Physics H133 -- Spring 2012

Welcome to the Physics H133 home page! The course information is available here plus lots of supplementary info. Please check this page regularly.

Recent changes to this page:

03-Jun-2012 --- The final exam cover sheet is available. Take a look!
01-Jun-2012 --- The key to Quiz 9 has been posted.
01-Jun-2012 --- Solutions for Problem Set #18 have been posted. They are password protected; the username is "physics" (without the "'s) and the password is "h133" (where the h must be lowercase).
31-May-2012 --- A key for 1094 Session 9 is linked below under 1094 Sessions.
31-May-2012 --- Erratum for PS#17 solutions: In T7B1, the last line should have Exp(-1.27^2) and the final answer should be 0.018 instead of 0.015.
27-May-2012 --- Some fun perpetual motion machine designs (and related impossible machines) can be found at the Museum of Unworkable Devices. Check out: It'll never work! and the Classic Magnetic Shield Engine. There are also animations.
26-May-2012 --- The final exam for H133 will be on Thursday, June 7 from 3:30-5:18pm in Smith 1005.
24-May-2012 --- Excerpts from the Maxwell's Demon chapters of the Mr. Tompkins books are available. Compare the original and modernized versions (same password protection as with homework solutions).
21-May-2012 --- Final exam review sheets are now available (these will also be handed out in class). Please review them. You are allowed to use them (with your own annotations) for the final exam.
17-May-2012 --- Check out an article entitled A new look at prolonged radiation exposure.
16-May-2012 --- More Unit T programs (Windows versions): Equilib, Mboltz, Eboltz. MacOS versions available on here.
13-May-2012 --- Here's the program StatMech (this is the Windows version). You can find the MacOS version on this page.
02-May-2012 --- Check out What Particle Are You? from Sean Carroll's blog Cosmic Variance.
27-Mar-2012 --- Links to the PhET applets (shown in class). (You can get your own copy here!)

Course description and info, goals, instructors' contact information, grading, etc.
Assignments
1094 Sessions
General handouts
Exam schedule
Links
- Links to physics applets from the Physics2000 project and the PhET applets
- Here's the program SchroSolver (this is the Windows version). The MacOS version can be found here .
- Links to additional information

Assignments

Reading Assignments, and Lecture Notes

The readings are from the Six Ideas that Shaped Physics texts. Chapter Q1 is from the Unit Q text, Chapter T1 is from the Unit T text, and so on. The assigned chapters must be read before the class on the date indicated.

The lecture notes provided here were prepared by Prof. Brian Winer. They are provided for your use in learning the material, but I will not be following them closely. I am grateful to Prof. Winer for permitting me to make his notes available here.

Reading	Topic	Reading Due	News	Lecture Notes
Ch. Q1	Standing Waves	27 Mar	26-Mar, 27-Mar	Lecture Q1
Ch. Q2	The Wave Nature of Light	28 Mar	29-Mar, 30-Mar	Lecture Q2
Ch. Q3	The Particle Nature of Light	30 Mar	02-Apr, 03-Apr	Lecture Q3
Ch. Q4	The Wave Nature of Matter	3 Apr	05-Apr, 06-Apr	Lecture Q4
Ch. Q5	The Quantum Facts of Life	5 Apr	09-Apr, 10-Apr	Lecture Q5
Ch. Q6	The Wavefunction	9 Apr	12-Apr, 13-Apr	Lecture Q6
Ch. Q7	Bound Systems	13 Apr	16-Apr 17-Apr	Lecture Q7
Ch. Q8	Spectra	16 Apr	19-Apr	Lecture Q8
Ch. Q9	Understanding Atoms	18 Apr	20-Apr, 23-Apr	Lecture Q9
Ch. Q10	The Schroedinger Equation	23 Apr	24-Apr	Lecture Q10
Ch. Q11	Energy Eigenfunctions	25 Apr	26-Apr	Lecture Q11
Ch. Q12	Introduction to Nuclei	30 Apr	30-Apr
Ch. Q13	Stable and Unstable Nuclei	3 May	03-May, 04-May
Ch. Q14	Radioactivity	4 May	07-May
Ch. Q15	Nuclear Technology	7 May	08-May
Ch. T1	Temperature	9 May	10-May, 11-May	Lecture T1
Ch. T2	Ideal Gases	11 May	14-May	Lecture T2
Ch. T3	Gas Processes	15 May	15-May, 17-May	Lecture T3
Ch. T4	Macrostates and Microstates	17 May	18-May	Lecture T4
Ch. T5	The Second Law	21 May	21-May, 22-May	Lecture T5
Ch. T6	Temperature and Entropy	23 May	24-May	Lecture T6
Ch. T7	Some Mysteries Resolved	25 May		Lecture T7
Ch. T8	Calculating Entropy Changes	29 May	29-May
Ch. T9	Heat Engines	31 May	01-Jun

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Homework: Problem Sets and Hints

Click on the problem set number to get a copy of the assignment.

Due Date	Assignment	Comments	Solutions
03/29/12	PS #1	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/02/12	PS #2	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/05/12	PS #3	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/09/12	PS #4	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/12/12	PS #5	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/16/12	PS #6	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/19/12	PS #7	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/23/12	PS #8	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/26/12	PS #9	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
04/30/11	PS #10	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/07/12	PS #11	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/10/12	PS #12	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/14/12	PS #13	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/17/12	PS #14	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/21/12	PS #15	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/24/12	PS #16	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
05/29/11	PS #17	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf
06/01/12	PS #18	hints, suggestions, etc.	pdf

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Reading Quizzes

Quiz Number	Date of Quiz	Chapter(s)	Problems and Solutions
1	03/30/12	Q1,Q2	Quiz 1
2	04/05/12	Q3,Q4	Quiz 2
3	04/13/12	Q5,Q6	Quiz 3
4	04/20/12	Q7,Q8	Quiz 4
5	04/26/12	Q9,Q10,Q11	Quiz 5
6	05/11/12	Q12-Q14	Quiz 6
7	05/18/12	T1,T2,T3	Quiz 7
8	05/25/12	T4,T5,T6	Quiz 8
9	06/01/12	T7,T8	Quiz 9

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1094 Sessions

Copies of any handouts are available from Prof. Furnstahl.

Date of Session	Session Guide	Solutions
03/28/12	Session 1	pdf
04/04/12	Session 2	pdf
04/11/12	Session 3	pdf
04/18/12	Session 4	pdf
04/25/12	Session 5 worksheet	pdf
05/09/12	Session 6	pdf
05/16/12	Session 7	pdf
05/23/12	Session 8	pdf
05/30/12	Session 9	pdf

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Handouts

Copies of any handouts are available from Prof. Furnstahl.

Date Out	Handout	Comments
00/00/00	Problem Solving (pdf)	General guidelines for problem solving and checking answers.
03/29/12	Dimensional Analysis 1 (pdf)	Procedure for systematic dimensional analysis, with example.
00/00/00	Uncertainty Principle (pdf)	Implications for a localized particle from the uncertainty principle and the deBroglie relation.
04/06/12	Complex Numbers (ps) (pdf)	Some things you should know about complex numbers.
04/17/12	Wavefunctions (pdf)	Rules for sketching wavefunctions.
04/17/12	Midterm Review Sheets (pdf)	What you should know for the H133 Unit Q exam.

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Examinations

There will be a two-hour evening midterm on Wednesday, May 2, in any two-hour block between 6:30pm and 10:00pm.)
The final exam date and time is fixed by OSU. For H133 it will be on Thursday, June 7, between 3:30pm and 5:18pm in Smith 1005.

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Links to Additional Information

Check out the interactive chart of the nuclides or a pdf versions of several useful charts. Another good site is the Table of Isotopes from LBL.
"Physics Questions People Ask Fermilab" --- Answers by real physicists to all sorts of physics questions.
Here are two pages with links to animated images of pulses: "colliding" pulses and reflecting pulses.

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Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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