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Skeptic's Guide.
Week | Date | Reading | TOPICS |
1. | 4 Jan. |
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Statistical Mechanics vs. Thermodynamics |
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"Count the ways" - defining ENTROPY | ||
2. | 7 Jan. | ![]() |
"What's Hot?" - defining TEMPERATURE |
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Boltzmann - occupation probabilities | ||
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Ideal Gases - equipartition & pressure | ||
3. | 14 Jan. | ![]() |
Particle in a Box - Maxwellian velocity distibutions |
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"Charge! " - Coulomb's Law | ||
4. | 21 Jan. | ![]() |
Action at a Distance - why invent a "field"? |
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Symmetric Conservation
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5. | 28 Jan. | Ch. 28 | Potential vs. Capacity |
Ch. 29,30 | "C & thee" - capacitance explored | ||
6. | 4 Feb. | Ch. 31 | "R & I" - resistance vs. current; Kirchhoff's rules |
"RC" - time constant in DC circuits | |||
Ch. 31 | Transport Theory | ||
7. | 11 Feb. | Ch. 32 | "I cross B"
- the Lorentz force and why we invent ![]() |
Ch. 33 | "Do ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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"Link the loop with symmetry" - using Ampère's law | |||
18 Feb. | Spring Reading Break | ||
8. | 25 Feb. | TRIUMF tour | |
Midterm Examination | |||
9. | 4 Mar | Ch. 34,36 | "Don't change that flux!" - inductance, Faraday & Lenz |
"Inductive logic" - defining, calculating and using L | |||
10. | 11 Mar | Ch. 37 | LCR circuits & Alternating Current |
Ch. 38 | Maxwell's "Displacement Current" | ||
11. | 18 Mar | Ch. 38,39 | Maxwell's equations: "Let there be light!" |
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Thin film interference | ||
12. | 25 Mar | ![]() |
N slit interference |
Ch. 42,43 | Diffraction | ||
13. | 1 Apr | ![]() |
Concept Maps |
Review | |||
mid-Apr | Final Examination |