Dates when topics are
covered in class AND test and
homework assignment due dates are SUBJECT TO CHANGE. I will update this regularly, adding HW and reading assignments several lectures ahead of
time.
The homeworks are either from Mastering Physics
(MP) or written (WH) and are to be handed in during class.
All Mastering Physics HWs are to be
finished by 11:40 AM of the day they are due. All HWs count towards
your grade unless explicitly noted.
In
Mastering Physics, always answer numerical questions with 3 significant figures
unless the problem
specifically requests that you do otherwise. CAUTION: Do not wait until the last
minute to work and
submit your Mastering Physics homework. It is a computer-based system. Things go wrong
with computers.
I will not accept "computer problems" as an
excuse for not being able to submit Mastering Physics homework on time.
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Reading
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Homework Assignment Due Dates MP = Mastering Physics |
#1 |
Intro to course |
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#2 |
Electromagnetic Waves; Maxwell's equations, Derivation of wave equation. Reading: Chap 32.1-32.2 |
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#3 |
Sinusoidal electromganetic waves, Energy and Momentum in electromagnetic waves. Reading: Chap 32.3-32.4 |
MP: HW #1 |
#4 |
Energy and Momentum in electromagnetic waves, Standing electromagnetic waves. Reading: Chap 32.4-32.5 |
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#5 |
Nature of light; Reflection and Refraction, Total internal reflection. Reading: Chap 33.1-33.3 |
WH: HW #2 (Problems: 32.39, 32.40, 32.43, 32.45) |
#6 |
Dispersion, Polarization. Reading: Chap 33.4-33.5
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MP: HW #3 |
#7 |
Scattering of light, Huygens's principle. Reading: Chap 33.6-33.7 |
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Geometric Optics; Reflection and Refraction at plane surfaces, Reflection at spherical surfaces. Reading: Chap 34.1-34.2 |
WH: HW #4 (Problems: 33.49, 33.51, 33.61, 33.63) |
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Reflection at spherical surfaces, Refraction at spherical surfaces, Thin lenses. Reading: Chap 34.2-34.4 |
MP: HW #5 |
#10 |
Thin lenses. Reading: Chap 34.4 |
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#11 |
Cameras, the Human eye. Reading: Chap 34.5-34.6 |
WH: HW #6 (Problems: 34.83, 34.85, 34.93, 34.105) |
#12 |
Magnifier, Microscopes and Telescopes. Reading: Chap 34.7-34.8 |
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#13 |
TEST 1: All Topics in Chaps 32-34 |
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#14 |
Interference; Interference and coherent sources, Two-source interference. Reading: Chap 35.1-35.2 |
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#15 |
Intensity in interference patterns, Interference in thin films. Reading: Chap 35.3-35.4 |
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#16 |
Interference in thin films, Michelson interferometer. Reading: Chap. 35.4-35.5 |
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#17 |
Diffraction; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, Single slit diffraction. Reading: Chap 36.1-36.2 |
MP: HW #7
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#18 |
Intensity in single-slit pattern, Multiple slits, Diffraction grating. Reading: Chap 36.3-36.5 |
WH: HW #8 (Problems: 35.41, 35.47, 35.49, 35.57)
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#19 |
X-ray diffraction, Circular aperture diffraction, Holography. Reading: Chap 36.6-36.8 |
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#20 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 1 |
MP: HW #9 |
#21 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 1 |
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TEST 2: All Topics in Chaps 35-36 |
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#23 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 2
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Spring Break |
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#24 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 2 |
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#25 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 3 |
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#26 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 4 |
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#27 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 5 |
WH: HW #11 (Problems: R1B.4, R1S.10, R2B.6, R2S.11) |
#28 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 6 |
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#29 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 7 |
MP: HW #12 |
#30 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 8 |
WH: HW #13 (Problems: R4B.4, R4S.2, R5B.3, R5S.4) |
#31 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 9 |
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#32 |
Special Relativity. Reading: Six Ideas - Chap 10 |
MP: HW #14 |
#33 |
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WH: HW #15 (Problems: R7S.6, R8B.2, R9B.9, R10S.9) |
#34 |
TEST 3: Special Relativity |
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#35 |
Photons; Photoelectric effect, X-ray production. Reading: 38.1-38.2
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#36 |
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#37 |
Compton scattering, Pair production. Reading: 38.3
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#38 |
Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Reading: 38.4 |
MP: HW #16 |
#39 |
Particles Behaving as Waves; Electron waves, Nuclear atoms. Reading: Ch 39.1-39.2 |
WH: HW #17 (Problems: 38.32, 38.34, 38.35, 38.41) |
#40 |
Bohr model of the atom, Laser. Reading: Chapter 39.3-39.5 |
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#41 |
Continuous spectra, Uncertainty principle (revisited). Reading: Chap 39.5-39.6 |
MP: HW #18 |
#42 |
Quantum Mechanics; Wave functions and Schrodinger equation, Particle in a box.
Reading: Chap 40.1-40.2 |
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#43 |
Potential wells, Potential barrirs and Tunneling. Reading: Chap 40.3-40.4 |
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#44 |
Harmonic oscillator. Reading: Chap 40.5 |
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F, 16 MAY |
FINAL EXAM |
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