PHYS 2170
Fall 2021
General Physics 3 for Majors
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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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