I# Lectures, readings, and homework
All of the Lessons are at: QS&BB Lessons
All lecture slides are at slides
All supplementary Hobson readings are also in Hobson_quantum_fields
Contents
- Week 1, Getting Started and Constantly Accelerated Motion
- Week 2, Force, Momentum, and Smashing Things Together
- Week 3, Energy and Early Cosmology
- Week 4, Newtonian Gravitation, Atoms, Charges, Magnetism, and Faraday
- Week 5, Faraday’s Fields and Maxwell’s Electrodynamics
- Week 6, Particle Accelerators and 1890’s Discoveries
- Week 7, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
- Week 8, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
- Week 9, Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
- Week 10, Cosmology Following Einstein
- Week 11, Different Universes, Quantum Theory
- Week 12, The beginnings of Nuclear Physics and Quantum Mechanics
- Week 13, Quantum measurement and what we can know & Quantum Field Theory
- Week 14, Feynman Diagrams, weak interactions, and exchange forces
- Week 15 last, Higgs Boson, the Big Bang is properly named, and the Flatness of the world
Key
PCC = Physics-Concepts-Connections, Hobson
GRL_QS&BB = beta test of Lessons 4 & 5 for Great Lakes Learning
QS&BB = on-line text, starting with Preface, Lesson 1, 2, 3, and then Lesson 6 onward
MP = MasteringPhysics
MA = MasteringAstronomy
CP = Cosmic Perspective (free etext in MasteringAstronomy)
TOE = The Theory of Almost Everything, Oerter
Stax = College Physics from OpenStax
Week 1, Getting Started and Constantly Accelerated Motion
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 |
Getting started |
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sign up inside of LON-CAPA
There are two test questions for you to try:
“Testing essay questions” and “Testing MC” |
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purchase MasteringPhysics by Friday, Jan 11 |
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register for MasteringAstronomy (free) |
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Ask to join the QS&BB private Facebook group |
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| THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 |
Constantly accelerated motion |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 4, Motion, including reading questions |
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PCC, chapter 3, slides |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lessons 1-3
1 & 2 are gentle reading. |
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QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 3: a math review for skimming |
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you’ve purchased MasteringPhysics, right? |
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register for MasteringAstronomy (free) |
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there are two practice questions in LON-CAPA which you can see at the top level
testing essay questions & Testing MC |
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Week 2, Force, Momentum, and Smashing Things Together
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 |
Momentum, force, and circular motion |
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From GreatRiverLearning: Lesson 5, Force and Momentum, including reading questions |
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you’ve purchased MasteringPhysics, right? |
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you’ve registered for MasteringAstronomy, right? |
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HW 1: Saturday, January 19 |
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Friday, Jan 25 |
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| THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 |
Collisions |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 6, Collisions, including reading questions |
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you’ve purchased MasteringPhysics, right? |
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HW 1: Saturday, January 19 from MasteringPhysics |
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Friday, Jan 25 |
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Week 3, Energy and Early Cosmology
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 |
Energy |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 7, Energy, including reading questions |
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register for MasteringAstronomy (free) |
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none |
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| THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 |
NO CLASS on January 24! Greek and Renaissance Cosmology |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 8, Cosmology, 1, including reading questions |
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Week 4, Newtonian Gravitation, Atoms, Charges, Magnetism, and Faraday
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 |
Newton’s Gravitation |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 9, The Cosmologies of Galileo and Newton |
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PCC chapter 8 in slides |
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For the Tuesday project: 9_tuesday_29_01_2019_v1.pdf.pdf |
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next HW 2: Saturday, February 2 |
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Friday, February 8 |
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| THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 |
Atoms, and Faraday’s Electricity and Magnetism |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 10, Charges and Magnets |
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AND Lesson 11, Faraday’s Experiments and An Extraordinary Idea |
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HW 2: Saturday, February 2 |
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Friday, February 8 |
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Week 5, Faraday’s Fields and Maxwell’s Electrodynamics
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| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 |
Faraday’s Fields |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 12, Faraday’s Fields |
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PCC chapter 5 in slides |
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HW2: Friday, February 8 |
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Maxwell’s Electrodynamics |
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From QS&BB Lessons: Lesson 13, Maxwell |
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PCC chapter 8 in slides |
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HW3: Saturday, February 9 |
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HW2: Friday, February 8 |
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Week 6, Particle Accelerators and 1890’s Discoveries
Week 7, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
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| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 |
Einstein’s Idea, Frames of Reference, What’s Wrong with Maxwell? |
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Chapter 10 in PCC |
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Chapter 2 TOE |
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| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 |
Time Dilation and Length Contraction |
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Chapter 10 in PCC |
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Chapter 2 TOE |
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Midterm: available Saturday midnight, February 24 – close Tuesday midnight, February 26 |
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HW5: Saturday, February 23 |
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HW4: Friday, February 22 |
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Week 8, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
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| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 |
Relative speeds, Experimental confirmation of Relativity, and E=mc$^2$ |
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Chapter 10 in PCC |
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Chapter 2 TOE |
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| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 |
Wrap-up of Special Relativity |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter S 3.1 – S 3.4 |
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HW6: Saturday, March 9 |
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HW5: Friday, March 1 |
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Week 9, Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
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| TUESDAY, March 12 |
Equivalence Principle and Tests of General Relativity |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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| THURSDAY, March 14 |
Black Holes and Non-Euclidean Geometries of General Relativity |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter S 3.1 – S 3.4 |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter 18 (star life) |
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HW7: Saturday, March 16 will be from MasteringPhysics (had to change because, well, Pearson) |
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HW6: Friday, March 15 |
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Week 10, Cosmology Following Einstein
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| TUESDAY, March 19 |
Recent Tests of General Relativity & Non-Euclidean Space |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter 20 (expanding universe) |
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Expanding Universe |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter 20 (expanding universe) |
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HW8: Saturday, March 23 will be from MasteringAstronomy and readings from CP |
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HW7: Friday, March 22 |
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Week 11, Different Universes, Quantum Theory
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| TUESDAY, March 26 |
Red Shift and different evolution possibilities for the universe…and the beginnings of Quantum Theory |
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Chapter 11 in PCC |
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CP (MasteringAstronomy free e-text) Chapter 20 (expanding universe) |
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Quantum Theory |
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Chapter 12 in PCC |
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HW9: MasteringPhysics |
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HW8: Friday, March 29 |
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Week 12, The beginnings of Nuclear Physics and Quantum Mechanics
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| TUESDAY, April 2 |
The Rutherford. the Bohr, and deBroglie atoms |
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Chapter 8.3 in PCC |
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Chapter 12 in PCC |
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Chapter 8.6 in PCC |
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| THURSDAY, April 5 |
Quantum Mechanics and uncertainty |
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Chapter 13 in PCC |
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HW10: MasteringPhysics |
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HW9: Friday, April 5 |
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Week 13, Quantum measurement and what we can know & Quantum Field Theory
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| TUESDAY, April 9 |
Strangeness of the state function |
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Chapter 12 in PCC |
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TOE chapter 4 |
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| THURSDAY, April 11 |
Nothing…no, I mean actually “nothing” |
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HW11: MasteringPhysics |
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HW10: Friday, April 12 |
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Week 14, Feynman Diagrams, weak interactions, and exchange forces
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| TUESDAY, April 16 |
Feynman Diagrams, particle zoo, the weak and strong interactions |
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Chapter 12 in PCC |
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TOE chapter 5 and Appendix C |
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Chapter 17 in PCC |
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CP Section 4.2 |
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primitiveDiagrams_0 (13m), primitiveDiagrams_1 (4m), primitiveDiagram_2 (9m) in: |
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3 movies on how to make Feynman Diagrams |
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| THURSDAY, April 18 |
Quarks, W and Z Bosons, and the gluon |
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TOE chapter 5 |
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Chapter 17 in PCC |
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CP Section 4.2 |
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HW12: MasteringAstronomy! plus paper version at |
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HW12 paper part |
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HW11: Sunday, April 21 |
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Week 15 last, Higgs Boson, the Big Bang is properly named, and the Flatness of the world
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| TUESDAY, April 23 |
Higgs Boson and mass |
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Chapter 12 in PCC |
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TOE chapter 9 |
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Chapter 17 in PCC |
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primitiveDiagrams_0 (13m), primitiveDiagrams_1 (4m), primitiveDiagram_2 (9m) in: |
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3 movies on how to make Feynman Diagrams |
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| THURSDAY, April 25 |
The Big Bang, for real and the geometry of the universe |
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CP Section 22.1-22.4, 23.1-23.4 |
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Midterm 2: available Friday, April 26 midnight and closes Monday, April 29 midnight |
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HW12: Friday, April 26, the MasteringAstronomy part |
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MW12: Friday, May 3, the paper part |
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