PHY 3063 Spring 2010

PHY 3063 Spring 2010 (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 05 Introduction to the Course and Ch. 1

Homework from Textbook:

HW Ch. 1: 11, 13, 21, 25, 30, 33, 38, 41, 43, 49, 55, 57

                                                HW Ch.2: 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29, 37, 40, 47 (48 in 5th Ed), 49 (50 in 5th Ed)
                                                Solution to Problem 2-21 (in PDF format)
                         Jan 07             Ch. 1 continued. EC1 (5 pts, in class)

Week 2 Jan 12 Finish Ch. 1 and Doppler Effect.
Start Ch. 2 (at most to the end of Sec. 2-4).

Jan 14 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 19 Start Ch. 3: demo of photoelectric effect

HW Ch. 3: 13, 17, 21, 28, 36, 47, 51, 56, and

Derivation of Compton’s Equation (p138-5th ed, p153-4th ed)

Start Blackbody Radiation in DETAIL

Jan 21 Continue Detailed Discussion of Blackbody Radiation

Quiz 2 (material in class and text as related to Ch. 2 and
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 26             Continue and Finish Blackbody Radiation Discussion
                        Jan 28             A few last comments on Ch. 3.
                                                Start Ch. 4 and work on Rutherford Scattering. Imaging Excercise.
                                                HW Ch. 4: 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 24, 25, 45, 54
                                                 Rutherford Scattering set-up: additional assigned reading

“Rutherford as Alpha-Male” by M. Fowler,

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Rutherford_Scattering/Rutherford_Scattering.html

and view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzZvzGkr48

Quiz 3 (material in class and text as related to Ch. 3, except Blackbody Radiation)

Week 5 Feb 02 Continue with Ch. 4: Rutherford Scattering full blast, "Laser Disc" Movie and "radiometer" demo

Feb 04 Continue Ch. 4: Final comments Rutherford Scattering, The Bohr Model and finite mass corrections

Quiz 4 (material in class and texts as related to Blackbody Radiation)
Extra-Credit 2 and 3 (5 points each)

Week 6 Feb 09 Extra-Credit 2 and 3 (5 points each) Due at start of Class.
Finish Ch. 4: Sommerfeld’s Theory and related. Start Ch. 5.

HW Ch. 5: 9, 17, 29, 33, [37 in 4th = 38 in 5th], [39 in 4th = 41 in 5th] [48 in 4th = 50 in 5th]

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.

Feb 11 Continue Ch. 5, Preamble about Ch. 6 and HANDOUT on Energy Barriers and Wavefunctions

HW Ch. 6: 7, 16, [25 in 4th = 26 in 5th],

[41-42 in 4th = 43-44 in 5th], [47 in 4th = 49 in 5th]

(qualitative introduction/motivatopn Schrödinger Equation)
Quiz 5 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 4, excluding material on Feb. 09 lecture)

Week 7 Feb 16 Continue Ch. 6, free particle and infinite square well

                        Feb 18             Continue Ch. 6
                                                HW: email question/problems for Review of Feb. 23, email to be sent before NOON on Feb. 22
                                                Quiz 6 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 5)

Week 8 Feb 23 Review for MTE 1 and Q-A Session
Feb 25 Mid-term Exam (MTE) 1 (material up to the end of 18 Feb)

Week 9 Mar 02 Return MTE 1, Discuss Reading Assignment, Continue Ch. 6

Define Quiz 8 (do at home, due at the start of class on March 23)

Mar 04 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)
                                                Reading: 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)

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”.

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 16 A Reading/Working Day: Review Previous "Outside Readings" (see March 04),
reading and HW problems in Ch. 6 beyond sections 1 and 2 (try Problem 6-61),

and work on "do-at-home" Quiz 8 (due at start of class on March 23).
No formal lecture.

Mar 18 Guest Lecture: Professor James N. Fry, Department of Physics, UF

"Dark Matter and Related Topics: a modern perspective of the cosmos"

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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 23 Quiz 8 ("do-at-home" and due at START of today’s class)

Discuss results of quizzes 7 and 8
QM operators and expectation values, link to Uncertainty and Measurement

Mar 25 Quiz 9 (material in class and texts since MTE1)

Finite 1D Square Well and Simple Harmonic Osc. (SHO) potentials

Leave Step potentials for "HW", R + T = 1, Start preliminary discussion of barriers

Week 13            Mar 30          Sketch solution to Problem 6-61 in 4th (6-62 in 5th)
                                                Start Ch. 7 and HW Ch. 7: 1, 9, 19, 24, 25, 68, 70

Apr 01 Finish Ch. 7: angular momentum, spin, and three (3) particles, total wave function.

Quiz 10 (material in class and texts as related to Ch. 6 covered

to the end of lecture on 25 March)

Week 14 Apr 05 (Monday) Email quesionts/issues by NOON today. NOTE: No Office Hour at 3 pm today.
Apr 06 Review for Mid-term Exam 2, email questions/issues by Noon on April 5

Apr 08 Mid-term Exam 2 (All of Ch. 6 and Ch. 7; and material in texts, readings, lectures since MTE1 to end 01 April.)

Week 15 Apr 13 Review MTE2

Resolve “party” arrangements?

Sections 8.2, 8.3

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

and ONLINE Liquid Drop and Nuclear Safety Issues

Required Readings:

“Radiation Risk and Ethics”, by Zbigniew Jaworowski

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