Physics 11
Foundations of
Physics II
Winter Term, 2000
Lecture: 11:10 - 12:20 MWF, Youngchild 161
Instructor: Matthew R. Stoneking
Office: Youngchild 87
Phone: X6724
email: stonekim
Office Hours: Tuesday 2 – 3 PM, Thursday 10 – 11 AM, or by appointment
Laboratory: 1:10 - 4:00 W or Th, Youngchild 91
Instructor: Paul Fontana
Office: Youngchild 78
Phone: X7020
email: fontanap
Office Hours:Tues/Thurs 9:00–10:30 AM, Fri 1:00–2:30 PM, or by appointment
Catalog course description:
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.
Course Themes and Emphases:
• the microscopic structure of matter
• fundamental forces and new forms of energy
• extension of human "experience" to small spatial scales (quantum physics) and high velocities (relativity)
Text:
Physics, Principles with Applications, 5th Edition, by Douglas C. Giancoli, Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1998).
Grades:
Final grades will be based on the following weighted components:
1) Final Exam 25 %
2) Hour Exams (2 X 12.5%) = 25 %
3) Laboratory 25 %
4) Homework 10 %
5)
Quizzes 15 %
Exams:
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
Laboratory:
A list of laboratory topics for each week is given below. Mr. Fontana will provide details on the operation of the laboratory portion of the course, including grading policies for labs.
Week 1: Electric Field Mapping
Week 2: Electric Circuits I (DC Circuits)
Week 3: Charged Particle Motion in a Magnetic Field (e/m)
Week 4: Electric Circuits II (AC Circuits)
Week 5: Measurement of the Speed of Light (c)
Week 6: Special Relativity Simulation
Week 7: The Photoelectric Effect (h/e)
Week 8: The Bohr Model and the Hydrogen Spectrum
Week 9: Nuclear Physics I
Week 10: Nuclear
Physics II
Homework:
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.
Quizzes:
Every
Friday (except 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:
Help sessions will be every Tues. and Thurs. evening (beginning on Thursday, January 6) 8-10pm in Youngchild 90. A student assistant will run most of these sessions.
Some of the information contained
in this syllabus can also be found at http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/stonekim/courses.htm
Outline of the Course:
I: Electricity and Magnetism
A: Electrostatics (Chapters 16 and 17)
B: DC Circuits (Chapters 18 and 19)
C: Magnetism (Chapter 20)
D: Electromagnetism and AC Circuits (Chapters 21 and 22)
II: Modern Physics
A: The Special Theory of Relativity (Chapter 26)
B: Quantum Theory (Chapters 27 and 28)
C: Nuclear Physics (Chapters 30 and 31)
D: Particle Physics (Chapter 32)
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.
Course
Schedule
Unit I:
Electricity and Magnetism
Week 1
M 1/3: Giancoli Chapter 16 The Laws of Electrostatics
Overview of the course, electric charge, Coulomb’s Law, electric properties of materials, conservation of charge, the principle of superposition.
W 1/5: Giancoli Chapter 16 The
Electric Field
Definition of the electric field, rules for drawing electric field lines, examples of electric field line maps.
F 1/7: Giancoli Chapter 17 Electric
Potential QUIZ #1
Electric potential energy versus electric potential, the parallel plate capacitor, capacitance, dielectric materials.
Week 2
M 1/10: Giancoli Chapter 17-18 Ohm’s Law
Equipotential contours, the ECG, electric current, Ohm’s Law, resistance and resistivity.
W 1/12: Giancoli Chapter 18-19 D.C. Electric Circuits
Electric power, DC circuits, combining resistors and capacitors in parallel and series, exponential decay in a RC circuit.
F 1/14: Giancoli Chapter 20 The
Laws of Magnetism QUIZ
#2
Permanent magnets, magnetic poles, compass needles, the
geomagnet, Oersted’s observation and the magnetic force on a current carrying wire.
Week 3
M 1/17: Giancoli Chapter 20 The
Magnetic Force
Magnetic forces on straight, parallel, current-carrying
wires, definition of the magnetic field and the unit of the Ampere, the Lorentz
force law.
W 1/19: Giancoli Chapter 20 The Magnetic
Field
Rules for drawing magnetic field lines, examples of magnetic
field line maps, solenoids, electromagnets, torque on a magnetic dipole in a magnetic
field.
F 1/21: Giancoli
Chapter 20 Electromagnetic Induction QUIZ #3
Electromagnetic induction, Lenz’s Law, Faraday’s Law,
generators, transformers.
Week 4
M 1/24: Giancoli Chapter 21 A.C.
Electric Circuits
Inductance, inductors, AC circuits, phasors, impedance,
resonant circuits.
W 1/26: Giancoli Chapter 22 Electromagnetic
Waves
Changing electric fields produce magnetic fields, Maxwell’s
Equations, electromagnetic waves, radiating antennae.
F 1/28: HOUR EXAM #1 (covers chapters 16-22)
Unit II:
Modern Physics
Week 5
M 1/31: Giancoli Chapter 26 The
Principle of Relativity
Galilean relativity, Einstein’s postulates for special
relativity, synchronization of clocks, simultaneity.
W 2/2: Giancoli Chapter 26 The
Twin Paradox
Time dilation, the twin paradox, length contraction and four
dimensional spacetime.
F 2/4: Giancoli Chapter 26 E=mc2
QUIZ #4
Velocity addition, relativistic momentum and energy, rest
mass energy.
Week 6
M 2/7: Giancoli Chapter 27 The
Electron
A brief history of atomic theory, the cathode ray tube, the
electron, Millikan’s oil drop experiment.
W 2/9: Giancoli Chapter 27 The
Photon
The photoelectric effect,
Friday 11 February: Midterm Reading Period, no class.
Week 7
Monday 14 February: Midterm Reading Period, no class.
W 2/16: Giancoli Chapter 27 The
Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
Spectroscopy, atomic spectra, the Bohr model of the Hydrogen
atom.
F 2/18: Giancoli Chapter 27 Matter
Waves QUIZ
#5
The wave nature of matter, de Broglie wavelength, X-ray and
electron diffraction compared.
Week 8
M 2/21: Giancoli Chapter 28 Quantum
Mechanics
Quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle,
philosophical interpretations, Schrodinger’s cat.
W 2/23: Giancoli Chapter 28 Hydrogen Atom and the Periodic
Table
Wave functions, quantum numbers, the hydrogen atom, the
Pauli exclusion principle and the periodic table of elements.
F 2/25: HOUR EXAM #2 (covers chapters 26-28)
Week 9
M 2/28: Giancoli Chapter 30 The
Neutron
Moseley’s determination of atomic numbers, the neutron,
isotopes, the chart of the nuclides.
W 3/1: Giancoli Chapter 31 Radioactivity
Radioactivity, radioactive decay
F 3/3: Giancoli Chapter 31 Nuclear
Medicine QUIZ
#6
Radiation dosimetry, radiology
Week 10
M 3/6: Giancoli Chapter 32 Nuclear
Energy
Nuclear binding energy, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion
W 3/8: Giancoli Chapter 32 The
Neutrino and the Positron
Fundamental forces, mediating (or messenger) particles,
Yukawa’s hypothesis, the neutrino, the positron.
F 3/10: Giancoli Chapter 32 Quarks
Two body versus three body decay, muons, mesons,
conservation of lepton numbers, strange particles. Gell-Mann’s periodic table
for elementary particles and the quark model.
Final Exam: Tuesday
14 March 8:30 am