Lecture: 11:10-12:20 MWF, Youngchild 161
Professor: Matthew R. Stoneking
Office hours: Tues. & Thurs. 9:00-11:00, or by appointment
Laboratory: 1:10-4:00 W or Th, Youngchild 91
Instructor: Brian Davis
A continuation of Physics 10. Physics 11 is divided between classical and modern topics, including electricity and magnetism, circuits, special relativity, quantum aspects of nature, atomic and nuclear structure, and elementary particles.
Physics, Principles with Applications, 5th Edition, by Douglas C. Giancoli, Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1998).
Final grades will be based on the following weighted components:
There will be two midterm exams and one final, comprehensive exam. Each exam will be closed book. Required formulae will be provided on the exam, but you will need to be able to recognize the meaning of the symbols in each formula and how to use them to solve problems such as those encountered in homework and lecture examples. Exam problems will be a mixture of quantitative problems like those encountered in homework sets and conceptual problems (multiple choice and short answer) like those encountered on weekly quizzes.
A list of laboratory topics for each week is given below. Mr. Davis will provide details on the operation of the laboratory portion of the course, including grading policies for labs.
Every Wednesday, homework sets will be collected for grading. No late submissions will be accepted. Homework assignments will focus on quantitative problems. You are strongly urged to work additional problems on your own, beyond those that are required.
Every Friday (expect on Midterm exam days, winter break and the last class of the term) there will be a short (10 minute) quiz. Weekly quizzes will focus on conceptual problems, will generally be multiple choice, short answer and/or true-false questions that test your understanding of the concepts covered in the lectures and reading assignments for that week.
Help sessions will be every Tues. and Thurs. evening (7-9 pm) in Youngchild Hall, Room 90 (beginning Thurs. 7 Jan.). A student assistant will run most of these sessions.
Most important chapters for the MCAT exam: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
22, 28, 30.
Chapter 29 on Molecules and Solids and
Chapter 33 on Astrophysics and Cosmology will not be
covered in this course, but I recommend you read these
chapters sometime during the term.
Day 1 (Jan. 4): Giancoli, 16.1-16.4
Overview of the course, general observations about static
charge and the electric force.
Day 2 (Jan. 6): Giancoli, 16.5-16.6
Coulomb's Law for the electrostatic force.
Day 3 (Jan. 8): Giancoli, 16.7-16.8
The electric field, electric field lines, the parallel plate capacitor
Day 4 (Jan. 11): Giancoli, 17.1-17.11
Electric potential, capacitance, dielectrics, equipotential
contours and the ECG
Day 5 (Jan. 13): Giancoli, 18.1-18.4
Electric current, Ohm's Law, resistance and resitivity
Day 6 (Jan. 15): Giancoli, 18.6,19.1-19.7
Electric power and DC circuits, combining resistors
and capacitors, exponential decay in an RC circuit
Day 7 (Jan. 18): Giancoli, 20.1-20.3
Magnetism, Oersted's
observation and the magnetic force on a current carrying wire
Day 8 (Jan. 20): Giancoli, 20.4-20.7
Magnetic forces on parallel current carrying wires, definition
of magnetic field and the Ampere, and the Lorentz force
Day 9 (Jan. 22): Giancoli, 20.14
Magnetic fields, solenoids and electromagnets
Day 11 (Jan. 27): Giancoli, 21.7-21.13
Transformers, inductance, inductors, AC circuits, phasors, impedance
Day 12 (Jan. 29): HOUR EXAM #1
Day 13 (Feb. 2): Giancoli, 21.14, 22.1-22.5
Resonant circuits, Ampere's Law, Maxwell's correction,
electromagnetic waves and radiating antennae
Day 14 (Feb. 3): Giancoli, 26.1-26.4
Galilean relativity, Einstein's postulates, synchronization of
clocks, and simultaneity
Day 15 (Feb. 8): Giancoli, 26.5-26.7
Time dilation, the twin paradox, length contraction and
four dimensional spacetime
Day 16 (Feb. 10): Giancoli, 26.8-26.12
Velocity addition, relativistic momentum and energy and rest
mass energy (E=mc2).
Day 17 (Feb. 12): Giancoli, 27.1
A brief history of atomic theory, the cathode ray tube, the
electron and Millikan's oil drop experiment
Day 18 (Feb. 15): Giancoli, 27.2-27.4, 27.8
Photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, the photon, Thomson's
plum pudding model of the atom and Rutherford's
scattering experiment
Day 19 (Feb. 17): Giancoli, 27.9-27.11
Spectroscopy, atomic spectra, the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom
Day 20 (Feb. 19): Giancoli, 27.5-27.6
The wave nature of matter, de Broglie wavelengths, X-ray
and electron diffraction compared.
Day 21 (Feb. 22): Giancoli, 28.1-28.4
Quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle,
philosophical interpretations, Schrodinger's cat
Day 22 (Feb. 24): Giancoli, 28.5-28.8
Quantum mechanical wave functions, quantum numbers, the hydrogen
atom, the Pauli exclusion principle, and the periodic table of elements.
Day 23 (Feb. 26): HOUR EXAM #2
Day 24 (Mar. 1): Giancoli, 28.9, 30.1, 30.8-30.10
Moseley's determination of atomic numbers, the neutron, isotopes,
the chart of the nuclides, radioactivity, radioactive decay
Day 25 (Mar. 3): Giancoli, 31.5, 30.2,31.1-31.3
Radiation dosimetry, nuclear binding energy, nuclear
fission, and nuclear fusion
Day 26 (Mar. 5): Giancoli, 31.6-31.9
Nuclear medicine
Day 27 (Mar. 8): Giancoli, 32.1-32.4
Fundamental forces, mediating (or messenger) particles, Yukawa's
hypothesis, the neutrino, and the positron.
Day 28 (Mar. 10): Giancoli, 32.5-32.8
Two body versus three body decay, muons, mesons, conservation
of lepton numbers, and strange particles
Day 29 (Mar. 12): Giancoli, 32.8-32.10
Gell-Mann's periodic table for elementary particles
and the quark model
Final Exam: Tuesday 16 March 8:30 am