Physics 100 - Fall 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
Our course is over! You can find the final exam solutions and grade distributions below. You can check the details/accuracy of your scores in BlackBoard as soon as I get the information put into that system.
There was a mistake on an early version of the syllabus that I released. The syllabus available at the link below is the correct version. The syllabus should give the grading schemes as
Scheme
Exam 1
Exam 2
Final exam
Present.
Recitation
1
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32%
40%
20%
8%
2
32%
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40%
20%
8%
3
24%
24%
24%
20%
8%
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.
Formula sheet accompanying exam 1
Formula sheet accompanying exam 2
Additional reading on cosmology
Best numerical average distribution (final average 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 3:30-4:30 pm and Tuesday 1:30-3:00 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: 
from L to R ... Cheng, Dan, Manuel
Manuel Alves: malves2@mail.rochester.edu
Cheng Sun : csun2@mail.rochester.edu
Daniel Linford: dlinford@mail.rochester.edu
Recitation times:
Monday 1530-1730, Hylan 102
Wednesday Noon-1350, Hylan 203
Friday 1400-1600, Hylan 105
Lect 1 - September 5, 2007 - Introduction to course (see syllabus above), nature of science
Lect 2 - September 10, 2007 - Kinematic variables, Newton's Laws
Lect 3 - September 12, 2007 - Newton's Laws, electricity, gravitation, fields
Lect 4 - September 17, 2007 - Fields, start of special theory of relativity
Lect 5 - September 19, 2007 - Relativity, magnetism
Lect 6 - September 24, 2007 - Maxwell's equations, light, waves
Lect 7 - September 26, 2007 - electromagnetic waves, start of blackbody radiation
Lect 8 - October 1, 2007 - Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, de Broglie
Lect 9 - October 3, 2007 - Atomic spectra, Bohr model of the atom
Lect 10 - October 15, 2007 - multi-electron atoms, chemistry, periodic chart
Lect 11 - October 17, 2007 - More chemistry, start of quantum uncertainty
Lect 12 - October 22, 2007 - quantum uncertainty (slides in PDF)
.............................................( Audio 64-kbs mp3, Audio 16-kbs mp3 )
Lect 13 - October 24, 2007 - Nuclear physics, (slides in PDF), (Audio in mp3)
Lect 14 - October 29, 2007 - More nuclear physics
Lect 15 - October 31, 2007 - Nuclear physics, life cycle of stars
Lect 16 - November 5, 2007 - Particle physics
Lect 17 - November 7, 2007 - More particle physics
Lect 18 - November 12, 2007 - Particles, views of earth in cosmos, gravity
Lect 19 - November 19, 2007 - big bang cosmology
Lect 20 - November 26, 2007 - Cosmology, inflation, dark matter, dark energy
Lect 21 - November 28, 2007 - More cosmology, LHC, JDEM, supersymmetry
Lect 22 - December 3, 2007 - GPS presentation - fact sheet, slides
Lect 23 - December 5, 2007 - Nuclear terrorism presentation - fact sheet, slides
.................................................- Asteroids and extinctions presentation - fact sheet, slides
Lect 24 - December 10, 2007 - Niels Bohr presentation - fact sheet, slides
.................................................. - Cosmic microwave background pres. - fact sheet, slides
Lect 25 - December 12, 2007 - Music presentation - fact sheet, slides
.................................................. - Nuclear bombs - fact sheet, slides
Problem set 1 - due September 13, 2007
Problem set 2 - due September 20, 2007
Problem set 3 - due September 27, 2007
Problem set 4 - due October 4, 2007
Problem set 5 - due October 18, 2007
Problem set 6 - due October 25, 2007
Problem set 7 - due November 1, 2007
Problem set 8 - due November 8, 2007
Problem set 9 - due November 29, 2007
Problem set 10 - due December 6, 2007
Recitation 1 - for week starting September 17, 2007
Recitation 2 - for week starting September 24, 2007
Recitation 3 - for week starting October 1, 2007
Recitation 4 - for week starting October 15, 2007
Recitation 5 - for week starting October 22, 2007
Recitation 6 - for week starting October 29, 2007
Recitation 7 - for week starting November 5, 2007
Recitation 8 - for week starting November 26, 2007
Recitation 9 - for week starting December 3, 2007