SUNY-Geneseo/Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 223: Analytical Physics III

Fall 2011

Course Information:

 
Dr. Mclean's home page
Syllabus Required Course Materials Grading Policy
Course Outline
 

Course Web Links:

   
CAPA main page   Get Acrobat reader
Physics Learning Center (with caveat) "Greatest Hits" from Analytical Physics II Final Eq. Sheet from Analytical Physics II

Useful Sites and Annimations :

MIT site with much E&M
EM wave applet
Circular Polarization Animation 1
Circular Polarization Animation 2

Animations, etc, about waves
Excel sheet demo of Snell's Law
Diffraction with phasors

Web of Ideal Gas Equations
Excel sheet of Maxwell speed distribution
Black Body Demo
Excel sheet of Planck distribution

Interactive Minkowski diagram
Train through a tunnel diagram

Twin Paradox Minkowski diagram
What the Twins see
Algebra for the Twins

Momentum Conservation Example

Relativistic eye view (site with many movies)

Links activated (white background) as they become available or are updated for this year.

Solutions for CAPA Homework Assignments:

The following show detailed solutions of most, but not all, homework problems.  Solutions not shown here will be posted upon request, within 48 hours.

HW set 1 HW set 2 HW set 3
HW set 4 HW set 5 HW set 6
Quiz 1 HW set 7 HW set 8
HW set 9 Quiz 2 HW set 10
HW set 11 HW set 12 HW set 13
HW set 14    

Tests from last year:

These are to assist you in studying.
Note that this year (2011), Exam 2 includes the subject of diffraction intensity and maxima, which are in 2010 Test 1, questions 10, 12, 13, 14.

Without solutions, for use as practice tests: (PDF documents) Test 1 (includes some material not on 2011 Exam 1) Test 2 Final
With solutions, to check your work (GIF images) Test 1 Test 2 Final

This year's Tests:

  Lectures covered Reading covered HW covered      
Exam 1 (10/13): 8/30 through 10/4 HRW: Ch. 14, 32 (Sec 1–5), 33 (Sec 1–9), 35 (Sec 1–6), 36 (Sec 1–3) #2–#6 Equation Sheet Solutions Results
Exam 2 (11/21): 9/29 through 11/8 HRW: Ch. 36 (Sec 4, 5, 7), 18, 19 (not Sec 6, 7)

#7–#10, part of #11

Equation Sheet Solutions Results
Final Exam (12/14): All, focused on 11/10 through 12/8

Reading not previously tested:
HRW: 19 (Sec 7), 37 (Sec 1–10), 38 (Sec 2,3)
T&R: Ch. 2 (Sec 0–10), 3 (Sec 1–6)

All, focused on #11–#14

THIS LINK describes the coverage in more detail.

Equation Sheet Solutions Results

enrollment trendYou may hear the physics faculty talking sometimes about how much the major has grown recently.  As shown in the graph to the right, it's actually been growing for about a decade, but it still takes us by surprise.

Gee, I joined the faculty in 1999.  Coincidence?