Physics 100 - Spring 2007 - University of Rochester
Physics of the Natural World
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spiral galaxy in Andromeda, rollover is Z to quark-antiquark-gluon event in the SLD detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
I will hold a Q&A session on final exam material on Monday, May 7 at 2 pm in B&L 208.
Please note: the final exam for P100 is Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 4 pm in Hoyt Auditorium. The version of the syllabus handed out at the start of the term has the incorrect date! Sorry about that.
Ponder this:
"22,000 days. It's not a lot. It's all you got. 22,000 days."
- The Moody Blues , in Long Distance Voyager released in 1981"Understanding is a lot like sex. It's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally."
- Frank Oppenheimer
Our Hero!!
Sir Isaac Newton
Listen to the ballad of Sir Isaac Newton (found here). Our man Isaac invented much of the basic physics we'll discuss. Before that he did backup vocals for Bon Jovi.
Presentation grade distribution
Best numerical average distribution (this is what was used for letter grades)
A few potentially useful links:
The physics classroom (online tutorial on mechanics)
Fear of physics - another online site with visuals that can help you make sense of some things
Bored? Check these out (trust me ... these are cool even if you aren't into physics):
FSU magnet lab powers of ten ... perspectives on size scales.
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Monday 12:30-1:45 pm and Monday 3;15-4:00 pm. If that doesn't work get in touch with me for an appointment ... feel free to drop by without an appt. with the understanding that I might in the middle of something else and need to set up a better time to meet.
Recitation leaders: 
Left to right: Dan, Jeremy, Manuel
Manuel Alves: malves2@mail.rochester.edu
Jeremy Wolcott: jw005m@mail.rochester.edu
Daniel Linford: dlinford@mail.rochester.edu
Recitation times:
Wednesday 1200-1350, B&L 270
Thursday 1530-1730, Hylan 102
Friday 1400-1600, B&L 208
project listing (number/topic map)
project topic listing by topic number
Solar system formation review sheet (grp 17 - April 16)
GPS review sheet (grp 6 - April 18)
Football review sheet (grp 27 - April 18)
Feynman review sheet (grp 24A - April 23)
Nuclear terrorism review sheet (grp 21 - April 23)
SETI review sheet (grp 18 - April 25)
Sound/music review sheet (grp 26 - April 25)
Comets and mass extinctions (grp 25 - April 30)
Galileo (grp 24 - April 30)
Nuclear weapons (grp 2 - May 2)
String theory (grp 14 - May 2)
Lect 1 - January 17, 2007 - Introduction to course (see syllabus above), nature of science
Lect 2 - January 22, 2007 - nature of science, relativity, time dilation
Lect 3 - January 29, 2007 - relativity, Lorentz transformations, speed, velocity, mass, force
Lect 4 - January 31, 2007 - energy-momentum in relativity, Newton's Laws
Lect 5 - February 5, 2007 - Newton's Laws, atoms, Coulomb's law
Lect 6 - February 7, 2007 - Electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell's eqns, start of light
Lect 7 - February 9, 2007 - EM fields, light, waves - link to streaming video
Lect 8 - February 12, 2007 - light, waves, blackbody, photoelectric effect
Lect 9 - February 14, 2007 - waves, de Broglie hypothesis, Bohr atom
Lect 10 - February 19, 2007 - Bohr atom, schroedinger equation, Rutherford scattering
Lect 11 - February 26, 2007 - multi-electron atoms, periodic chart, spin, chemistry
Lect 12 - February 28, 2007 - quantum mechanics, probability and uncertainty
Lect 13 - March 5, 2007 - quantum uncertainty, x-rays, lasers
Lect 14 - March 7, 2007 - nuclear physics
Lect 15 - March 19, 2007 - more nuclear physics
Lect 16 - March 21, 2007 - stars, view of earth's place in cosmos -> gravitation
Lect 17 - March 26, 2007 - gravitation from Newton to Einstein, start of particle physics
Lect 18 - March 28, 2007 - the Standard Model of particle physics
Lect 19 - April 2, 2007 - particle physics, Higgs, story of neutrinos this is a ppt file due to need to preserve annotations that did not convert to pdf nicely. Let me know if the ppt causes you a problem.
Lect 20 - April 4, 2007 - particle physics, start of cosmology
Lect 21 - April 9, 2007 - cosmology, the current paradigm (inflationary Big Bang model)
Lect 22 - April 16, 2007 - cosmology, evidence for Big Bang
Lect 23 - April 18, 2007 - cosmology, fluctuations in CMB, dark matter
Problem set 1 - due January 31, 2007
Problem set 2 - due February 7, 2007
Problem set 3 - due February 14, 2007
Problem set 4 - due February 22, 2007
Problem set 5 - due March 1, 2007
Problem set 6 - due March 8, 2007
Problem set 7 - due March 22, 2007
Problem set 8 - due March 29, 2007
Problem set 9 - due April 13, 2007
Problem set 10 - due May 2, 2007
Unavailable at this time
Recitation 1 - for week starting January 29, 2007
Recitation 2 - for week starting February 5, 2007
Recitation 3 - for week starting February 12, 2007
Recitation 4 - for week starting February 19, 2007
Recitation 5 - for week starting February 26, 2007
Recitation 6 - for week starting March 5, 2007
Recitation 7 - for week starting March 19, 2007
Recitation 8 - for week starting March 26, 2007
Recitation 9 - for week starting April 2, 2007
Recitation 10 - for week starting April 9, 2007
Recitation 11 - for week starting April 16, 2007