Physics III: Optics, Waves, and Particles

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Announcements:

December 10, 2002:

The final exam will be held 3:00-5:30pm, December 16, in Kennedy Hall auditorium.

The formula sheet for the final exam is now available.

The Physics 214 staff will hold regular office hours this week except for the following changes:

Jacob Alldredge--no office hours, but review sessions at 1:30pm on Weds.the 11th and another at 1:30 on Sat. the 14th. Both in room RF115.

Henry Tye--review session Wednesday 12/11at 3pm at RF103 or a nearby available room.

Alan Giambattista--office hours changed to Friday 12/13 10am-11am and 1pm-2pm in CL130.

November 8, 2002: 

Prelim 2 results:

Below is the plot of prelim 2 - prelim 1. The mean is -2 and the stdev = 13.8. In other words both prelims were roughly equal in difficulty level.

 

The sum of both prelims is plotted below. The mean is 67 and the stdev is 12.3.

 

Prelim 2 Solutions

 

November 6, 2002: 

Prelim 2 tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 pm)

If you have a conflict, send email to Prof. Tye.  No calculators permitted.

• Section 14 in RF 104

• Section 8 and 15 in RF 132

• All other sections in Schwarz auditorium.

• The formula sheet is now available.

 

October 9, 2002, 1:20am Prelim 1 is graded:

mean = 68, median = 69, mode = 76, and stdev = 15.5

Congratulations -- this is excellent!

 Solutions to the Prelim

October 7, 2002: 

Prelim 1 next week (Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 pm).  If you have a conflict, send email to Prof. Tye.  No calculators permitted.

• Section 14 in RF 104
• Section 8 and 15 in RF 132
• All other sections in Schwarz auditorium.
• The formula sheet is now available.
• Three prelims from previous semesters are available (Fall 2001, Fall 1998, and Spring 1997).  (Remember that different semesters cover different material in a different sequence, so not all problems are relevant.)  We only have solutions to the Fall 2001 prelim, not to the other two.

September 19, 2002: 

   No Lab Next week --> Lab 2 has been moved backward and Lab 4 has been cut!

  Office Hours for E.B. are now Monday 3:00 - 4:30pm and on special arrangement send email.

September 12, 2002: 

  Office hours are now posted on the syllabus page.

    Reading list:

o       See homework

o       E&H:  1

September 2, 2002: 

Lab starts today B26 Rockefeller

Reading list:

o       Y&F: 13ff: periodic motion especially 13.9

o       Y&F: 19: mechanical waves

o       E&H:  1

 

Book suggestions:

Mary L. Boas  Mathematical Methods in Physical Sciences, 2^nd edition (used $40.00)

George Arfken Mathematical Methods in Physics

Interesting Web-pages on Waves:

·       A great webpage on waves with lots of simulations. 

·       Another good page can be found at the American Physical Society. It has many links to different Java applets. Please click here. 

·       This  page has very nice Java applets (superposition, standing waves,  ...) and lessons on waves.

·         A good page showing a simulation of the superposition of waves on Windows can be downloaded from here (thanks to Leighton Arnold).

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