Fundamentals of Physics III ("Modern Physics")

PHY 2030 - An introduction to space-time physics and quantum physics with applications in astronomy, cosmology, solid-state physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. Four credits. Prerequisite: PHY 2020. Offered Fall Semester.

Office Hours - Mondays: 3-4:30pm; Wednesdays: 10:30-11:30am; Fridays: 2-3:30pm

Useful Numbers to Memorize

• Speed of light
• Size of atom (order of magnitude)
• Size of atomic nucleus (order of magnitude)
• Diameter of Earth (order of magnitude)
• Masses of protons, electrons, etc. (order of magnitude)
• Metric prefixes
• Various unit conversions (both directions): km to miles, cm to inches, lbs in kg, etc.
• Number of seconds in a year (~pi x 10^7)

SBG Assignment Rules

• LReport - if you decide to write a full-blown report for a lab (to assess LReport), your lab report will be due TWO WEEKS after you conducted the experiment. I will take your highest assessment score into account at the end of the semester.
• LApparatus - if you decide NOT to write a full-blown report for a lab (to assess LReport), you still must submit the results from your experiment; your results will be due ONE WEEK after the experiment. I will take the average assessment score into account at the end of the semester.
• LJournal - you must submit your materials 1 WEEK after the LJournal assignment was given out. I will take only the highest individual assessment score into account at the end of the semester.
• LMath - I will assess you at random throughout the semester (in class). I will use the average assessment score for your course grade.
• Other Standards - I will assess you approximately every 2-3 weeks (the 3 "exams" will be the major assessments). For each standard, I will take your most recent assessment score. (Note this means your assessment scores can go down even after you mastered them).

Course Schedule & Assignments

Day	Date	Chapter / Assignments / Assessments / Labs
1	26 Aug	R1 Questions: B1, B3, B4, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S11
2	28 Aug	R2 Questions: B1, B3, B4, B5, B7, S1, S3, S4, S6, S11 Lab: elevator-toss.mov | two-carts.mov | ballistic-cart.mp4 | corioliskraft.mov | merry-go-round.mov Assessments: Rel, LApparatus, and LReport
3	2 Sep	R3 Questions: B1 (work using a spacetime diagram), B2, B3, B4, B5, S1, S3, S4, S6
4	4 Sep	R4 Questions: B1, B2, B3, B4, S1, S4, S6 Assessments: LJournal
5	9 Sep	R5 Questions: B1, B3, B4, B5, B7, S1, S3, S4, S6, S7 S9 Assessments: LJournal 2
6	11 Sep	Review of R1-R5
7	16 Sep	R6 Questions: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, S2, S3,S5, S7
8	18 Sep	R7 Questions: B1, B4, B5, B6, B7, S1, S2, S4, S5, S6
9	23 Sep	R8 Standard: V B4, B5, S12 Standard: Causality B1, B2, S1, S3, S4, S6
10	25 Sep	Exam 1 (big assessment)
11	30 Sep	Q1 LAB: fourier analysis of time-series data single1_noiseless.txt | single1_noise.txt | single2_noiseless.txt | single2_noise.txt | double.txt | High_Point_Temp_4year.txt | Charlotte_Temp_7days.txt | aapl.txt | irs_google_trend.txt | OR download all together as TAR file: all_files.tar Standard WS: B1, B3, B4, B5, B7, B8, S2, S7
12	2 Oct	Q2 Standard WI: B1, S1, S2, S3, B4, B5, B12, B13, S8, S9 Ripple Tank Simuation
13	7 Oct	Q2 LAB - Double slit interference
14	9 Oct	Q3 Phet Simulation - Photelectric Effect Standard WP: B4, S1, S2, S4, S7, B1, B2, B6, S8
15	14 Oct	Q4 Standard WP: B5, B4, S4, S1
16	16 Oct	Assessment/Reassessment Quiz covering all relativity standards and Q1-Q3.
17	28 Oct	Q5 Download Interference Simulation (Mac) Download Spin Simulation (Mac) Standard MQ: T3, T4, T5, T8, B1, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9, B10
18	30 Oct	Q6 T1,T2,T3,T4,B1,B2,S2
19	2 Nov	PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT LAB
20	6 Nov	Q6 Standard Qrules: T5, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, B4, B5, S3, S8, S9
21	11 Nov	Q6
22	13 Nov	Q7 and Q8 Standard Qenergy: B1, B6, S4, S6 (Q7) Standard Qenergy: B1, S2, B3, S7 (Q8)
23	18 Nov	Q10 Problems: B1,B3,B5,B6,B7,S1,S3,S5 Download SchroSolver Download VSchroSolver-template.py (for a finite well) Download VSchroSolver-hydrogen-template.py (for hydrogen atom)
24	20 Nov	Read Chapters 7 & 8 in this PDF Discussed General Relativity (GR), time dilation, principle of equivalence, ...
25	25 Nov	(GR,DM) - problems
26	2 Dec	(DM) - problems
27	4 Dec	(DM,COS) - problems

Course Documents

• Syllabus - information about the course
• Standards - standards by which you will be assessed in the course.
• Evidences - ways in which students show they have mastered the course standards.

Resources

• Graphing paper - hyperbolic graphing paper.
• Lab-report-template - lab report template (zip file contaning .tex template + other files)
• Maclaurin/Taylor Series - a short PDF to remind you about the Maclaurin and Taylor Series (binomial approximation)
• Solution Bundles: "hpu-phy2030-" + one of the following:
  "r1r2r3"
  "r4r5r6r7r8"
  "q1q2q3q4"
  "quantum"
• A short intro to general relativity

Useful Software

• Tracker Software - tracker software for video analysis; free download.
• PHET - online, interactive physics simulations
• ProbViewer (Mac) - software package that allows you to view solutions to the Six Ideas problems
• ProbViewer (Windows) - software package that allows you to view solutions to the Six Ideas problems
• Period04 - software for analyzing time-series data using Fourier transforms