Prof. Douglas Fields
Email: fields@unm.edu
Office: PAIS 3220
Monday, Wednsday and Friday, 12:00 - 12:50, PAIS 1100. Videos of all of the lectures are posted below. You are required to watch these lectures BEFORE CLASS, and there will be clicker questions on them at the beginning of class. Be aware, time sensitive material in the recorded lectures should be ignored.
Textbook for the class
Young and Friedman, University Physics, 14th
Edition, Pierson, Addison, Wesley.
You will also need Mastering Physics access (Course ID = fields89249).
Additional resources
Six Ideas that Shaped Physics:
Unit R" for a good explaination of space-time diagrams and special relativity.
Instructor
Before or after class times, or during problem sessions (see below).
The grading in the course will be based on your performance in mastering physics homework, in-class clicker quizzes,
four midterm exams and a final exam. The maximum grade will be 100 points, with the following distribution:
You will need access to MasteringPhysics The class code for MasteringPhysics is fields89249. Homework is due by class start on the day shown below. Late assignments are reduced by 5 percent per hour.
You will either need an iClicker or use your phone with the REEF Polling app. To join the class, go to https://join.iclicker.com/BLLZ .
Listed officially as Phyc 2311. There will be three times for problem sessions per week. You are strongly urged to attend at least one of these per week. Initially, I have set these times to be:
Week/Lec.# | Date | Before Class Reading | Homework | Subject | Demonstrations |
1/1 | Mon. 08/21 | Ch. 14.1 | Class Introduction and Review of Periodic Motion Movie | Harmonic Motion and Rotation | |
1/2 | Wed. 08/23 | Ch. 14.2, 14.3 | Simple Harmonic Oscillators Movie | Pendula | |
1/3 | Fri. 08/25 | Normal Modes Simulation | Coupled Harmonic Oscillators Movie | Coupled Pendula | |
2/4 | Mon. 08/28 | Ch. 15.1, 15.2 | Ch 14 HW |
Mechanical Waves Movie | Wave tables, Longitudinal waves, and waves on a string |
2/5 | Wed. 08/30 | Ch. 15.3, 15.4, 15.5 | Wave velocity and the Wave Equation Movie | Waves on a string | |
2/6 | Fri. 09/01 | Ch. 15.6 | Boundaries, Reflection, Refraction and Superposition Movie | Wave tables and waves on a string | |
Mon. 09/04 | No Class, Labor Day | ||||
3/7 | Wed. 09/06 | Ch. 15.7, 15.8 | Standing Waves and Normal Modes Movie | Standing Waves | |
3/8 | Fri. 09/08 | Fourier Transforms and Fourier Transforms | Ch 15 HW |
Wave Pulses and Fourier Transforms Movie | Waves on a string |
4/9 | Mon. 09/11 | Ch. 16.1, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8 | Interference, Beats and Doppler Effect Movie | Ripple tank, Beats, Doppler ball | |
Wed. 09/13 | Ch. 14 - Ch. 16 | Ch 16 HW |
Exam 1 Mechanical Waves | ||
4/10 | Fri. 09/15 | Ch. 32.1, 32.2 and Yale Lecture on Maxwell's Equations | Maxwell's Equations Movie | Standing Waves | |
5/11 | Mon. 09/18 | Ch. 32.3 | Plane Waves and EM Waves in Matter Movie | White board optics | |
5/12 | Wed. 09/20 | Ch. 32.4, 32.5 | Energy in EM Waves and Standing Waves Movie | Standing waves on strigs | |
5/13 | Fri. 09/22 | Ch. 33.1, 33.2 | Ch 32 HW |
Rays, Reflection and Refraction Movie | Wave tables, Water tank, and White board optics |
6/14 | Mon. 09/25 | Ch. 33.3, 33.4 | Total Internal Reflection and Dispersion - Rainbows Movie | Water tank and prism | |
6/15 | Wed. 09/27 | Ch. 33.5, 33.6 | Polarization and Scattering Movie | Dipole antenae, polarization disks, and Brewster's angle | |
6/16 | Fri. 09/29 | Ch. 33.7 | Huygen's Principle and Wave Fronts Movie | ||
7/17 | Mon. 10/02 | Ch. 34.1, 34.2, 34.3 | Ch 33 HW |
Geometric Optics 1 Movie | Spherical Mirrors and White board optics |
7/18 | Wed. 10/04 | Ch. 34.4 | Geometric Optics 2 Movie | White board optics | |
7/19 | Fri. 10/06 | Ch. 35.1, 35.2 | Ch 34 HW |
Interference 1 Movie | Laser with double slits, ripple tank |
8/20 | Mon. 10/09 | Ch. 35.3 | Interference 2 Movie | Laser with double slits | |
8/21 | Wed. 10/11 | Ch. 35.4, 35.5 | Interference 3 Movie | Laser with double slits, Newtons rings, and Michelson interferometer | |
Fri. 10/13 | No Class, Fall Break | ||||
9/22 | Mon. 10/16 | Ch. 36.1, 36.2, 36.3 | Ch 35 HW |
Diffraction 1 Movie | Laser with single slits |
9/23 | Wed. 10/18 | Ch. 36.4, 36.5 | Diffraction 2 Movie | Laser with multiple slits | |
9/24 | Fri. 10/20 | Ch. 36.6, 36.7 | Diffraction 3 Movie | Laser with holes | |
Mon. 10/23 | Ch. 32 - 36 | Ch 36 HW |
Exam 2 Electromagnetic Waves | ||
10/25 | Wed. 10/25 | Ch. 37.1, 37.2 | Gallilean Relativity and Special Relativity Movie | ||
10/26 | Fri. 10/27 | Ch. 37.3 | Space-time Diagrams Movie | ||
11/27 | Mon. 10/30 | Ch. 37.4 | SR Metric and Time Dilation Movie | ||
11/28 | Wed. 11/01 | Ch. 37.5 | Lorentz Transformations Movie | ||
11/29 | Fri. 11/03 | Ch. 37.6 | Lorentz Contractions Movie | ||
12/30 | Mon. 11/06 | Ch. 37.7 | Velocity Transformations and Relativistic Dynamics Movie | ||
12/31 | Wed. 11/08 | Ch. 37.8 | Conservation of Four Momentum Movie | ||
Fri. 11/10 | Ch. 37 | Ch 37 HW | Exam 3 Special Relativity | ||
13/32 | Mon. 11/13 | Ch. 38.1, 39.5 | Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and the Photoelectric Effect Movie | ||
13/33 | Wed. 11/15 | Ch. 38.2, 38.3 | Compton Scattering and Pair Production Movie | ||
13/34 | Fri. 11/17 | Ch. 38.4 | Uncertainty Movie | ||
14/35 | Mon. 11/20 | Ch. 39.1, 39.6 | Ch 38 HW |
Matter Waves Movie | |
14/36 | Wed. 11/22 | Ch. 39.2, 39.3 | Atomic Spectra Movie | Line spectra and student gratings | |
Fri. 11/24 | No Class, Thanksgiving Break | ||||
15/37 | Mon. 11/27 | Ch. 40.1 | Ch 39 HW |
Schrödinger's Equation Movie | |
15/38 | Wed. 11/29 | Ch. 40.2, 40.3 | Trapped Particles Movie | ||
15/39 | Fri. 12/01 | Ch. 40.4 | Ch 40 HW |
Barrier Tunneling Movie | Microwave tunneling |
16/40 | Mon. 12/04 | Ch. 41.1, 41.2, 41.3 | 2D and 3D Potentials and Hydrogen Atoms Movie | ||
16/41 | Wed. 12/06 | Ch. 41.4, 41.5, 41.6 | Spatial Quantization and Electron Spin Movie | ||
Fri. 12/08 | Ch 41 HW |
Exam 4 | |||
Fri. 12/16, 10am - noon | Final Exam |