“in vivo” schedule (black text: projected and tentative; blue text: past;
red text: projected quizzes and exams and extra credit; green text: fixed final exams)
Note: revisions will be announced in class and subsequently posted online.
Week 1 Aug 23 Introduction
to the Course and
Homework Problems
Aug
25 Continue
Aug
27 Continue
Extra-Credit 1 (5 pts) due
at the start of class.
Week 2 Aug 30 Finish
Homework Problems Ch.2: 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29, 37, 40
H-ITT points are recorded today and onward:
H-ITT 1 done.
Sept
01 Start
Sept
03 Continue
Quiz
1 (material to end of Aug 30 and
Week 3 Sept 06 No
Class: Labor Day
Sept
08 Review Quiz 1, Continue Ch.
2, work alpha-electron problem.
Sept
10 Finish non-relativistic
alpha-electron scattering problem.
Quiz
2 (material to end of Sept 03)
Week 4 Sept 13 Review Quiz 2. p + p --> p + p + p + p (anti-p)
Problem
2-21. Review Relativity (
Start Ch. 3, Millikan (see below),
Homework Problems for Ch. 3: 13, 17, 21,
and
Derivation of
Sept
15 Continue
Sept
17 Continue
Quiz
3 (material covered Sept. 08 to end of Sept. 13)
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Assigned Step 1: Read the text about
Millikan’s Experiment and online textbook blurb.
Assigned Step 2: Feynman? Try: Cargo Cult Science:
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf
“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.”
Optional Step 3: Ethics? Try:
Case
Study 2: The Millikan Case - Discrimination Versus
Manipulation of Data
http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/edu/precol/scienceclass/sectone/cs2.aspx
(Online
Assigned Step 4: Repeat Step 1? Your thoughts?
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Week 5 Sept 20 Review
for MTE1. Email questions before 8 am!
Sept
22 Review for MTE1 in class,
but NO H-ITT on this day.
MTE1: 8:20 pm to 10:10 pm, FLG 210 (A-M)
and FLG 230 (N-Z)
(covering material from start to 17 September)
(covering material from class, assigned readings, and in
Ch.
1, 2 (no General Relativity), 3 (not the Compton Effect for this exam)
Sept 24 Review MTE 1.
Compton Effect/Scattering.
Quiz
4 (will be over material that was “fair” for MTE1)
Week 6 Sept 27 Review Quiz 4. Finish
Sept
29 Start
Rutherford
Scattering and Rutherford Scattering “movie”.
Additional
assigned reading:
“
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Rutherford_Scattering/Rutherford_Scattering.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzZvzGkr48
Oct
01 Ch. 4 continued. Bohr Model.
Quiz 5
(focusing on material from
Week 7 Oct 04 Review Quiz 5. Finish
Oct
06 Ch. 5 continued.
Homework Prob. Ch. 5: 9, 17, 29, 33, [41 5th ed = 39 4th ed],
[50
5th ed = 48 4th ed].
Acoustics and Vibration Animations, Dan Russell, Kettering Univ.
The uncertainty principle, by
Mountain Math Software
Wave
Packets by Michael Fowler, University of Virginia
Group
Velocity vs Phase Velocity by Kyle Forinash, Indiana Univ.
Oct
08 Finish
Homework
Prob. Ch. 6: 5, 7, 9, 16,
[24-25
4th ed = 25-26 5th ed], [28 4th ed = 29 5th ed],
[41-42
4th ed = 43-44 5th ed], [47 4th ed = 49 5th ed]
Quiz
6 (focusing on material in
Week 8 Oct 11 Review Quiz 6. Continue
Oct
13 Continue
Oct
15 No Class, UF Homecoming
Week 9 Oct 18
Oct
20 Ch. 6 continued. S.E.: 1D Infinite Square Well, Operators,
and Expectation Values.
Oct
22 Ch. 6 continued. 1D Infinite Square Well and
Expectation Values.
Quiz
7 (focusing on material from
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LINKS: Some Links for QM barriers and wells
and orbitals
IBM
Quantum Corrals: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/
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 10 Oct 25 Review
Quiz 7.
Review for MTE2. Email questions by 8 am!
Oct 27 Review for
MTE2. No H-ITT in class on this
day.
MTE2: 8:20 pm to 10:10 pm, PUGH 170 (all)
(Focus
on material since MTE1 to end of 22 October:
meaning, nominally material in
Oct
29 Review MTE2.
Quiz
8 (from material covered for MTE2).
Week 11 Nov 01 Review Quiz 8. Continue Ch. 6 material: Finite Square Well
to Steps.
Handout. 5-2 HITT
start and interwoven with 2-1 HITT.
Nov
03 Continue
Nov
05 Continue
Homework Prob. Ch.7: 1, 9, 19, 25
Quiz
9
(Do-at-Home, Submit-at-Start of Class (Hardcopy, 1 page)!
Run: PhET: U-CO at
http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Quantum_Tunneling_and_Wave_Packets
Do
a “screen capture” (Print Screen) and Print or Paste to Document
and Print and Comment on your plot. Assignments are:
Birth
DAY 01-07: Well
Birth
DAY 08-14: Barrier
Birth
DAY 15-21: into a Step
Birth
DAY 22-31: off a Step
Birth
Month EVEN: E of particle less than V
Birth
Month ODD: E of particle greater than V
If
unphysical situation arises, then run one of the other choices.
Week 12 Nov 08 Continue
Nov
10 Guest Lecture: Professor
Field:
Particle Physics: up to the Standard Model and Beyond
(Assigned
reading before class: Ch. 13 in 4th ed. or Ch. 12 in 5th ed.
No
specific problems are assigned, but the reading is required.)
Nov
12 Guest Lecture: Professor
Fry:
Dark
Matter and Related Topics: a perspective of the cosmos
(Assigned
reading before class: Ch. 14 in 4th ed. or Ch. 13 in 5th ed.
No
specific problems are assigned, but the reading is required.)
Week 13 Nov 15 Finish
Email
Meisel if using “Make-Up” Day, Deadline 17 Nov.
Nov
17 Finish
BEC at
Science 29
February 2008: 1203-1205
Nov
19 Continue Ch. 8.
Ch.
11 in 5th ed (Ch. 11-12 in
4th ed) Nuclear Physics and Energy.
ONLINE Liquid Drop and Nuclear Safety Issues
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
Quiz
10 (focus on Ch. 7)
Week 14 Nov 22 Review Quiz 10.
Finish
Doctor
honoris causa at Šafárik University in Košice,
Slovakia
Nov
24 Reading Day (individual study due to evening exams)
Nov
26 No Class, Thanksgiving
Week 15 Nov 29 “Make-Up” Day
(only for students requesting make-up for excused absences)
Email Prof. Meisel in advance: list the
dates that you missed
and the material that you want to make-up.
Dec
01 Finish
Student Evaluations!
Extra Credit (5
pts) due at start of class,
1 page (single-sided, typed) (not to be read until after course ends):
“What I think I know and What
I need to know better and What I do not yet know”.
Dec 03 Review for MTE3 and Final. Email questions before 8 AM.
Quiz 11 (focus on material from
Week 16 Dec 06 Review Quiz 11. Review for MTE3.
MTE3: 8:20 pm to
10:10 pm, Weil 270 (all),
covering material in class and textbook from MTE2 to 01 Dec,
additional details to be announced.
Dec 08 Review MTE 3 and Review for Final. Last Day of Classes
Dec 10 No Class, Reading/Review Break
Final Exam (Group 15E): Wendesday, 15
December, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, all material covered.
ROOM NPB 1001 (the BIG lecture
room in NPB next to our lecture room).