Supplemental Material for Phys 371

Supplementary Materials for Phys 371

SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Lecture 1
- Motion viewed in a non-inertial reference frame
- Review of Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical coordinate systems by Dan Fleisch. A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
- Lecture 1 summary
Lecture 2
- Michelson-Morley experiment wiki article
- Michelson-Morley interferometer applet
- Michelson interferometer phase shift upon changing the length of one arm (look at 0:40 in the video)
- The LIGO interferometer
- On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, by Albert Einstein
- Lecture 2 Highlights
Lecture 3
- Classic movie about the measurement of time dilation: "An Experiment With Mu Mesons"
- Light clock / time dilation animation
- A good video about simultaneity
- A video about the Lorentz transformation
- Lecture 3 Highlights
Lecture 4
- Lecture 4 Highlights
Lecture 5
- Lecture 5 highlights
Lecture 6
- Quasar PKS 2000-330 with redshift z = 3.78. The current record holder with z = 7.54
- Lecture 6 highlights
Lecture 7
- Twin Paradox: The Case of the Identically Accelerated Twins
- Lecture 7 highlights
Lecture 8
- Some Special Relativity questions from the Physics GRE subject test
- Lecture 8 highlights
Lecture 9
- Lecture 9 highlights
Lecture 10
- Exam 1 first two pages
- Exam 1 results
Lecture 11
- Link to the recorded lecture 11
- Slides used in Lecture 11
- Compton scattering on wikipedia
- Compton's description of his inelastic x-ray scatering measurements
- Derivation of Compton's equation for inelastic light scattering
- Lecture 11 highlights
Lecture 12
- Lecture 12 highlights
Lecture 13
- Lecture 13 highlights

MODERN PHYSICS

Lecture 14
- Description of Thomson's e/m experiment for electrons
- Early e/m measurements
- Millikan oil drop experiment to determine the electric charge e
- Classical review: Modes of Oscillation
- Blackbody radiation spectrum
- Planck distribution function
- Commercial blackbody radiation source1, source2, source3, source4
- History of the Planck distribution function
- Why did Planck take E = h nu and not some other dependence?
- Blackbody radiation spectrum applet
- Wikipedia article on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation spectrum
- How infrared thermometers work, more or less
- Lecture 14 highlights
Lecture 15
- The Photoelectric Effect Wiki article
- Heinrich Hertz and KIT, Germany
- Translation of Einstein's 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect
- Lecture 15 highlights
Lecture 16
- The X-ray Tube
- X-ray Emission
- The Bragg diffraction condition
- X-ray Crystallography
- Lecture 16 highlights
Lecture 17
- Atomic Spectroscopy
- Critique of the Bohr model
- Lecture 17 highlights
Lecture 18
- Dynamic Periodic Table (Very useful!)
- Lecture 18 highlights
Lecture 19
- Davisson-Germer experiment on electron difraction
- Lecture 19 highlights
Lecture 20
- deBroglie's matter wave slides
- Lecture 20 highlights
Lecture 21
- Review of complex numbers and functions
- Prof. Jay Sau's slides on quantum mechanics
- Two-slit interference
- An experimental test of Born's rule that QM should be linear in the wavefunction
- Lecture 21 highlights
Lecture 22

Lecture 22 highlights

Lecture 23
- Infinite and finite square well potentials
- Semiconductor Nanowires hosting Majorana Fermions
- Lecture 23 highlights
Lecture 24
- Lecture 24 highlights
Lecture 25
- Graphical solution to the finite square well problem
- Lecture 25 highlights
Lecture 26
- Finite Square Well Graphical Solution
- Lecture 26 highlights
Lecture 27
- EXAM 2 Review
- EXAM 2 Part 1
Lecture 28
- EXAM 2 Part 2
- EXAM 2 Results
Lecture 29
- Solutions to the Schrodinger equation for the Harmonic Oscillator
- Schrodinger's trick for the harmonic oscillator
- Harmonic oscillator lecture slides
- Lecture 29 highlights
Lecture 30
- Harmonic oscillator wavefunction curvature slide
- Harmonic oscillator probability distribution slides
- Definition of concavity
- Lecture 30 highlights
Lecture 31
- Fourier transform of a Gaussian
- Uncertainty Principle slides
- Lecture 31 highlights
Lecture 32
- Wave Packet demo in Mathematica
- Gaussian Wave Packet Evolution demo in Mathematica
- Lecture 32 highlights
Lecture 33
- Lecture 33 highlights
Lecture 34
- Step Potential Scattering
- Tunneling slides
- Tunnel Diodes
- Lecture 34 highlights

THERMODYNAMICS

Lecture 35
- Lecture 35 highlights
- States of matter Phet demo
- Prof. James Kelly Review of Thermodynamics
Lecture 36
- The constant volume gas thermometer demonstration from UMD Physics Lec-Dem. Spreadsheet results
- Fluctuations and the thermodynamic limit
- Temperature sensor characteristics
- Lecture 36 highlights
Lecture 37
- Lecture 37 highlights
Lecture 38
- Lecture 38 highlights
Lecture 39
- The ideal Carnot cycle
- Lecture 39 highlights
Lecture 40
- The ideal Otto cycle model of an internal combustion engine
- Quantum heat engines also have an efficiency limited by the Carnot efficiency
- Lecture 40 highlights
Lecture 41
- Where are they? Can alien life be definitively identified using the laws of thermodynamics?
- Lecture 41 highlights
Lecture 42

Heat capacity jump at the superconductor to normal second order phase transition (see slides 13-15)
Phase Diagrams
Lennard-Jones Interatomic Potential
van der Waals isotherms
The van der Waals equation of state
YouTube video on supercritical fluids
Lecture 42 highlights

Lecture 43
- Summary of Modern Physics topics on the Physics GRE Exam
- Review of Phys 371
- Lecture 43 highlights
Lecture 44
- FINAL EXAM (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 12 December, 2019 in 1410)
- Final Exam first 4 pages
- Final Exam Results