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Lecture NotesKarin Rabe, 2011
The complete set of notes from the 2010 lectures are given. For 2011,
an updated version will be posted here shortly after the corresponding
lecture, and the subject box color will be changed from clear to blue
to indicate the update. The clicker questions (with answers) will
be posted after the corresponding lecture. |
| Num. | Date | Subject | Lecture
notes |
Slides |
| 1 |
Jan.
20 |
Introduction;
Reflection and refraction of light |
Notes | Slides |
| 2 |
Jan. 24 | Geometrical
Optics: Mirrors |
Notes
|
Slides |
| 3 |
Jan. 27 |
snow cancellation |
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| 4 |
Jan 31 |
Geometrical Optics: Lenses | Notes | Slides |
| 5 |
Feb 3 |
Interference | Notes
ppt animations (note #3 and #4 are updated) #1 #2 #3 #4 |
Slides |
| 6 |
Feb. 7 |
More Interference | Notes
ppt animations #1 #2 #3 |
Slides |
| 7 |
Feb. 10 |
Diffraction | Notes | Slides |
| 8 |
Feb. 14 |
More Diffraction | Notes
|
Slides |
| 9 |
Feb 17 |
Polarization/Introduction to Special Relativity | Notes | Slides |
| 10 |
Feb 21 | Special relativity: time
dilation and length
contraction |
Notes | |
| Feb. 24 |
first hour exam -- review | |
|
|
| 11 |
Feb 28 |
Doppler effect, addition of velocities, relativistic momentum, relativistic generalization of Newton's laws | Notes | |
| 12 |
March
3 |
From
19th to 20th century
physics: photoelectric effect, |
Notes
photoelectric effect applet |
|
| 13 | March 7 |
Bohr
atom, Blackbody radiation, Compton scattering |
Notes
|
|
| 14 | March 10 |
Wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle | Notes | |
| 15 | March 21 |
Wave functions and probability.
Schrodinger's
Equation. |
Notes
free particle applet |
|
| 16 |
March 24 | Wave
Packets. Particle
in a box. Harmonic oscillator. |
Notes
box and harmonic osciallator applet |
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| 17 |
March 29 |
Quantum numbers of hydogen
atom, angular
momentum. Radial
probability distributions, |
Notes
H-atom applets. |
|
| 18 |
March 31 |
Zeeman Effect, selection rules. Electron spin, many-electron atoms | Notes | |
| 19 |
April
4 |
x-ray spectra, bonding and molecular spectra | Notes | |
| April 7 |
Second hour exam -- review |
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| April
7 evening |
Second
hour exam |
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| 20 |
April 11 |
Solids: bands, free-electron
model |
Notes
|
|
| 21 | April 14 | Solids: Fermi
energy, Fermi-Dirac distribution Nuclear physics: basics of nuclei |
Notes | |
| 22 | April 18 |
Radioactivity, half-life | Notes | |
| 23 | April 21 |
Radioactive dating, biological
effects, fission (start) |
Notes | |
| 24 | April 25 |
More fission, fusion | Notes
|
|
| 25 | April 28 |
Elementary Particles, Accelerators | Notes
|
|
| 26 | May 3 |
Quarks
and the Standard Model. |
Notes
|
|
| Review
for exam |