Course Instructor: Prof. Andrew Mastbaum (mastbaum@physics.rutgers.edu)
Two 55-minute in-person lectures per week in the Physics Lecture Hall (PLH, map): Tuesday and Thursday, 4:05–5:00 PM.
One 80-minute in-person workshop recitation/week:
| Section | Day | Time | Room |
| 01 | W | 10:20 AM | SEC-218 |
| 02 | W | 12:10 PM | SEC-218 |
| 03 | W | 5:40 PM | SEC-218 |
01:750:228 Analytical Physics IIb is a 3-credit course introducing optics, relativity, and modern physics. This course will provide a solid foundation, at an elementary level, in waves and optics, relativity, quantum properties of electrons and photons, wave mechanics, atomic, solid state, nuclear and elementary particle physics. In addition to the two 55-minute lectures, you will meet in one 80-minute recitation each week, where you will gain experience with the material by working through examples and problems.
Note: This schedule is subject to change!
| Week | Tuesday Lecture | Recitation | Homework | Thursday Lecture |
| 9/4 | Nature of light Reading: 33.1 - 33.3 |
None | HW 1 (Due 9/10) | Dispersion, polarization 33.4 - 33.7 |
| 9/11 | Mirrors and images 34.1 - 34.4 |
Recitation 1 | HW 2 (Due 9/13) | Thin lenses 34.4 - 34.8 |
| 9/18 | Interference 35.1 - 35.3 |
Recitation 2 | HW 3 (Due 9/20) | Thin films 35.4 - 35.5 |
| 9/25 | Diffraction 36.1 - 36.3 |
Recitation 3 | HW 4 (Due 9/27) | Diffraction cont'd 36.4 - 36.5, 36.7 |
| 10/2 | Special Relativity 37.1 - 37.4 |
Recitation 4 | HW 5 (Due 10/4) | Exam 1 (10/5) |
| 10/9 | Lorentz transformations 37.5 - 37.6 |
Recitation 5 | HW 6 (Due 10/11) | Relativistic kinematics 37.7 - 37.9 |
| 10/16 | Photons 38.1 - 38.2 |
Recitation 6 | HW 7 (Due 10/18) | Photons cont'd 38.3 - 38.4 |
| 10/23 | Particles & waves 39.1 - 39.3 |
Recitation 7 | HW 8 (Due 10/25) | Atoms 39.4 - 39.6 |
| 10/30 | Quantum Mechanics in 1D 40.1 - 40.3 |
Recitation 8 | HW 9 (Due 11/1) | QM potentials 40.4 - 40.6 |
| 11/6 | Atomic Structure 41.1 - 41.3 |
Recitation 9 | HW 10 (Due 11/8) | Exam 2 (11/9) |
| 11/13 | Hydrogen Atom 41.3 - 41.5 |
Recitation 10 | HW 11 (Due 11/15) | Multi-electron atoms 41.6 - 41.8 |
| 11/20 | Condensed matter & molecules 42.1 - 42.4 |
Friday schedule No recitation |
HW 12 (Due 11/22) | Thanksgiving recess No lecture |
| 11/27 | Conductors & semiconductors 42.5 - 42.8 |
Recitation 11 | HW 13 (Due 11/29) | Nuclear Physics 43.1 - 43.4 |
| 12/4 | Nuclear fission & fusion 43.5 - 43.8 |
Recitation 12 | HW 14 (Due 12/6) | Particle physics 44.1 - 44.5 |
| 12/11 | Lecture | None | HW 15 (Due 12/13) | Reading days No lecture |
| Final Exam: Thursday 12/21, 4:00–7:00 PM in PLH | ||||
To register for MasteringPhysics, follow the provided Student Instructions to register through Canvas. The easiest way to get access to course materials is to purchase the version that includes the eText within MasteringPhysics. If you choose to buy a hard copy of the book, be sure that it is the 15th edition version with Modern Physics.
To record your answers to lecture questions, you can create a free Mentimeter account, or email them to yourself at the end of the lecture. The lecture questions will not be graded.
For an additional reference for the course material, the free text book OpenStax University Physics Vol.3 is a good resource.
Your grade will be based on five components:
You must attend your own section, and will work with a partner. The worksheets you complete will be graded by your section instructor, each out of 20 points in total.
Homework is automatically graded, with a total score out of 100. Free Response Problems will allow up to 6 attempts with a 3% penalty on each. Multiple Choice questions will carry a penalty of 100%/(N-1), where N is the number of choices.
Late Homework will carry a penalty of 10% per day (0.4% per hr) with a maximum penalty of 50% (submitted 5 days or more after the deadline). Late penalties apply only to incomplete items (i.e., problems or parts of problems). No extensions will be given for any reason.
There will be two midterm exams and one comprehensive final exam. Items allowed at exams include: pencil(s), eraser(s), and a scientific calculator. No notes are allowed; a standard equation sheet will be provided.
All exams will be held in person. Midterm exams will be 55 minutes long and consist of about 10–15 multiple choice questions. The final exam will be 180 minutes long and consist of about 30 multiple choice questions.
The tentative ranges for letter grades are as follows. Note that the thresholds may be lowered, but will not be raised above these levels.
Changes: The course schedule and guidelines are subject to change. Any changes will be communicated promptly and clearly.
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