PHYSICS 244 COURSE OUTLINE, SPRING 08
Wai-Yee KEUNG email: keung AT uic.edu
SES 2252 http://www.uic.edu/~keung/me/class/mp
Phone (312) 413-2778 Office Hrs: Wed.and Fri. 10:00-11:00am
TEXTBOOK: "Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers"
by J. R. Taylor and C. D. Zafiratos
LABORATORY: All laboratory experiments are required.
Any missed lab must be made up.
LAB TEXT: "Physics 244 Laboratory Instruction Booklet".
HOMEWORK: Homework assigned each week will be collected
in the last class meeting of the following week.
(Note we can MAP between assigned problems between the
first and the second editions of the textbook)
GRADES: Midterm Exam 30%; Final Exam 35%;
Lab work 10%; Homework 5%; Quizzes 20%
Week 1 (1/14/08)
Introduction
1.1 Relativity
1.2 The Relativity of Orientation and Origin
1.3 Moving Reference Frames
1.4 Classical Relativity and the Speed of Light
1.5 The Michelson - Morley Experiment
1.6 The Postulates of Relativity
1.7 Measurement of Time
1.8 The Relativity of Time; Time Dilation
1.9 Evidence for Time Dilation
Homework: 1.17,1.18,1.21,1.22,S1,S2 S3,S4,S5,S6,
(S1-6 from Supplementary Homework)
Due 1/25/08
Week 2 (1/21/08)
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (1/21/2008), HOLIDAY
1.10 Length Contraction
1.11 The Lorentz Transformation
1.12 Applications of the Lorentz Transformation
1.13 The Velocity - Addition Formula
1.14 The Doppler Effect
Homework: 1.26,1.33,1.34,1.41,1.46, S7, S8, S9, S10
Due 02/01/08
Experiment 1: Photo-electric Effects (setup)
Week 3 (1/28/08)
2.1 Introduction: "Relativistic Mechanics"
2.2 Mass in Relativity
2.3 Relativistic Momentum
2.4 Relativistic Energy
2.5 Two Useful Relations
2.6 Conversion of Mass to Energy
2.7 Force in Relativity
2.8 Massless Particles
2.9 When is Nonrelativistic Mechanics Good Enough?
Homework: 2.7,2.8,2.18,2.21,2.24,2.26,2.29,2.38, S11, S12
Due 2/08/08
Experiment 1: Photo-electric Effects
Week 4 (2/04/08)
4.1 Quantization
4.2 Plank and Blackbody Radiation
4.3 The Photoelectric Effect
4.4 X Rays and Bragg Diffraction
4.6 The Compton Effect
4.7 Particle - Wave Duality
Homework: Read Ch. 3.1 - 3.6
4.7,4.8,4.12,4.18,4.20,4.24,4.27,4.28,4.31
Due 2/15/08
Experiment 2: Braggs Scattering (microwave version)
Week 5 (2/11/08)
BRIEF DISCUSSION OF 3.1-3.11
3.12 Rutherford and the Nuclear Atom
5.1 Introduction: "Quantization of Atomic Energy levels"
5.2 Atomic Spectra
5.3 The Balmer - Rydberg Formula
5.5 Bohr's Explanation of Atomic Spectra
5.6 The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
Homework: 3.3,3.8,3.12,3.24,5.11,5.13
Due 2/22/08
Experiment 3: Spectral Lines
week 6 (2/18/08)
MIDTERM EXAM ON Feb 20, 2008 (WED evening) 6 pm - 8 pm
5.7 Properties of the Bohr Atom
5.8 Hydrogen - Like Ions
5.9 X-Ray Spectra
6.1 Introduction
6.2 DeBroglie's Hypothesis
6.3 Experimental Verification
6.4 The Quantum Wave Function
6.5 Which Slit Does the Electron Go Through?
6.6 Sinusoidal Waves
Homework: 5.16,5.25,6.10,6.15,6.19
Due 2/29/08
Week 7 (2/25/08)
6.7 Wave Packets
6.8 The Uncertainty Relation for
Position and Momentum
6.9 The Uncertainty Relation
for Time and Energy
6.10 Velocity of a Wave Packett
7.1 Introduction: "Schrodeinger Eq. in 1-dim"
7.2 Classical Standing Waves
7.3 Standing Waves in Quantum Mechanics;
Stationary States
7.4 The Particle in a Rigid Box
Homework: 6.28,6.31,6.38,6.45,6.47/
7.9,7.17,7.20,7.21
Due 3/07/08
Radiation and Safety Lectures in the lab periods.
(attendance COMPULSORY)
Week 8 (3/03/08)
7.5 The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
7.6 The Rigid Box Again
7.7 The Free Particle
7.8 The Nonrigid Box
8.1 Introduction: "3 dim. Schroedinger Eq."
8.3 The Two-Dimensional Square Box(P224-225 only)
8.6 Quantization of Angular Momentum
8.7 The Energy Levels of the Hydrogen Atom
8.9 Shells
Homework: 7.30,7.32,7.35,8.8,8.23,8.24,8.27,8.38
Due 3/14/08
Experiment 4 Geiger-Muller Counter Setup (Part 1)
Week 9 (3/10/08)
9.1 Introduction: "Electron Spin"
9.2 Spin Angular Momentum
9.3 Magnetic Moments
9.4 The Zeeman Effect
9.5 Spin Magnetic Moments
10.1 Introduction: "Multielectron Atoms"
10.4 The Pauli Exclusion Principle
10.5 Ground States of the First Few Elements
10.7 The Periodic Table
homework: 9.2,9.5,9.11,9.12,9.15,9.16/
10.7,10.8,10.14
Due 3/21/08
Experiment 4: Geiger-Muller Counter Statistics (Part 2)
Week 10 (3/17/08)
16.1 Introduction: "Subatomic Physics"
16.2 Nuclear Properties
16.3 The Nuclear Force
16.4 Electrons versus Neutron as Nuclear Constituents
16.5 The IPA Potential Energy for Nucleons
16.6 The Pauli Principle and the Symmetry Effect
Homework: 10.15,10.20,10.18
16.2,16.13,16.23,16.25
Due 4/04/08
Make-up Labs
Week of Spring break 3/24/2008 (Monday) to 3/28/2008 (Friday)
Week 11 (3/31/08)
16.7 Binding Energy per Nucleon
16.8 Shell Model
17.1 Introduction: "Radioactivity and Nuclear Reaction"
17.2 Radioactivity
17.3 The Exponential Decay Law
17.4 Beta Decay and the Neutrino
17.5 The Natural Radioactive Series
17.6 Nuclear Reaction
homework: 16.47,16.50,17.2,17.8,17.21,17.29,17.42
Due 4/11/08
Experiment 5: Nuclear Lifetime
Week 12 (4/07/08)
17.7 Nuclear Fission
17.8 Nuclear Fusion
18.1 Elementary Particles: The Story So Far
18.2 Antiparticles
18.3 Pions and Muons
18.4 The Four Fundamental Forces
18.5 Leptons
18.6 Hadrons
18.7 The Quark Model of Hadrons
Homework: 17.50,17.52,17.53,17.55,17.57/
18.4,18.6,
Due 4/18/08 (i.e. next Wednesday after Thanksgiving weekend)
Experiment 6: Beta Decay
Week 13 (4/14/08)
11.1 Introduction: "Atomic Transitions and Radiation"
11.2 Electromagnetic Radiation
11.3 Stationary States
11.4 Absorption and Stimulated Emission
11.7 Spontaneous Emission
11.8 Lifetimes and Selection Rules
11.9 Laser
Homework: 18.9,18.21,18.22,18.36
11.18,11.19,11.24,11.25,
and an additional problem
Due 5/25/08
Experiment 7: Interaction of Gamma Radiation with Matter
Week 14 (4/21/08)
13.1 Solid State Physics
13.2 Bonding of Solids
13.3 Crystals & Noncrystals
13.4 Energy Levels of Electron
13.5 Conductors and insulators
14.2 Semiconductors
Homework: 13.6,13.7,13.8,13.25,13.29,13.30,13.32,13.34
Due 5/2/08
Experiment 8: Interactions of Electrons with Matter
Week 15 (4/28/08)
REVIEW for FINAL EXAM
Makeup Labs (Please arrange your makeup labs with your TA)
Final Exam is from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at SEL2284/2294.