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Spring 2021 P143
PHYS 143b Honors Waves, Optics, & Heat Spring Quarter, 2021
Instructor: Cheng Chin
Online lectures: Tue. (Zoom143bTu) & Thur. (Zoom143bTh) 9:30‐10:50 am CDT
Online office hours: Tue & Thur 11:00‐12:30 pm CDT (Zoom)
Textbooks:
Waves by David Morin
Laboratory Sessions:
UChicago Phys 143s Lab wiki
Laboratory administrators: Mark Chantell, Dave McCowan
Teaching Assistants:
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Lab Session 1 (Zoom and Piazza) |
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* Online labs are available from Monday 5pm to Friday 6:30 pm. Lab reports are due on Friday at 6:30 pm.
** All times are Chicago time. (Check the local time in Chicago.)
Homeworks, Lab reports and Midterm:
All homeworks, reports and midterm should be submitted to Canvas P143b in the format of pdf or jpg before the deadline. They will be returned to the students on Canvas. Late policy for HWs and Lab reports: -10% per day. Late midterm submission is not allowed.
Grade distribution: HW 30%, Lab 30%, Midterm 20% and Final 20%
Class outline:
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Lecture |
Text/Lab |
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3/30 |
Lecture 1: Harmonic oscillator |
Chapter 1.1 and 1.2 |
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4/1 |
Lecture 2: Driven oscillator (HW1) |
Chapter 1.3 |
2 |
4/6 |
Lecture 3: Coupled oscillators |
Chapter 2.1 and 2.2 |
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4/8 |
Lecture 4: Normal modes (HW2) |
Chapter 2.3 |
3 |
4/13 |
Lecture 5: Wave equation |
Chapter 2.4 Lab 1: Speed of Light |
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4/15 |
Lecture 6: Spectral Analysis (HW3) |
Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 |
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4/20 |
Lecture 7: Transverse waves |
Chapter 4.1, 4.2 Lab 2: Wave Motion |
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4/22 |
Lecture 8: Sound waves (HW4) |
Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 |
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4/27 |
Lecture 9: Dispersion, Doppler effect and Shock waves |
Chapter 6.3, 7.2 Lab 3: Interference |
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4/29 |
Lecture 10: Electromagneitc waves (HW5) |
Chapter 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 |
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5/4 |
Lecture 11: Reflection and refraction |
Chapter 8.6, 8.8 |
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5/6 |
Lecture 12: Geometrical Optics (HW6) |
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5/11 |
Lecture 13: Interference and diffraction |
Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5 Lab 4: Diffraction |
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5/13 |
Lecture 14: Ideal gas (HW7) |
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5/18 |
Lecture 15: Heat engines |
Lab 5: Geometric Optics Theory |
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5/20 |
Lecture 16: Laws of thermodynamics (HW8) |
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9 |
5/25 |
Lecture 17: Heat transfer |
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5/27 |
Lecture 18: Entropy |
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6/7-6/11 |
Final |
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