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Physics 228 - Analytical Physics IIB

Optics and Modern Physics
Spring 2012


Note: Expect small changes throughout the semester.

Revised Syllabus

Textbook
The assigned reading is from our textbook:
Young and Freedman: University Physics, Volumes 2 and 3, 13th Edition, Pearson/Addison Wesley, San Francisco, 2012.

If you purchased the combined volume 2 and 3 for 227, this will suffice for 228. Most of the course will follow volume 3 (Modern Physics).

Please complete the assigned reading before each lecture, and be sure to bring your i-clicker transmitter with you to lecture. You may be quizzed on the reading at the beginning of each lecture, and you will be asked to participate interactively throughout the lecture with the i-clicker.

There are web-based homework assignments throughout the semester using Mastering Physics.

  • The first deadline for homework assignments is 11:59 PM on Wednesday, January 25.  This is required only for students who did not take Physics 227 in the fall. It is an tutorial assigment (not for credit) that introduces you to Mastering Physics. It is essential to do this before starting to complete problems in Mastering Physics for points, so as not to lose credit for making mistakes in inputing your answers into the system.
  • After that, there will be one set of problems each week, due at 11:59 PM on Monday, though we encourage you to do them before the weekend.
The problems will be graded by Mastering Physics, which rigidly enforces the deadlines for completion.

Schedule

  • Tuesday recitation sections start on Jan. 25th.
  • Wednesday recitation sections start on Jan. 26th.

In the first column "L" = Lecture, "R" = Recitation, "E" = Exam, "N" = No class, "V" = Review, and  "TBA" = "To Be Announced."



week Monday lecture Recitation Thursday lecture MP Homework
1/16 - 1/20 No Lecture

 No recitations
 L1: Ch. 33: 1-4
Laws of Geom. Optics		 none, but next week's
will be posted.
1/23- 1/27
 L2: Ch. 34:1-2
Geometrical Optics		 R1: Ch. 33:1-4, 34:1-2
 L3: Ch. 34:3-4
Geometrical. Optics		 HW01
1/30 @ 11.59PM
1/30- 2/03 L4: Ch. 35:1-2
Interference of Light Waves		 R2: Ch. 34:3-4, 35:1-2 L5: Ch. 35:3-5
More interference		 HW02
2/6 @ 11.59PM
2/06 - 2/10 L6: 36:1-3 Diffraction
 R3: Ch. 35:3-5, 36:1-3 L7: Ch. 36:4-7
More diffraction 		HW03
2/13@ 11.59PM
2/13 - 2/17 L8: Ch. 33:5
Polarization 		R4: 33:5, 36:4-7
 L9: Ch. 37:1,2
Einstein's postulates		 HW04
2/20 @ 11.59PM


2/20 - 2/24 L10: Ch. 37:3,4
Time dilation and length contraction 		R5: Ch. 36 and 33:5 Review for exam, Ch. 33-36
February 23: First Hour Exam 9:40 PM		 HW05
2/27@ 11.59PM
2/27 - 3/02 L11:  Ch. 37: 5-8
Lorentz transformation, Doppler effect, Energy-Momentum
R6: Ch. 37:1-4
 L12: Ch. 38:1-3
Photoelectric effect, line spectra, Compton scattering, Pair production 		HW06
3/05@ 11.59PM
3/05- 3/09 L13:  Ch. 38:4,39:5
Uncertainty principle, Blackbody radiation 		R7: Ch. 37:5-8 L14: Ch. 39:1-3
Wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle, Bohr atom		 HW07
3/19 @ 11.59PM

3/12 - 3/16 Spring Break
3/19 - 3/23 L15: Ch. 39.4-5, 40.1
Lasers, black-body radiation, wave functions and probability, The Schrodinger Equation. 		R8: Ch. 38

 L16:  Ch. 40:2-5, Particle in a Box. Barriers and Tunneling. Harmonic Oscillator. HW08
3/26 @ 11.59PM



3/26 - 3/30 L17: Ch. 41:1-3
QM in 3D. Hydrogen Atom. Radial probablity distribution,
R9: Ch. 39
 L18: Ch. 41:4-7 Zeeman effect, atomic transitions, electron spin, many-electron atoms, x-ray spectra HW09
4/02 @ 11.59PM

4/02
-4/06
 L19: Ch. 42:1-4
Molecules, Solids, Band Theory		 R10: Ch. 40
 Review for 2nd hour exam , Ch. 37-40
Thursday, April 5: 2nd Hour Exam 9:40 PM
 HW10
4/09 @ 11.59PM
4/09 - 4/13 L20: Ch. 42:5-6
Free electron model,
Semiconductors 		R11: Ch. 41
 L21: Ch. 43:1-3
Nuclear Properties, Radioactivity		 HW11
4/16 @ 11.59PM
4/16 - 4/20
 L22:Ch. 43:4-5
Radioactive decay and biological effects of radiation		 R12: Ch. 42 L23: Ch. 43.6-7
Fission		 HW12
4/23 @ 11.59PM
4/23 - 4/27
 L24: Ch. 43.8
Fusion		 R13: Ch. 43 L25:Ch. 44:1-2
Elementary Particles and Accelerators		 HW13
4/30 @ 11.59PM

4/30
 L26:  Ch. 44:3-4
Conservation laws, quarks and the Standard Model		 End of Term



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Ron Gilman (rgilman@physics.rutgers.edu)
Last modified: Wed Mar 21 13:32:26 EDT 2012