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Physics 228 - Analytical Physics IIB

Modern Physics
Spring, 2008


Note: Expect small changes throughout the semester.

Revised Syllabus

January
February
March
April
May


Textbook
The assigned reading is from our textbook:
Young and Freedman: University Physics, Volumes 2 and 3, 12th Edition, Pearson/Addison Wesley, San Francisco, 2007.

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 will 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 WWW-based homework assignments throughout the semester using Mastering Physics.

  • For the first deadline for homework assignments is 10 PM on Weds, Feb 2nd.  The initial assignment is two part -
           an introductory assignment (not for credit) that introduces you to mastering physics (essential to do this if
           you have not encountered mastering physics before).

           the first homework.

  • After that, there will be just one set of problems each week, due at 10 PM on Monday, though we encourage you to do them before the weekend. Homeworks after midterms will be given a two day extension to 10PM on Weds.
The problems will be graded by Mastering Physics, which rigidly enforces the deadlines for completion.

Schedule

  • Tuesday recitation sections start on Jan. 29th.
  • Wednesday recitation sections start on Jan. 30th.

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
1/21 - 1/25 No Lecture Recitations cancelled L1: Ch. 33: 1-4, 7
Laws of Geom. Optics
none, but next weeks
will be posted.
1/28- 2/01 L2: Ch. 34:1-3
Geometrical Optics
R1: Ch. 33:1-4, 33:7 L3: Ch. 34:4,
Geom. Optics
HW01
2/04 @ 11.59PM
2/04- 2/08 L4: Ch. 35:1-3
Interference of Light Waves
R2: Ch. 34:1-4, 35:1-2 L5: Ch. 35:4-5, 36:1-3, 36:7
More interference, Diffraction
HW02
2/11 @ 11.59PM
2/11 - 2/15 L6: Ch. 36:4-6, 33:5
Diffraction
R3: Ch. 35:3-5, 36:1-3, 7 L7: Ch. 37:1 (plus)
Relativity; Michelson-Morley Expt.
HW03
2/18@ 11.59PM
2/18 - 2/22 L8: Ch. 37:2-5
Lorentz Transformation
R4: Ch. 36:4-6, 33:5, 37:1 Review for exam, Ch. 33-36
Feb. 21: First Hour Exam
HW04
2/27 @ 11.59PM (Note 2 day extension)
2/21
Thursday, 9:40-11:00 PM.     First Hour Exam on Ch: 33-36.
2/25 - 2/29 L9: Ch. 37: 6-8
Energy-Momentum, key experiments
R5: Ch. 37:1-5 L10: Ch. 38:8, 38:1-2, 38:7, 38:3-4
Breakdown of classical mechanics
HW05
  3/03@ 11.59PM

3/03 - 3/07

Catch up

R6: Ch. 37:6-8, Ch. 38:1-4, 7-8

Catch up.
HW06
3/10@ 11.59PM
3/10- 3/14 L11: Ch. 38:5, 9; Ch. 39:1
Bohr Atom; Wave-Particle Duality
R7: Ch. 38:5,9; Ch. 39:1-5 L12: Ch. 39:2-4
Uncertainty Principle
HW07
3/24 @ 11.59PM
Note: we will not be covering Chapter 40 sections 2-4
3/17 - 3/21 Spring Break
3/24 - 3/28 L13: Ch. 39:5,
The Schrodinger Equation, Wave Packets
R8: Ch. 39:5, Ch. 40:1, 5, Ch. 41:1,2 L14: Ch. 40:1, Ch. 40:5, Particle in a Box. HW08
4/02 @ 11.59PM
(Note ext to Weds)
3/24 Mon Eve
Review for Common Hour 2 Exam.  Evening at location to be announced.
3/27 Thursday, 9:40-11:00 PM.     Second Hour Exam on Ch: 37:1-40:5.  (but not 40:2-4)
3/31 - 4/04 L15/16:  Ch. 41:3-5, Ch. 38.6
Hydrogen Atom. Spin, Exclusion Principle, Atomic Structure
R9: Ch. 41:2-5. L17: Ch. 42:1-4
Lasers, Molecules, Solids, Band Theory
HW09
4/07@ 11.59PM

4/07
-4/11
L18: Ch. 42:5-6
Free electron model
R10: Ch. 42:1-6
Note: We will not cover 42:7-8
L19: Ch. 42:5-6
Semiconductors
HW10
4/14 @ 11.59PM
4/14 - 4/18 L20: Ch. 43:1-2
Nuclei Properties and Models
R11: Ch. 43:1-4
Note: We will not cover 43:5
L21:  43:3-4.
Radioactivity, Decays; Nuclear Reactions
HW11
4/21 @ 11.59PM
4/21 - 4/25
L22:Ch. 43:6-7
Decay Q values, Nuclear Fission
R12: Ch. 43:6-8, controlled fusion L23: Ch. 43.8 and more
Fusion
HW12
4/28 @ 11.59PM
4/28 - 5/02
L24: Ch. 44:1, 44:3
High Energy Physics
R13: Ch. 44:1-4 L25:Ch. 44:2-3
Elementary Particles
HW13
5/05 @ 11.59PM

5/05
L26:  Ch. 44:4 -5
Resonances, Quarks, Color
End of Term
May 13
Tuesday 4:00-7:00 PM - Final Exam 




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Piers Coleman (coleman@physics.rutgers.edu)
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