Some comments about the Final Exam:
The best way to study would be to review your book or lecture notes to make sure you understand and remember the concepts you have learned in this course. Some of the problems may be simply to test your understanding rather than your ability to crunch numbers in a formula. Make sure you know how to do the homework and quiz problems you were given in this course and if necessary check the posted solutions.
I am posting all the 8 quizzes so you can remind yourselves of the problems. (Go to Exam Solutions page and look for links).
The formulae and constants to be provided will be posted shortly, so you will know what you have to remember and what you will be provided with.
The Final will consist of 10 problems and will count for 40% of the overall grade percentage. Same rules apply as for quizzes—no textbook, crib sheets, cell phones, laptops. Please remember to bring your calculators and blue books and make sure you know your correct 3 digit code.
You MUST show clearly your reasoning and derivations leading to your solutions to get full credit.
The tutorial center is open this week. The TA Chris Murphy will be there on Thursday from 5-7 pm and will also pm be holding a problem session in Center 105 from 8-10 on Thursday. I will be available on Wednesday from 2-5 pm in my office for help.
Week 1 (starts March 30, 2009)
Reading; Chapter 1 Topic: Relativity
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 1: 3,4, 5,7,8, 10, 12, 14,16,18,19
Lectures will be in WLH 2005 MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
and in Pepper Canyon Hall 106 Tue. 5:00-5:50 PM
Discussion Session TBA
Problem session TBA
Quiz: None this week
Week 2 (starts April 6, 2009)
Reading; Chapter 1 and 2 Topic: Relativity
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 1: 21, 22,26, 24, 31; Ch. 2: 2,3, 5,7,13,21,23
Quiz 1: will be in WLH 2005 Fri., April 10 11:00 am - 11:50 am
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 1 (DOC) posted 4/09/09
Week 3 (starts April 13, 2009)
Reading; Chapter 2 Topic: Relativity; Ch. 3 Quantum Theory of light
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 2: 26,27, 29; Ch. 3: 2,3, 8, 10,14,15
Quiz 2: will be in WLH 2005 Fri. April 17 11:00 am - 11:50 am
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 2 (DOC) posted 4/15/09
Additional Problems you should try from Ch. 2 : 14,16 Quiz 2 will be only on Chapter 2.
I am henceforth canceling my Tuesday afternoon office hours and changing them to Thursdays 1:30 -2:30 PM instead.
Week 4(starts April 20, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 3: Quantum Theory of Light
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 3: Problems assigned last week (if you haven.t done them) plus 20, 23, 25, 27,29,33, 37, 39
Lectures will be in WLH 2005 MW 9:00-9:50 AM Quiz 3 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will cover Chapter 3.
Next week, I shall be away and lectures will be given by our Guest Lecturer, Professor Werner Press of U.Kiel, Germany. I will be back on Monday April 27.
Week 5 (starts April 27, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 3 (Secn. 3.5 only) and Chapter 4: Particle Nature of Matter.
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 4: 3,6,7,8,9,11,14,18,21,22,25,29,32,33,35,37
Quiz 4 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will cover Chapter 4 and possibly Ch 3 (Secn. 3.5 –X-rays, Compton Scattering, etc.)
Formulas to be given for this Quiz will be posted shortly.
A new set of notes to replace last week’s lecture notes (correcting a few errors in those notes) may be found on the “Lecture notes” page. Please replace your old lecture notes with the current ones.
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 4 (PDF) posted 4/30/09
For Quiz 4, the status of the grades is being reviewed. For Problem 1, 3/5 is a perfectly correct answer. If you took the ratios of the velocities in the opposite sense and showed this consistently in your work, the inverse would also be acceptable as correct.
For Problem 2, the correct solution is now posted. Those who used the correct formulae with Z=2 will receive full marks. If you have picked up your blue book and feel that you were misgraded on either of the above points, please take your blue book to the TA.
Week 6 (starts May 4, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 5: Matter Waves
Homework Problems for Week: Ch.5: 1,2,3,5,11,12,14,15,17,18,19,20,22,25,26,28,29,33,34
Quiz 5 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will cover Chapter 5.
Formulae to be provided for Quiz 5 will be posted by Thursday of this week.
I shall be away for this week, and lectures will be given by Professor Shpyrko.
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 5 (PDF) posted 5/07/09
Week 7 (starts May 11, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 5: Matter Waves and Chapter 6: Quantum Mechanics in One Dimension
Homework Problems for Week: Ch.5: 1,2,3,5,11,12,14,15,17,18,19,20,22,25,26,28,29,33,34
Quiz 6 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will still only cover Chapter 5.
Formulae for QUIZ 6 and a practice Midterm Exam (not graded) will be posted on the Web Site by Thursday.
It appears that the communication between the grader, the TA, and the people who post the notices on the PHY 2D Web Site broke down last week, so we apologize for the fact that the QUIZ 4 and QUIZ 5 grades and solutions were not posted. This is being rectified as quickly as possible.
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 6 (PDF) posted 5/14/09
Weeks 7 and 8 (May 13 and week of May 18, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 6: Quantum mechanics in one dimension and Chapter 7: Tunneling Phenomena
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 6: 1,2,4,5,9,10,11,16,19,20,23,24,29,31,32,37; Ch. 7: 2,3,4,5,7,11
Quiz 7 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will cover Chapter 6 and those parts of Ch. 7 which will be covered in lectures week of May 18.
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 7 (PDF) posted 5/21/09
Quiz 7 this Friday will consist of problems from the material covered in
Chapter 6 and my lectures this week only. Since I had very little time at
the end of my lecture today to discuss the material in Section 6.8 of
Chapter 6,
I suggest you read and understand that section before the Quiz.
Alternatively, you will see a link below to my own notes on this topic if
it helps in your understanding.
Notes_on_eigenvalues_etc (PDF) posted 5/21/09
If you wish to see me outside of office hours, please make an appointment with me by email. (I will be available Thursday (May 21) in the late morning or early afternoon, but only if you tell me you are coming and what time to expect you). Next week, I will only have office hours on Tuesday afternoon 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM since Monday is a holiday. (I will not be here on Thursday of next week). Email me if you want alternative times next week.
Week 9 (Week of May 25, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 7: Tunneling Phenomena and Chapter 8: Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 7: 2,3,4,5,7,11; Ch. 8: 1,3,4,5,7,10,12,15,16,17
Quiz 8 will be in WLH 2005 F 11:00-11:50 AM and will be only on Chapter 7 , Secn. 7.1.
Formulas to be provided with Quiz 8 (PDF) posted 5/28/09
Week 10 (Week of June 1, 2009)
Reading: Chapter 8: Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
Homework Problems for Week: Ch. 8: 1,3,4,5,7,10, 12,15,16,17 (no new problems)
No Quiz this week.
In Week 10 we will be covering those parts of Ch. 8 not yet covered and if there is time, I will talk about some general topics in Modern Physics not covered in this course, but not directly related to your Exam for this course. Friday June 5 will be devoted to a review of all the material for your Final (which will be on Friday June 12 in WLH 2005 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM)
To help you prepare for the Final, here is a “practice” Midterm Exam on Chapters 1 to 5. It will NOT be graded. Try to do these 5 problems in 90 minutes, without using anything but your calculator. Solutions will be posted next week.
Practice Midterm (PDF) posted 5/14/09
Brief Review of Previous Physics Courses needed for PHYS 2D (PDF) posted 1/07/08
For a streaming video of excellent lectures on Waves, etc. by the TA of a previous course, go to:
http://hepweb.ucsd.edu/%7Emodphys/2dw03/video/refresher.html
For a video illustrating Special Relativity go to:
http://www.onestick.com/relativity
For a video on General Relativity, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbGuuGosAY