PHY 2061 Lecture Notes

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Tuesday January 6, 2004:

PHY 2061 Spring 2004
Introduction: The Simple Structure of our Universe
Introduction: Labeling the Particles - Quantum Numbers
Introduction: Leptons & Anti-Leptons
Introduction: Quarks & Anti-Quarks
Introduction: Vector Bosons
Introduction: Hadrons - PseudoScalar Meson Nonet
Introduction: Hadrons - ½+ Baryon Octet
Chapter 25: Electrostatic Force and Electric Charge
Chapter 25: Units
Chapter 25: Electrostatic Force versus Gravity
Chapter 25: Vector Forces
Chapter 25: Vectors & Vector Addition
Chapter 25: The Electric Dipole

Thursday January 8, 2004:

Chapter 26: The Electric Field
Chapter 26: Electric Field Lines
Chapter 26: Electric Field due to a Distribution of Charge
Chapter 26: Charge Distributions
Chapter 26: Calculating the Electric Field (1)
Chapter 26: Some Useful Math
Chapter 26: Calculating the Electric Field (2)
Chapter 26: Calculating the Electric Field (3)

Tuesday January 13, 2004:

Chapter 27: Flux of a Vector Field
Chapter 27: Electric Flux and Gauss' Law
Chapter 27: Conductors in Static Equilibrium
Chapter 27: Gauss' Law Examples

Thursday January 15, 2004:

Vector Analysis: Divergence of a Vector Function
Vector Analysis: Divergence Theorem
Vector Analysis: Divergence of the Electric Field
Vector Analysis: Gauss' Law
Vector Analysis: Curl of a Vector Function
Vector Analysis: Stokes' Theorem
Vector Analysis: The Curl of a Radial Function

Tuesday January 20, 2004:

Vector Analysis: Gradient of a Scalar Function
Vector Analysis: Line Integral of a Vector Function
Vector Analysis: Question
Vector Analysis: Curl of the Electrostatic Field
Vector Analysis: Identities
Vector Analysis: Summary

Thursday January 22, 2004:

Chapter 28: Gravitational Potential Energy
Chapter 28: Electric Potential Energy
Chapter 28: Accelerating Charged Particles
Chapter 28: Potential Energy & Electric Potential
Chapter 28: The Electric Potential of a Point Charge
Chapter 28: Electric Potential due to a Distribution of Charge
Chapter 28: Calculating the Electric Potential

Tuesday January 27, 2004:

Chapter 28: Electric Potential Energy
Chapter 28: Stored Electric Potential Energy
Chapter 29: Charge Transport and Current Density
Chapter 29: Electrical Conductivity and Ohms Law

Thursday January 29, 2004:

Chapter 30: Capacitors & Capacitance
Chapter 30: Capacitors in Series & Parallel
Chapter 30: Energy Density of the Electric Field
Chapter 30: Electric Energy Examples

Tuesday February 3, 2004:

Chapter 31: Direct Current (DC) Circuits
Chapter 31: DC Circuit Rules
Chapter 31: Resistors in Series & Parallel
Chapter 31: Charging a Capacitor
Chapter 31: Discharging a Capacitor

Thursday February 5, 2004:

Relativity: Postulates of Special Relativity
Relativity: Lorentz Transformation
Relativity: 4-Vector Notation
Relativity: Analogy with Rotations
Relativity: Space-Time Intervals
Relativity: Moving Clocks & Simultaneity
Relativity: Moving Lengths

Tuesday February 10, 2004:

Relativity: Velocity Transformations
Relativity: Relativistic Energy and Momentum
Relativity: Relativistic Kinetic Energy (derivation)
Relativity: Relativistic Energy and Momentum
Relativity: Force Transformations

Thursday February 12, 2004:

Relativity: Invariance of Electric Charge
Relativity: Moving Charge Density
Relativity: Electric Field Measured in Different Frames
Relativity: Electric Field of a Moving Charge Particle
Relativity: Electric Field of a Moving Charge Particle
Relativity: Force on a Charged Particle in an E-Field

Tuesday February 24, 2004:

Relativity: Interaction of a Moving Charge with a Current Carrying Wire
Relativity: Interaction of a Moving Charge with other Moving Charges - Case I
Relativity: Interaction of a Moving Charge with other Moving Charges - Case II
Relativity: Transformation Properties of E and B
Relativity: Magnetic Field of a Moving Charged Particle
Relativity: Force Between Two Moving Charged Particles

Thursday February 26, 2004:

Chapter 32: The Electromagnetic Force
Chapter 32: The Magnetic Force
Chapter 32: Vector Multiplication: Dot & Cross
Chapter 32: Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
Chapter 32: Circular Motion: Magnetic vs Gravitational

Tuesday March 2, 2004:

Chapter 33: The Magnetic Field Produced by a Current
Chapter 33: Calculating the Magnetic Field (1)
Chapter 33: Calculating the Magnetic Field (2)
Chapter 33: Ampere's Law
Chapter 33: Ampere's Law Examples
Chapter 33: The Curl of the Magnetic Field

Thursday March 4, 2004:

Tuesday March 16, 2004:

Chapter 36: Mutual & Self Inductance
Chapter 36: Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field
Chapter 36: RL Circuits
Chapter 36: Simple Harmonic Motion
Chapter 36: SHM Differential Equation
Chapter 36: The Complex Plane
Chapter 36: Capacitors and Inductors
Chapter 36: An LC Circuit
Chapter 36: LC Oscillations
Chapter 36: Mechanical Analogy
Chapter 36: Another Differential Equation
Chapter 36: An LRC Circuit

Thursday March 18, 2004:

Chapter 38: Maxwell's Equations (integral form)
Chapter 38: The Curl of the Electric Field
Chapter 38: Maxwell's Equations (differential form)
Chapter 38: Finding the Missing Term (differential method)
Chapter 38: Finding the Missing Term (integral method)
Chapter 38: Complete Maxwell's Equations (integral form)
Chapter 38: Complete Maxwell's Equations (differential form)
Chapter 38: Electric & Magnetic Fields that Change with Time

Tuesday March 23, 2004:

Chapter 38: Traveling Waves
Chapter 38: The Wave Equation
Chapter 38: Light Propagating in Empty Space
Chapter 38: Electromagnetic Plane Waves (1)
Chapter 38: Electromagnetic Plane Waves (2)
Chapter 38: Energy Transport - Poynting Vector
Chapter 38: Momentum Transport - Radiation Pressure
Chapter 38: The Radiation Power of the Sun

Thursday March 25, 2004:

Chapter 39: Relativistic Doppler Shift (source moving away)
Chapter 39: Relativistic Doppler Shift (general case)
Chapter 39: Geometric Optics
Chapter 39: Law of Refraction
Chapter 39: Total Internal Reflection
Chapter 39: Refraction Examples

Tuesday April 6, 2004:

Chapter 40: Spherical Mirrors
Chapter 40: Mirror Equation
Chapter 40: Mirror Examples (1)
Chapter 40: Mirror Examples (2)
Chapter 40: Thin Lens Formula
Chapter 40: Thin Lens (converging)
Chapter 40: Thin Lens (diverging)
Chapter 40: Two-Lens Systems
Chapter 40: Two-Lens Systems Examples

Thursday April 8, 2004:

Chapter 41: Light as a Wave - Interference
Chapter 41: Interference
Chapter 41: Interference Examples
Chapter 41: Representing Waves as Complex Numbers
Chapter 41: Double Slit Interference
Chapter 41: Double Slit Intensity Pattern

Tuesday April 13, 2004:

Chapter 41: Thin Film Interference
Chapter 41: Interference Problems

Thursday April 15, 2004:

Chapter 42: Narrow Slit Diffraction
Chapter 42: Single-Slit Diffraction Intensity Pattern (1)
Chapter 42: Single-Slit Diffraction Intensity Pattern (2)
Chapter 42: Diffraction Summary
Chapter 42: Resolving Power
Chapter 42: Diffraction Examples

Rick Field - January 1, 2004