PHYS 2170

Fall 2021

General Physics 3 for Majors


Course Information:


Lectures:

  • Lecture 1 (August 23): Galilean relativity
  • Lecture 2 (August 25): Time dilation
  • Lecture 3 (August 27): Length contraction
  • Lecture 4 (August 30): Lorentz transformations
  • Lecture 5 (September 1): Pole-in-barn paradox
  • Lecture 6 (September 3): Relativistic velocity addition
  • Lecture 7 (September 8): Relativistic energy and momentum
  • Lecture 8 (September 10): Massless particles
  • Lecture 9 (September 13): Relativistic collisions
  • Lecture 10 (September 15): Nuclear fission and fusion
  • Lecture 11 (September 17): Relativistic forces
  • Lecture 12 (September 20): General relativity
  • Lecture 13 (September 22): Harmonic oscillator and complex numbers
  • Lecture 14 (September 24): Euler's formula
  • Lecture 15 (September 27): Waves on strings
  • Lecture 16 (October 1): The wave equation
  • Lecture 17 (October 4): Reflection of waves
  • Lecture 18 (October 6): Standing waves
  • Lecture 19 (October 8): Sound waves
  • Lecture 20 (October 11): Waves in solid rods
  • Lecture 21 (October 13): Phase and group velocity
  • Lecture 22 (October 15): Non-relativistic Doppler effect
  • Lecture 23 (October 18): Light and the relativistic Doppler effect
  • Lecture 24 (October 20): Interference of light in thin films and between two slits
  • Lecture 25 (October 22): Diffraction
  • Lecture 26 (October 25): Photons
  • Lecture 27 (October 27): Quantum wave functions
  • Lecture 28 (October 29): Measurement in quantum mechanics
  • Lecture 29 (November 1): Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
  • Lecture 30 (November 5): Uncertainty in position and momentum
  • Lecture 31 (November 8): The Schrodinger equation
  • Lecture 32 (November 10): Quantum tunneling
  • Lecture 33 (November 12): The Schrodinger equation in higher dimensions
  • Lecture 34 (November 15): Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom
  • Lecture 35 (November 17): Angular momentum in two dimensions
  • Lecture 36 (November 19): Angular momentum in three dimensions
  • Lecture 37 (November 29): Quantum solution of the hydrogen atom
  • Lecture 38 (December 1): Bosons and fermions
  • Lecture 39 (December 3): The independent particle approximation
  • Lecture 40 (December 6): The periodic table

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