PHYSICS 9HE UC Davis, Winter 2005

LECTURE: Dr. Randy Harris, 249 Phy/Geo. Tel: 752-8897. Email:

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-2 and Thursdays 1:30-2:30

DISCUSSION/LAB: Derrick Kiley, 508 Phy/Geo. Email:

Office Hours: Friday 10-11am

READER: Patrick Bocash


ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The final exam is Friday Mar 18 1:30-3:30 (the project is also due then); see the link below for review material.

Derrick will be in Roe 154 (the lab room) Thursday at 6pm.

I'll be in Roessler 154 (the lab room) Wednesday 4:30-6 for any questions you may have.


 Class Meeting

 Reading assignment

 Tue, Mar 15

SH9(forces&particles).pdf

 Thu, Mar 10

Moore Chapter Q14, Q15

 Tue, Mar 8

Moore Chapter Q13

 Thu, Mar 3

Feynman 21-5 & 6 (qualitatively), Moore Chapter Q12

 Thu, Feb 24

Supplementary text 9.8 - 9.10

 Tue, Feb 22

Supplementary text 9.5 - 9.7

 Thu, Feb 17

Supplementary text 8.9, 9.1, 9.4

 Tue, Feb 15

Supplementary text 8.1, 8.4, 8.6, 8.7

 Thu, Feb 10

SH7(dipoles).pdf, SH8(L,mu,S,ExchangeSymm).pdf, Feyman 19.6 plus review Moore Q8.5, 8.6, 9.2, 9.3 & Feynman Figure 5-3. Also, pick up supplementary text at Navin's copy shop.

 Tue, Feb 8

Feynman 19-3 (lightly) and 19-5, SH6(solvingHatom).pdf

 Thu, Feb 3

Feynman 19.1, 19.2 (just for the general idea), and 19.4

 Thu, Jan 27

Moore Q8.1, Q9.1 (and any old reading you may have overlooked)

 Tue, Jan 25

Feynman 16.5-16.6

 Thu, Jan 20

Moore Q10.3-Q10.5, Q11.1-Q11.3 (largely review, but study it well), and, if you're interested, the non-required reading SH5 below

 Tue, Jan 18

SH3(transform).pdf, SH4(transformGaussian).pdf, Feynman 20.4-20-5

 Thu, Jan 13

SH2(fourier2).pdf, Feynman sections 16.2-16.4

 Tue, Jan 11

 Moore Chapters Q7&Q11, fourier.pdf & lec6pix (from 9HC), SH1(fourier).pdf, italicized sentence in the last paragraph of Q1.6--and the rest of Q1.6 (most of the foregoing review), plus a very light reading of Feynman Chapter 16 (we'll get more detailed soon)

Homework Assignments, by due date: Jan 14, Jan 21, Jan 28, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 28, Mar 14

Solutions: solns1, solns2, solns3, solns4, MT1solns, solns5, solns6, solns7. MT2solns, solns8


Files, Etc:

  1. Syllabus
  2. Lab Handouts
  3. Complex Numbers
  4. exp(ikx), caught on film
  5. gaussian exp(ikx), caught on film
  6. SH5(p-operator)
  7. Feynman, caught on tape
  8. Midterm 1 review material
  9. Phase/group velocity
  10. Project Topics
  11. Separating Atoms
  12. Midterm 2 review material
  13. Final exam review material

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