TENTATIVE OUTLINE FOR SPRING 2001:

${\cal H}$ = look it up in the HyperTextBook: http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/htb/

Week Date Reading TOPIC(s)
       
 1.  2 Jan. Ch. 19 Thermodynamics - Domingo's Introduction (in tutorial)
 2.  8 Jan. ${\cal H}$ ``Count the ways'' - defining ENTROPY in Stat. Mech.
    ${\cal H}$ ``What's hot?'' - defining TEMPERATURE in Stat. Mech.
    ${\cal H}$ Boltzmann - occupation probabilities
 3. 15 Jan. ${\cal H}$, Ch. 18 Pressure & Ideal Gases
    Ch. 20,21 Engines & Refrigerators - practical Thermodynamics
 4. 22 Jan. ${\cal H}$, Ch. 22 Action at a Distance - why invent a ``field''?
    ${\cal H}$, Ch. 11,23 Symmetric Conservation - Gauss' law for $\vec{g}$ & $\vec{E}$
 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 $\vec{B}$
    Ch. 29 ``Do $\vec{B}$, do $\vec{B}$, do!'' - moving charges make $\vec{B}$ (Biot & Savart)
      ``Link the loop with symmetry'' - using Ampère's law
       
  19 Feb. Spring Reading Break
       
 8. 26 Feb.   TRIUMF tour
       
    \fbox{ \sl Physics Midterm Examination }
       
 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
    ${\cal H}$, Ch. 39 ``Handwaving'' ${\cal{STR}}$ -- time dilation & Lorentz contraction
12. 26 Mar ${\cal H}$ ``Doing ${\cal{STR}}$ right'' - the Lorentz transformations
    ${\cal H}$ ``E=mc2 and all that'' - relativistic kinematics
13.  2 Apr ${\cal H}$ ``Small stuff'' - introduction to elementary particles
       
  $\textstyle \parbox{0.5in}{\raggedright Apr 12, 17, 20 or 24}$ \fbox{ \sl Physics Final Examination }
       




Jess H. Brewer
2001-01-09