PHY 3063 Spring 2008 (Meisel) “in vivo schedule”
NOTE: blue text is past and
black text is tentative projection; with tentative
quizzes and exam dates in red text
(timing to be announced in lecture), and the final exam is in green text and is set by the UF schedule.
Week 1 Jan 08 No Class
Jan 10 Introduction to
the Course and Ch. 1
[Jan 11] Email announcement of Homework from Textbook:
Ch.
1 Problems 38, 41, 43, 49, 55, 57
Ch.
2 Problems: 9, 17, 21, 23, 37, 47, 49
Week 2 Jan 15 Ch. 1 continued and Ch. 2 (at most
to the end of Sec. 2-4)
Jan 17 Ch.
2 continued and Review of Special Relativity
Collision
Problem: α particles collides with
fixed e-.
Threshold
Production during Collision: Lab vs. CM
Frames
Quiz
1 (material in class and Ch. 1)
Start Ch. 3: demo of photoelectric effect
Ch.
3 Problems: 21, 28, 36, 47, 51, 56
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Aside:
Millikan’s Oil Drop Experient – Candy Coated in Textbook?
Step 1: Read pp. 131 – 132 and online textbook blurb.
Step 2: YouTube? Try: Who IS Robert Millikan?
Step 3: More YouTube? Try: Milikan Project (sic)
Step 4: Feynman? Try: Cargo Cult Science
“But this long history of learning how to not
fool ourselves--of having utter scientific integrity –
is, I’m sorry to say, something that we
haven’t specifically included in any particular course that
I know of.
We just hope you’ve caught on by osmosis.”
Step 5: Ethics? Try:
Case Study 2: The Millikan Case - Discrimination Versus Manipulation of Data
(Online Ethics Center for Engineering
7/20/2006 1:17:42 PM National Academy of Engineering
Accessed: Tuesday, January 15, 2008)
Step 6: Repeat Step 1? Your thoughts?
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Week 3 Jan 22 Ch. 3 continued: Blackbody Radiation in DETAIL
Jan
24 Finish
Detailed Discussion of Blackbody Radiation
Quiz 2 (material in class and
text as related to Ch. 2)
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Aside:
“Perfect Blackbodies and Cosmic Microwave Background”
From NPR (16 Jan 08): “University Makes New Black from Tiny Carbon Tubes”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18159641
From Nano Letters: “Experimental Observation of an Extremely Dark Material Made By a
Low-Density Nanotube Array”, Z.-P. Yang, L. Ci, J.A. Bur, S.-Y. Lin, P.M. Ajayan,
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/nalefd/asap/abs/nl072369t.html
From WMAP site at NASA: Cosmic Microwave Background (text and images)
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Week 4 Jan 29 “Reading Day”, No formal lecture
Jan 31 Review derivation
of density of waves in a box; Start Ch. 4
Quiz
3 (material in class and text as related to Ch. 3)
Week 5 Feb 05 Continue Ch. 4: Rutherford Scattering and The Bohr Model
Ch.
4 Problems: 6, 7, 9, 19, 24, 25
Feb 07 Continue Ch.
4: Finite mass corrections and
Sommerfeld’s Theory
Finish
Ch. 4 and start Ch. 5
Quiz
4 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 3)
Week 6 Feb 12 Final Comments about Ch. 4 and Start
Ch. 5
Acoustics and Vibration
Animations, Dan Russell, Kettering Univ.
The uncertainty principle, by
Mountain Math Software
Wave
Packets by Michael Fowler, University of Virginia
Feb 14 Continue Ch. 5,
Start Ch. 6
(introduce/motivate
Schrödinger Equation)
Ch.
5 Problems: 9, 17, 29, 33, 37, 48, 50
Quiz 5 (material in class and
texts as related to Ch. 4)
Week 7 Feb 19 Continue Ch. 6, free particle and
infinite square well
Ch.
6 Problems: 7, 16, 25, 41, 42, 47
Feb 21 Quiz 6 @ 08:30
(material in class and texts as related to Ch. 5)
Week 8 Feb 26 Review for MTE 1 and Q-A Session
Feb 28 Mid-term Exam
(MTE) 1 (material up to the end of 21 Feb)
Week 9 Mar 04 Return MTE 1, Continue Ch. 6
Mar 06 Quiz 7 (material
in class and texts as related to the parts of
Ch. 6 that were part of MTE 1 material)
Crystallography and Reciprocal
Lattice Space
Week 10 No Classes, UF Spring Break
Week 11 Mar 18 Finish Ch. 6, Define Quiz 8 (do at
home)
Mar 20 Final Comments on
Ch. 6, start Ch. 7
Ch.
7 Problems: 7-19, 7-24, 7-25, 7-68, 7-70
Quiz
8 (do at home and due at start of class)
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LINKS: Some Links for QM barriers and wells and orbitals
Paul Falstad: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
PhET: U-CO at Boulder:
http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Quantum_Tunneling_and_Wave_Packets
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Week 12 Mar 25 Clarify Barriers et al., Do Problem
6-61
Continue
with Ch. 7: angular momentum, spin, and onward
Mar 27 Continue with Ch.
7: many (2) particles, Ferions, Bosons, et al.
Quiz
9 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 6 since MTE1)
Week 13 Apr 01 Finish Ch. 7: three (3) particles,
total wave function.
Sections
8.2, 8.3, 10.9.
BEC
at U CO: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/
Required
Reading: Quantum Liquids by A.
J. Leggett
Science 29
February 2008: 1203-1205
Apr 03 Ch. 11: Sections
1,2,5,6, and ONLINE Liquid Drop
Quiz
10 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 7 covered
to the end of lecture on 27 March)
Week 14 Apr 08 Quiz 10 (do at home due at the start
of class)
Review
for Mid-term Exam 2, email questions/issues by 6 pm
on April 7
Apr 10 Mid-term
Exam 2 (focusing on material (texts, readings, lectures) since MTE1 to end
03 April)
Week 15 Apr 15 Review MTE2 and course evaluations,
resolve Final Exam timing?
Resolve
“party” arrangements?
Ch.
12: Sections 1,2, and ONLINE Safety Issues
Optional
Reading:
“Radiation
Risk and Ethics”, by Jaworowski, Zbigniew.
Physics
Today, Sep99, Vol. 52 Issue 9, p24, 6p,
(available online, eg: http://www.riskworld.com/nreports/1999/jaworowski/NR99aa01.htm)
Apr 17 Aspects of Ch. 13
Quiz
11 (material that was appropriate for MTE2): Solution
Week 16 Apr 22 Review for Final Exam, Last Class,
Quantum Computing
Apr 24 No
Class, UF Reading Period