Physical SystemsStudent Presentations updated 3.Sept.2002 
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    Students will do short PRESENTATIONS each Monday, in addition to RESEARCH planning and presentations.

    GOALS: 1. Practice communicating physical and mathematical ideas using words, blackboard, and overhead projector.

    2. Introduce everyone to Vector Analysis as background material for Electrodynamics in fall, and to Linear Algebra as background material for Quantum Mechanics in winter, supplementing lectures and other learning activities on these topics. Texts: FALL: Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics; WINTER: Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

    Three students will individually give half-hour presentations each Monday, for a total of 90 minutes. You each have 20 minutes for your presentation + 5 minutes for questions. We'll use 5 more minutes for feedback.

    Do at least 2 examples in your presentation. You might want to read the material in an introductory calculus book, too.

    All 3 presenters for a given day should practice their presentations with each other at least one day before your presentation to the class. If one of your co-presenters is absent, the two (or one) remaining should be prepared to cover all of the material for that day. For your 1st presentation: Use the blackboard only; have 1-page handout with big TITLE at top, plus name & date.

    For your 2nd presentation: Use the overhead projector (or PowerPoint); have 1-page handout with big TITLE at top, plus your name & the date.
    Wk Date Section Fall Topics: Vector Analysis, Ch.1, E&M Presenter
    2 7.Oct. 1.1.1

    1.1.2

    1.1.3

    		 Vector Operations

    Vector Algebra

    Triple Products

    		 1. Jason Russell

    2. Jason Wall

    3. Andy Syltebo?
    3 14.Oct. 1.1.4

    1.2.1+2

    1.2.3

    		 Position, Displacement, and Separation Vectors

    Ordinary derivatives + Gradient

    The Del Operator

    		 1.Noah Heller

    2. Don Verbeke

    3. Andrew White
    4 21.Oct. 1.2.4

    1.2.5

    1.2.6

    		 Divergence

    Curl

    Product Rules

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    5 28.Oct. 1.2.7

    1.3.1

    1.3.2

    		 Second derivatives

    Line, Surface, and Volume Integrals

    The Fundamental Theorem of Calculum

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    7 11.Nov. 1.3.3

    1.3.4

    1.3.5

    		 Fundamental Theorem for Gradients

    Fundamental Theorem for Divergences

    Fundamental Theorem for Curls

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    8 18.Nov. 1.3.6

    1.4.1

    1.4.1

    		 Integration by Parts

    Spherical Polar Coordinates

    vector operators in spherical polar coordinates

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    9 2.Dec. 1.4.2

    1.6.1

    1.6.2

    		 Cylindrical Coordinates

    Helmholtz Theorem

    Potentials

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
     
    Wk Date Section Winter Topic: Linear Algebra, QM Ch.3 Presenter
    1 6.Jan. 3.1.1

    3.1.2

    3.1.3

    		 Vectors

    Inner Products

    Linear Transformations p. 80-83

    		 1._________________

    2._________________

    3._________________
    2 13.Jan. 3.1.3-4

    3.1.4

    3.1.5

    		 Transformations and Vectors

    Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues

    Hermitian Transformations

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    4 27.Jan. 3.2.1

    3.2.2

    3.2.3

    		 Functions as vectors

    Operators as Linear Transformations

    Hilbert Space

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    5 3.Feb. 3.3 #1

    3.3 #2

    3.3 #3

    		 States represented as vectors

    Observables represented by Hermition operators

    Measurements

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    8 24.Feb. 3.4.1

    3.4.2

    3.4.3

    		 Uncertainty Principle

    Minimum-uncertainty wavepacket

    Energy-time Uncertainty Principle

    		 1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
    9 3.March     1._________________ 

    2._________________ 

    3._________________ 
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