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Physics 2213B Modern Physics Honors Section

Physics 2213B Modern Physics Honors Section. Professor Elisa Riedo Howey Physics Building Room N107 4-6580 elisa.riedo@physics.gatech.edu Class time: MWF 10 -11 Office hours: Monday 11.00 -12.00 Or email me. Or call me. Welcome to Modern Physics!.

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Physics 2213B Modern Physics Honors Section

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  1. Physics 2213B Modern PhysicsHonors Section Professor Elisa Riedo Howey Physics Building Room N107 4-6580 elisa.riedo@physics.gatech.edu Class time: MWF 10 -11 Office hours: Monday 11.00 -12.00 Or email me. Or call me.

  2. Welcome to Modern Physics! Modern Physics will take you from the 19th century up to the 21st! It’s all the ideas that have changed the world!

  3. Some more information Class web page: http://www.physics.gatech.edu/research/riedo/Teaching/Modern_Physics/web_page.htm I have a list of your email addresses, but feel free to send me an email with your GA Tech email address. And it’d be nice if you’d also include your major, telephone number, and anything else you’d like to tell me. This way, I can tailor the course to your needs and let you know if we have to, say, cancel a class.

  4. Course required text: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (3rd ed.) by Thornton & Rex For problems, you will find plenty of problems on the book Other helpful books: 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics (Schaum's Solved Problems) by A.Halpern The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Phillips Feynman (Author) Physics by Marcelo Alonso (Author), Edward Finn (Author) Thermal Physics by C. Kittel and H. Kroemer (Freeman)

  5. My lectures will be a mix of PPT slides and White board! All my Power Point lectures will be on my web site: http://www.physics.gatech.edu/research/riedo/Teaching/Modern_Physics/web_page.htm (click on “Lectures”).

  6. Homework Homework (4) will be due in class (beginning or end of the class) on the date indicated in the calendar (see web page) I'll try to grade and return the homework within a few days. No late homework are accepted. You can work with others on homework (I encourage you to do so!), but write it up yourself.

  7. Quizzes There will be 4 "one-hour" quizzes, but only 3 will be used for your grades. If you miss one you do not need any justification, the other 3 quizzes will be automatically considered. If you do all 4 quizzes, the best 3 scores will be considered. The quiz dates are indicated on the calendar 4 Quiz (all Mondays)  3 for grades So if you’re sick or just having a bad day on 1 quiz day, don’t worry.

  8. Final Project There will be no final, but there will be a term project. It will involve creating a PowerPoint lecture on an advanced Modern Physics subject of your choice. It will be a 15 minutes presentation (plus 5 minutes of questions) and you will present it in class, the week before dead week, during dead week or during the final exam schedule (YOU CHOOSE).

  9. Grading Homework (4)  15% Quiz (4, but 1 can be dropped)  60% Final Project  25%

  10. No one’s perfect. So we give lots of partial credit. But you must say what you’re doing! Write a lot of text in addition to equations in your homework and quizzes.

  11. The Importance of Having Class In the past, people who have skipped a lot of classes have received very bad grades. Conversely, people who’ve come to most or all of the classes nearly always receive A’s and B’s. You should come to class because there’s a lot that I’ll say that won’t be in the Power Point files. And which will be on the quizzes.

  12. Understanding the ideas of each lecture requires the knowledge of the previous lectures. If you keep up, you won’t end up looking like this the night before the quizzes!

  13. Modern Physics has very some unintuitive ideas. In fact, this course will hit you with more than any other course you’ll ever take. The goal is simply to expose you to them, and later courses will cover them on more detail.

  14. Program:  The birth of modern physics TRex Ch 1 (1 lecture)  Special relativity 1, 2, & 3 TRex Ch 2 (6 lectures)  The basis of quantum mechanics TRex Ch 3 (3 lectures)  The Bohr atom TRex Ch 4 (3 lectures)  Quantum mechanics 1 & 2 TRex Chs 5, 6 (9 lectures)  The hydrogen atom TRex Ch 7 (3 lectures)  Atomic physics TRex Ch 8 (3 lectures)  Statistical physics TRex Ch 9 (6 lectures)  Molecules and solids TRex Ch 10 (6 lectures)  Semiconductor Theory and Devices Ch 11 Nuclei and nuclear interactions TRex Ch 12 & 13 (optional reading) Particle physics TRex Ch 14 (optional reading) General relativity TRex Ch 15 (optional reading) Cosmology TRex Ch 16(optional reading)

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