Notes Posted by Professors
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List of notes posted by professors for classes
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Electromagnetism
Dr. Frank Kowalski - Intermediate Electromagnetism 2007
- Coulumb's Law and r vs. r'
- Pretest, Charged Sphere, "physlets", and Gauss's Law
- Flux, Areas, and Infinite Plane
- Gauss's Law, Divergence of E, More Sphere, and the Dirac Delta
- More Dirac Delta, Conservation Laws, Work
- Work from V, Relationships between V, E, and ρ
- Work and Infinite Cylinder
- Charge in Cavities, Capacitance, Laplace
- Poisson's/Laplace's Equations, Sheet of Charge & Stokes Theorem, Line Integrals
Quantum
Dr. John Scales - Modern Physics II 2006
Note: On the Modern II 2006 Wiki page Dr. Scales has posted many links to outside resources.
- Time Evolution of a Wavefunction
- Measurements and the Momentum Operator
- Operators, Observables, and Measurement
- Observables, Energy, and Eigenstate Theorems
- Energy/Time and Schrodinger's equation
- Square Well Resources
- Infinite Square Well Worked
- Harmonic Oscillator: Classical & Quantum
- Raising/Lowering Operators, Hamiltonian Eigenvalues, Harmonic Oscillator
- State Vector, Fourier Representation, Number Operator
- Number, Destruction, and Creation Operators, Casimir Force
- Power Series solutions to ODEs
- Coherent states versus number (harmonic oscillator) states
Statistical
Dr. Jim McNeil - Thermal Physics 2007
- Course Introduction
- Temperature
- Degrees of Freedom, Equipartition Theorem and Energy
- Work Processes
- Heat Capacities
- Heat Capacities and Enthalpy
- Energy and Introduction to Entropy
- 2-state Systems, Sterling's Approximation and Multiplicity Functions
- Einstein Solids and Numbers
- Einstein Solids Continued
- Ideal Gas
- Entropy
- Entropy Continued
- Blackholes and Information
- Another Look at Entropy, Heat Capacity, and Heat
- Temperature, Entropy and The 2-state Paramagnet
- 2-state Paramagnets, Thermal and Mechnical Equilibrium, and Thermodynamic Identities
- Diffusive Equilibrium, Thermodynamic Identities, and Chemical Potential
- Classical Thermodynamics and the Carnot Cycle
- Heat Engines: Carnot and Otto Cycle
- Steam Engines
- Refrigerators and Magnetic Cooling
- Thermodynamic Potentials and Gibbs Free Energy
- Gibbs Free Energy Continued
- Maxwell's Relations and the Claussius Clapeyron Relation
- Claussius-Clapeyron Continued and The Van der Walls Model
- Boltzmann Factor
- Physics 100 Review: Waves on a String
- The Partition Function
- Equipartition Theorem and Maxwell's Velocity Distribution
- Helmholtz Free Energy, The Partition Function and The Boltzmann H-Theorem
- Partition Function for an Ideal Gas and Average Energy
- Partition Function and Chemical Potential
- Catch-up/Review
- Thermal Equilibrium, Diffusive Equilibrium, and the Grand Partition Function
- Fermi-Dirac Distribution, Degenerate Fermi Gas, and Density of States
- Bose-Einstein Statistics and Blackbody Radiation
- Bose-Einstein Statistics, Stefan-Boltzmann Law, Wein Displacement Law
- Photons
- Relativistic Electron/Positron Gas
- Debye Theroy of Solids
- Fermion Statistics and The Sommerfield Expansion
Nuclear
Dr. Uwe Griefe - Advanced Lab II 2006=
Lab
Dr. Uwe Griefe - Advanced Lab II 2006
- Error Analysis
- NaI detector
- Gamma Ray Attenuation
- Mass Attenutation Coefficients
- Compton Effect
- Energy Loss of Alpha Particles
- Alpha-Gamma Coincidences
- Decay Scheme and Angular Correlation of 60Co
- Cosmic Ray Telescope
Dr. Matt Young/Dr. Frank Kowalski - Advanced Lab I 2006
- Microwave Doppler Shift
- Charge to Mass Ratio
- Spectroscopy
- Polarization and Detector Linearity
- Calculation of E/M
- Cavity Modes 1
- Cavity Modes 2
- Cavity Modes 3
- Diffraction Slit 1
- Diffraction Slit 2
- Diffraction Slit 3
Mathematics
Dr. John Scales - Math Physics
- Simple Harmonic Oscillator w/ ODE
- Simple Harmonic Oscillator, Cavity, Matrices, Complex Numbers
- Cavities, Norms, Linear Systems, Row Reduction
- Least Squares, Projection Operators, Normal Equations, and Eigensystems
- Eigensystems
- Exam Problems
- Fourier Analysis
- More Fourier Analysis
- Fourier Analysis, Sampling Theorem
- Separation of Variables, Harmonics, Laplacian
- Harmonics, Laplacian, Legendre Functions
- Legendre Polynomials
- Bessel Functions
- Laplacian
