Lab I Rm 1040 

Thermal & Modern Physics; Waves and Oscillations

10:00-1:00  

Seminars and workshops in Lab I Rm 1040 most weeks 

meet in the Homeroom (Lab II Rm 2242) or Computer Center on 6.Jan, 10.Feb., 10.Mar.

9:00-12:00 
Lab I Rm  1037 

Thermal & Modern Physics; Waves and Oscillations

occasional fieldtrips
1:00-3:00 
Lab I Rm 1040 

Lecture/discussion PREP 

(Zita has governance)

1:30-4:30 in the 
CAL (Lab II Rm 1223) or HOMEROOM 

Quantum, E&M, Stellar Interiors 
 

1:00-3:00 in Homeroom 

seminars and workshops 

(3-5: Zita has governance)

1:30-4:00 
Lab I Rm 1040 

Quantum, E&M, Stellar Interiors

1:00-3:00 
Lab I Rm 1040 
group work 

1:30-2:30:  office hours

(4-5:  Philosophy Contract in Homeroom)
Mornings (Thermal & Modern Physics; Waves and Oscillations):
    Karen, Caylin, Jennifer, Tommy, Craig, Christopher, Greg, Seth

Afternoons (Quantum mechanics and Electrodynamics)
     Karen, Caylin, Jennifer, Tommy, Craig, Christopher, Greg, Seth, (Jeffrey)


Text abbreviations:

EM = David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics
QM = David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Tipler = Paul A. Tipler, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol.3:  Modern Physics, QM, Relativity, and the Structure of Matter
    and Ch.15-17 + 32 in Reading Packet
KK=Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal Physics
Star Trek = Lawrence Krause, Physics of Star Trek
Harding = Sandra Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? in Reading Packet
Barad = Karen Barad, A feminist approach to teaching quantum physics, in Reading Packet
Chen = Francis F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics, in Reading Packet
PP = Physics and Philosophy, by Werner Heisenberg
Alice - Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore
Galison = How Experiments End, by Peter Galison

Continuing texts from fall
BO=Barger and Olsson, Classical Mechanics
G=Grossman, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations
HK=Hanson and Kawaler, Stellar Interiors
Day=Robert A. Day, Scientific English
Universe = Kaufmann + Freedman, Universe
 

WINTER OVERVIEW
This is a draft, used to construct the actual SYLLABUS.
 
Waves,  Modern, Thermal
mathematics
E&M, Quantum, Stellar
Project Tutorials
Seminar
BO 1.7-1.9 damped, driven harmonic oscillator, circuits  (#) 2d order DiffEq (G.10.7-9)  (#) EM 5.1 :  Lorentz force and Electrostatics, EM review  (#) q/m ratio wkshp Star Trek
T 15:  Wave equation 
#17, 19, 29, 108
EM 1:  vector analysis  (#) T 32:  Intro to Electromagnetic waves, #6, 11, 28, 29, 47, 50, 54, 64  T 40 + Fusion (CM), #3, 8, 35, 47, 49, 58, 71
BO 2.8:  Coupled harmonic oscillators  (#) G_: Linear Algebra  (#) EM 2:  Electrostatics  (#1,5,6,9,12,15,16,17,21,22,24,25,31,35,37,40,49) T 38 + winter lights, 
#16, 28, 30, 69, 72
Whose Science?
 Momentum Conservation 
Classical:  BO 4 (#3, 7, 9, 15, 18) 
Relativistic: T 39   (#46, 53, 58, 61, 75, 80)
EM2:  Poisson and Laplace equations  (#) EM 5:  Magnetostatics  (#1,2,3,4,5,7,10,12,28,34,37) interference wkshp
T 16: Standing waves  (#75, 81, 95) 
T 17:  Electron and photons (#14, 21, 22, 37, 47, 54)
EM7:  Electrodynamics  (#5,9,12,16,22,25,28,41(a)) Meade telescope Galison
T 36: Wave-particle duality, particles in boxes  (#2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 24, 29) wave eqn  EM 8:  Electromagnetic waves  (#) photoelectric effect wkshp
QM  (#) + BO 5  (#):  spin and angular momentum QM 1-2: Momentum operator + energy conservation -> Schroedinger Eqn  (#) SEM Alice
 intro to thermal - we won't do all these problems 
KK 2 (#1, 2, 3, 6) 
KK 3  (#2,3,4,6,10) 
KK 4 (#1,3,4,5,6,,7,8,14,18) 
KK 5 (#1,3,5,6,7,8,11,14) 
 
QM 3:  Uncertainty principle, etc.  (#) Magnetars
KK 6  (#2,3,6,7,9,10,12,14,15) 
KK7 (#2,3,5,6,9) 
KK 8 (#2,3,6,7,9) 
KK 9 (#2,4,5) 
KK10  (#1,2,3,4,5,6) 
KK  (#) 
 
T 37 (#14, 16, 23, 31, 33, 38, 56) + QM 4  (#):  H atom, spin, L T 38 + NMR  (#16, 28, 30, 69, 72) Heisenberg
HK Ch.3:  Equations of State  (#) Poisson's equation, Sep. Var. HK Ch.7.1-7.2.1:  Stellar structure  (#) T 40 + LSA  (#)
KK:  Heat transfer (#) HK Ch.10.1: asteroseismology (adiabatic, radial) (#) Thermal and wave power Barad
HK:  Ch.4:  Heat Transfer  (#) HK:  Ch.10.2:  asteroseismology (Non- adiabatic, radial)  (#)
 


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