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Week | Date | Reading | TOPIC(s) |
1. | 2 Jan. | Ch. 19 | Thermodynamics - Domingo's Introduction (in tutorial) |
2. | 8 Jan. | ``Count the ways'' - defining ENTROPY in Stat. Mech. | |
``What's hot?'' - defining TEMPERATURE in Stat. Mech. | |||
Boltzmann - occupation probabilities | |||
3. | 15 Jan. | , Ch. 18 | Pressure & Ideal Gases |
Ch. 20,21 | Engines & Refrigerators - practical Thermodynamics | ||
4. | 22 Jan. | , Ch. 22 | Action at a Distance - why invent a ``field''? |
, Ch. 11,23 | Symmetric Conservation - Gauss' law for & | ||
5. | 29 Jan. | Ch. 24 | Potential vs. Capacity |
Ch. 25 | ``C & thee'' - capacitance explored | ||
6. | 5 Feb. | Ch. 26 | ``R & I'' - resistance vs. current; Kirchhoff's rules |
``RC'' - time constant in DC circuits | |||
Ch. 27 | Transport Theory | ||
7. | 12 Feb. | Ch. 28 | ``I cross B'' - the Lorentz force and why we invent |
Ch. 29 | ``Do , do , do!'' - moving charges make (Biot & Savart) | ||
``Link the loop with symmetry'' - using Ampère's law | |||
19 Feb. | Spring Reading Break | ||
8. | 26 Feb. | TRIUMF tour | |
9. | 5 Mar | Ch. 30 | ``Don't change that flux!'' - inductance, Faraday & Lenz |
``Inductive logic'' - defining, calculating and using L | |||
10. | 12 Mar | Ch. 31 | LCR circuits & Alternating Current |
Ch. 32 | Maxwell's ``Displacement Current'' | ||
11. | 19 Mar | Ch. 32 | Maxwell's equations |
``Problems with Maxwell'' - setting the stage for Einstein | |||
, Ch. 39 | ``Handwaving'' -- time dilation & Lorentz contraction | ||
12. | 26 Mar | ``Doing right'' - the Lorentz transformations | |
``E=mc2 and all that'' - relativistic kinematics | |||
13. | 2 Apr | ``Small stuff'' - introduction to elementary particles | |