Syllabus: Assessable
Learning
Outcomes : Schedule :Notes on Modern
Physics lab writeups
Full Syllabus
(All the items above combined)
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Event Information |
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Course Introduction |
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Week starting August 21 |
Partial Derivative Worksheet | |
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Time Dilation, Twin Paradox: | |
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Week starting August 27 |
Simulations: | |
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Time
dilation, Length Contraction, Relativistic Velocity addition |
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| Week starting September 03 | Acceleration
Transformations
[ O
: W
: P
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Space Time
diagrams |
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| Simultaneity:Space - time intervals |
Interactive Space-Time Spreadsheet
06 [O] |
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| Week starting September 10 |
external: Interactive Space-time Diagram |
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| Week starting September 24 |
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2-D Collision in two frames |
Mary and Frank Collision |
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Worksheet 02 (Not Linked) |
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Lab 01: Speed of Light Derivation
[ P
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| Week of September 24 |
Test 1 |
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| Week of October 08 |
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| JJ
Thompson Nobel Prize site From AIP |
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Images :Electron Beam : E over M Experiment |
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| Blackbody
radiation
Java Applets [1] [2] [3] |
BlackBody
Radiation
Notes [W:P] Image from RPI |
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| Week
of October 15 |
Electromagnetic
Spectrum Chart |
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| Photoelectric
Effect Spreadsheet |
Photoelectric
Effect Notes [W:O:P] lab [W:O:P] Java Simulation |
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) Robert Bunsen (1811-1899): JJ Balmer (1825-1898) JJ Thompson (1856-1940): Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) Niels Bohr (1885-1962): Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie (1892-1987) Albert Einstein (1879(Ulm)-1955) : Leucippus of Miletus (480BC-420BC) |
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Thompson model Java Applet (1) |
Rutherford Scattering : Java
applets (1)
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| Week beginning October 22 |
Nobel Prize Site |
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| Franck Hertz
Simulations a: requires shockwave b: under java (German) Experiment Notes [P] An example of the capture of the Franck hertz experiment |
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| 1924 |
De Broglie Waves [ P ] | |
| Davvison
&
Germer's experiment background info X-ray and Electron diffraction [W:O:P] |
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Week of October 29 |
Lab: Spectra
Spreadsheet |
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Solutions (not linked) |
Visible Discharge Spectra [ W : P ] | |
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test 2 |
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Week of November 05 |
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Animations |
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Slinky:
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Harmonic Traveling Wave on an Infinite String : 001 and Spooky |
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Java Applet (External) |
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| Week starting November 12 |
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Mixed State 1D Quantum Square Well Wave Functions:2,3 : 2,4 : 3,5 |
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The "Haloween" operator :) |
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| Week starting November 19 |
Quantum Wave Functions |
Quantum SHO [ W :O: P ]: sloped square well |
| They make really nice movies here | ||
| Week
Starting November 26 |
Useful Page [W:O:P] |
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How to use circles to show addition of angular momentum [ W : P ] |
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| Week starting December 03 |
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| IAEA | ||
| Periodic Chart | ||
| Week of December 03 |
test 3 |
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