Reading assignments      Physics 9HC      spring 2003
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First read the document "How to read physics" on our website.
Note that these are listed with the latest on top. So the first
time you look at this, you should start at the bottom.

WARNING: Please pay attention to the dates. All those beyond 
the next lecture at any given time should be considered tentative 
and subject to change. Thus you should continue to check this
space for updates. 

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Reading for lecture 20  (Thursday, 5 June)

No new reading.

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Reading for lecture 19  (Tuesday, 3 June)

Moore: Q9

For a lot more (too much) detail on atoms and how quantum 
mechanics accounts for the periodic table, the thing to read
in Feynman is Chapter 19. 
The reading in Moore is not enough and that in Feynman is 
too much. Something in between would be nice. I certainly do 
not expect you to follow all the details in Feynman. The 
take-home message is that the Schroedinger equation for the 
hydrogen atom can be completely solved by precise, if rather
intricate methods. The result is the energies and wave functions
for the stationary states of the hydrogen atom. Focus on how 
the states are labeled and what the labels mean. The effects
revealed in this calculation lead to an understanding of the
periodic table.

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Reading for lecture 18  (Thursday, 29 May)

Moore: Q8
"Quantum mechanics V" on the web

The material above is the minimum. 

For more discussion and detail, there are things to read in
Feynman.

"Quantum mechanics V" is about the Bose or Fermi "statistics"
of particles, which is a generalization of the Pauli Exclusion
Principle. The relevant sections in Feynman are 
Feynman: Section 3-4 and Chapter 4.

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Reading for lecture 17  (Tuesday, 27 May)

Moore: Q10 and Q11
Feynman: Section 16-6
 
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Reading for lecture 16  (Thursday, 22 May)

Moore: Q7
Feynman: Chapter 7
 
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Reading for lecture 15  (Tuesday, 20 May)

Since we did not get to the stuff about the Schroedinger 
equation in the position basis on Thursday, we'll do that
Tuesday. Thus look at the reading for lecture 14 again.
 
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Reading for lecture 14  (Thursday, 15 May)

"Quantum mechanics IV" on the website
Feynman Sections 13-1,2,3,4 and 16-1,2,3,4,5
Again, the Feynman readings are not strictly required, but you
will probably find them to be very helpful, since the web 
document is terse.

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Reading for lecture 13  (Tuesday, 13 May)

"Quantum mechanics II" on the website
"Quantum mechanics III" on the website
Those are the short version. It is not required, but if you 
want a longer and more descriptive discussion, 
read Feynman vol. III, Chapter 8. Also, for even more
discussion and lots of interesting examples, see chapters 9-12
of Feynman. Sections 10-6 and 10-7 contain material that I will
discuss in lecture as an example.

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Lecture 12

MIDTERM: Thursday, May 8.
It will cover the material through the reading for Lecture 10.

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Reading for lecture 11  (Tuesday, 6 May)

Feynman vol. III, Chapter 5

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Reading for lecture 10  (Thursday, 1 May)

"Quantum mechanics I" on the website

Feynman vol. III, Chapter 3, Secs. 1, 2, 3

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Reading for lecture 9  (Tuesday,  29 Apr.)

Moore: Q6

This reading is a bit problematic. It includes a lot of stuff
that we will not be emphasising at this point. However, we do 
want to get a good grasp of the points in section Q6.3. Thus 
give a light read to the whole chapter and then go back and 
concentrate on Q6.3.

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Reading for lecture 8  (Thursday, 24 Apr.)

Moore: Q5

Feynman vol. III, Chapter 2

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Reading for lecture 7  (Tuesday, 22 Apr.)

Moore: Q3 Q4

Also if the use of complex numbers in class Thursday was unfamiliar
to you, please jump ahead and read section Q5.6.

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Reading for lecture 6  (Thursday, 17 Apr.)

Feynman vol. III, Chapter 1

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Reading for lecture 5  (Tuesday, 15 Apr.)

Web documents: Two source intensity 
               Multiple source interference and diffraction
               Sum formula
               Doppler shift

Read the Doppler shift one at your convenience. We will not 
spend much, if any, time on it in lecture. We have already 
covered the light version of it last quarter. But since
other waves have a real physical medium, motion relative
to the medium is meaningful, and the results are different
than they were for light!

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Reading for lecture 4  (Thursday, 10 Apr.)

Moore: Q2
Web document: Beats

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Reading for lecture 3  (Tuesday, 8 Apr.)

Moore: Q1
Web document: Fourier series

The fourier series document is more advanced and goes into the details
of exactly how functions can be represented in terms of their fourier
series. In reading that, you can see that in addition to being a
qualitative idea, fourier analysis is also a very precise quantitative
tool. For now, the details are mainly for those who are interested in
how it really works. But you will definitely encounter this in other
courses, so you might like to get an initial look at it now.

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Reading for lecture 2  (Thursday, 3 Apr.)

Web document: Wave equation
If you did not do the lecture 1 reading already, do that too.

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Reading for lecture 1  (Tuesday, 1 Apr.)

Review the harmonic oscillator in Chapter N11 of Moore.

Web documents:
    Introduction to waves
    Energy and power

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