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
Homework from Textbook:
Solution to Problem 2-21 (in PDF
format)
Jan 08
Week
2 Jan
13
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
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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
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
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
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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
(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
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
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
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
Week 7 Feb
17 Continue
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
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
Mar 05
Reading
Day: Crystallography and Reciprocal Lattice Space
Assigned
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)
via “Scitation”. 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
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
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
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
Paul Falstad: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
PhET: U-CO at
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
Sketch
solution to Problem 6-61 in 4th (6-62 in 5th)
Start
Mar 26
Special Lecture: Professor
Alexander Feher, Institute of Physics,
Discussion
about “Superconductivity” (Read Sec. 10-9)
Week 13 Mar
31 Finish
three (3) particles, total wave function.
Apr 02
Sections
8.2, 8.3
BEC at
Required
Science 29
February 2008: 1203-1205
Quiz 10
(material in class and texts as related to
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?
and ONLINE Liquid Drop and Nuclear Safety Issues
“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
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