PHY 3063 Spring 2009 (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 06              Introduction to the Course and Ch. 1

                                                 Homework from Textbook: 

                                                Ch. 1 Problems 38, 41, 43, 49, 55, 57

                                                Ch. 2 Problems: 9, 17, 21, 29, 37, 47 (48 in 5th Ed), 49 (50 in 5th Ed)
                                                Solution to Problem 2-21 (in PDF format)
                         Jan 08             Ch. 1 continued.  EC1 (5 pts, in class)


Week 2            Jan 13              Ch. 1 clarify "proper", finish Ch. 1 and Doppler Effect. 
                                                Start Ch. 2 (at most to the end of Sec. 2-4).

                        Jan 15              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, except Dopler Effect)

                                              

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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 20              Discussion about General  Relativity, Forces, Unification
                                                 Start Ch. 3: demo of photoelectric effect

                                                Ch. 3 Problems: 21, 28, 36, 47, 51, 56

                                                Start Blackbody Radiation in DETAIL

                        Jan 22              Continue Detailed Discussion of Blackbody Radiation

                                                 Photoelectric Effect AGAIN, Demo operated correctly!

                                                Quiz 2 (material in class and text as related to Ch. 2
                                                                Ch. 1 Doppler Shift is also possible)

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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 27              Continue and Finish Blackbody Radiation Discussion

                                                 Prep for Microkelvin Visit.

                        Jan 29              Microkelvin Lab Visit (meet at Microkelvin Lab, next to Williamson Hall)
                                                Quiz 3 (material in class and text as related to Ch. 3, except Blackbody Radiation0)

                                                 (Quiz 3 was a "take-home" quiz due to tour).


Week 5            Feb 03             Start Ch. 4 and work on Rutherford Scattering
                                                Continue with Ch. 4, Ch. 4 Problems: 6, 7, 9, 19, 24, 25

                        Feb 05             Continue Ch. 4:  The Bohr Model and finite mass corrections

                                                Quiz 4 (material in class and texts as related to Blackbody Radiation)
                                                 Extra-Credit 2 (5 points)


Week 6            Feb 10             Extra-Credit 2 (5 points) Due at start of Class.
                                                Finish Ch. 4: Sommerfeld’s Theory and related.  Start Ch. 5.

                                                  Ch. 5 Problems: 9, 17, 29, 33, 37, 48, 50

                                                Acoustics and Vibration Animations, Dan Russell, Kettering Univ.

                                                The uncertainty principle, by Mountain Math Software

                                                Wave Packets by Michael Fowler, University of Virginia

                        Feb 12             Continue Ch. 5, Start Ch. 6

                                                Ch. 6 Problems: 7, 16, 25 in 4th Ed (is 26 in 5th Ed),

41-42 in 4th Ed (are 43-44 in 5th Ed), 47 in 4th Ed (is 49 in 5th Ed)

                                                (introduce/motivate Schrödinger Equation)
                                                Quiz 5 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 4, excluding material on Feb. 10 lecture)


Week 7            Feb 17           Continue Ch. 6, free particle and infinite square well

                                                Ch. 6 Problems: 7, 16, 25 in 4th Ed (is 26 in 5th Ed),

41-42 in 4th Ed (are 43-44 in 5th Ed), 47 in 4th Ed (is 49 in 5th Ed)

                        Feb 19             Quiz 6 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 5)


Week 8            Feb 24             Review for MTE 1 and Q-A Session

                                                Solution to Problem 2-21 (in PDF format)
                        Feb 26             Mid-term Exam (MTE) 1 (material up to the end of 17 Feb)


Week 9            Mar 03             Return MTE 1, Discuss Reading Assignment, Continue Ch. 6

                        Mar 05             Reading Day:  Crystallography and Reciprocal Lattice Space

                                                Assigned Reading: “X-Rays in Molecular Biophysics”, by

                                                Wayne A. Hendrickson, Physics Today, Nov. 1995, Vol. 48 (No. 11)

                                                pp. 42-48.  The PDF is available via the UF Library (but not directly)

                                                viaScitation”.  There may be several ways to do it, but here is one

                                                that worked for me.  (A) Logon (remotely or from UF machine) to

                                                the UF Library.  (B) Choose Databases and search for “Scitation”.

                                                (C) Go to “Standard Search” tab, and enter “Hendrickson” as author,

                                                and Vol. 48.  (D) When the search returns the information, choose the

                                                “FIND it at UF” button.  (E) Now a PDF or HTML version should be

                                                Available to you via EBSCO Host.


Week 10            No Classes, UF Spring Break


Week 11            Mar 17           Crystallography and Reciprocal Lattice Space, Continue Ch. 6

                                                Additional References:

                                                Crystallography 101:  An Introductory Course by Bernhard Rupp

                                                Intro. to Fourier Transforms for Image Processing by John M. Brayer,

                                                http://www.cs.unm.edu/~brayer/vision/fourier.html
                                                Quiz 7 (material in class and texts as related to the parts of 
                                                           Ch. 6 that were part of MTE 1 material)
                                                Define Quiz 8 (do at home, due at the start of class on March 24)

                                                HANDOUT on Energy Barriers and Wavefunctions

                        Mar 19             Final Comments on Ch. 6

                                                Clarify Barriers et al., You “set-up” Problem 6-61 in 4th (6-62 in 5th)


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LINKS:            Some Links for QM barriers and wells and orbitals

                        IBM Quantum Corrals

                        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 24         Quiz 8 (do at home and due at START of today’s class)

                                                Quiz 9 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 6 since MTE1)

                                                Sketch solution to Problem 6-61 in 4th (6-62 in 5th)

                                               Start Ch. 7:  Ch. 7 Problems: 7-19, 7-24, 7-25, 7-68, 7-70

                        Mar 26            Special Lecture: Professor Alexander Feher, Institute of Physics,

                                                P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia

                                                Discussion about “Superconductivity” (Read Sec. 10-9)


Week 13            Mar 31             Finish Ch. 7: angular momentum, spin, and

                                                three (3) particles, total wave function.

                                               

                        Apr 02             Sections 8.2, 8.3

                                                BEC at U COhttp://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/

                                                Required ReadingQuantum Liquids by A. J. Leggett

                                                Science 29 February 2008: 1203-1205

                                               Quiz 10 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 7 covered

                                                            to the end of lecture on 24 March and Sec. 10-9)


Week 14            Apr 07            Review for Mid-term Exam 2, email questions/issues by Noon

                                                            on April 6, Course Evaluations

                          Apr 09            Mid-term Exam 2 (focusing on material (texts, readings, lectures) since MTE1 to end 02 April)


Week 15            Apr 14             Review MTE2

                                                Resolve “party” arrangements?

                                               Ch. 11 and Ch. 12 (4th Ed.), which is Ch. 11 of (5th Ed.)

                                                and ONLINE Liquid Drop and Nuclear Safety Issues

                                               Readings:

                                                “Radiation Risk and Ethics”, by Zbigniew Jaworowski

Physics Today, Sep99, Vol. 52 Issue 9, p24, 6p, (available online, eg:

http://www.riskworld.com/nreports/1999/jaworowski/NR99aa01.htm)

“Fathoming Matter’s Heart Unbound”, by Adrian Cho

Science, 13 March 2009, Vo. 323, pp1424-1425, see:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5920/1424

                            Apr 16             Aspects of Ch. 13 (4th Ed.), which is Ch. 12 (5th Ed.)

                                                http://www.cpepweb.org/

                                                http://particleadventure.org/

                                                Quantum Computing

                                                N. David Mermin’s Lecture Notes at Cornell, see:

                                                http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~mermin/qcomp/CS483.html

                                                (“From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum

                                                mechanics”, by N. David Mermin, Am. J. Phys. 71 (2003) 23-30.

                                                Famous recent “headlines” in Science:

                                                “Sudden Death of Entanglement”, 30 Jan 09, Vol. 323, p. 598:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5914/598.

                                                “Oddly, Too Much Weirdness Slows a Quantum Computer Down”,

                                                27 March 09, Vol. 323, p. 1658:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5922/1658b.

                                                Quiz 11 (material that was appropriate for MTE2)


Week 16            Apr 21             Review for Final Exam, Last Class

                        Apr 23             No Class, UF Reading Period


Final Exam Group 28B:  Tuesday, April 28, 10:00 am to NOON, our classroom