“in vivo” schedule (black text: projected and tentative; blue text: past;
red text: projected quizzes and exams; green text: fixed final exams)
Note: revisions will be announced in class and subsequently posted online.
Week 1 Aug 24 Introduction
to the Course and
Homework Problems
Aug 26 Continue
Aug
27 Continue
Extra-Credit
1 (5 pts) due at the start of class.
Week 2 Aug 31 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
02 Start
Sept
04 Continue
Quiz
1 (material to end of Aug 31 and
Week 3 Sept 07 No
Class: Labor Day
Sept
09 Review Quiz 1, Continue
Sept
11 Finish non-relativistic
alpha-electron scattering problem.
Quiz
2 (material to end of Sept 4)
Week 4 Sept 14 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
16 Continue
Sept
18 Continue
Quiz
3 (material covered Sept. 9 to end of Sept. 14)
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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 21 Review
for MTE1. Email questions before 8 am!
Sept
23 Review for MTE1 in class,
but NO H-ITT on this day.
MTE1: 8:20 pm to 10:10 pm
(covering material from start to end of 18 Sept)
(covering material from class and in
NOT
covering General Relativity from
NOT
covering Photoelectric Effect, Compton Effect in
LIT
101 (“A” – “H”) and LIT 113 (“K” – “Z”) map
LIT
= Little Hall
Sept 25 Review MTE 1.
Photoelectric Effect and Compton Effect/Scattering.
Quiz
4 (will be over material that was “fair” for MTE1)
Week 6 Sept 28 Review Quiz 4. Start
Homework Problems for Ch.
4: 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 25, 45.
Rutherford
Scattering: additional assigned reading
“
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Rutherford_Scattering/Rutherford_Scattering.html
Sept 30 Ch.
4 continued. Rutherford Scattering in detail, started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzZvzGkr48
Oct
02 Ch. 4 continued. Rutherford Scattering
finished, with movie.
Quiz
5 (focusing on material from
Week 7 Oct 05 Review Quiz 5. Bohr Model. Finish
Oct
07 Start
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
09 Ch. 5 continued.
Quiz
6 (focusing on material in
Week 8 Oct 12 Review Quiz 6. Finish
Oct 14 Start
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]
Oct
16 No Class, UF Homecoming
Week 9 Oct 19
Oct
21 Ch. 6 continued. S.E. and 1D Infinite Square
Well.
Oct
23 Ch. 6 continued. Finish 1D Infinite Square Well.
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 Boulder:
http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Quantum_Tunneling_and_Wave_Packets
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Week 10 Oct 26 Review
Quiz 7.
Review for MTE2. Email questions
by 8 am!
Oct 28 Review for MTE2. No H-ITT in class on this day.
MTE2: 8:20 pm to 10:10 pm, PUGH 170
(Focus
on material since MTE1 to end of Friday, 23 Oct.:
meaning, nominally material in
Ch.
4, Ch. 5, and
Oct
30 Review MTE2.
Quiz
8 (from material covered for MTE2).
Week 11 Nov 02 Review Quiz 8. Continue Ch. 6 material. Handout. 5-2 HITT start.
Nov
04 Continue
Nov
06 Continue
Quiz
9 (focus on material in
Do-at-Home
and Submit-at-Start of Class (Hardcopy)!
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.
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
Week 12 Nov 09 Finish
Homework Prob. Ch.7: 1, 9, 19, 25
Nov
11 No Class, Veterans Day
Nov
13 Continue
Week 13 Nov 16 Finish
BEC
at
Required
Science 29
February 2008: 1203-1205
Nov
18 Continue Ch. 8.
Nov 20 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
Week 14 Nov 23 Review Quiz 10. Quantum Cats and Computers: “Food for
thought?”
Nov
25 Reading Day (individual study due to evening exams)
Nov
27 No Class, Thanksgiving
Week 15 Nov 30 “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 02 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 04 Review for
MTE3 and Final. Email questions before 8 AM.
Quiz
11 (focus on material from 13 – 23 Nov)
Week 16 Dec 07 Review
Quiz 11.
Review for MTE3.
MTE3: 8:20 pm to 10:10 pm, NPB 1002
Dec 09 Review MTE 3 and Review for Final. Last Day of Classes
Dec 10 No Class, Reading/Review Break
Final Exam (Group 14E): Monday, 14 December, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, all
material covered.
ROOM NPB 1001 (large lecture hall
next to NPB 1002, our regular classroom known as the small lecture hall in the
NOTE: Absences from the Final
Exam must be documented to be considered for “make-up”.
In other words, the “swine flu”
policy does not apply to the Final Exam.
See Syllabus for a
detailed description of documentation that is needed.
Reference: http://www.admin.ufl.edu/ddd/default.asp?doc=15.5.2440.6