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Working Content for Second semester - 132

 132 Class homepage

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• Homework Assignments
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Working content for first semester - 131

Second semester - 132: Initial Thoughts

Outline of Topics

The Micro to Macro Connection

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

• Energy and the first law

• Organizing the idea of energy  
• Enthalpy
• Thermodynamic equilibrium and equipartition  

• Entropy and the second law

• Why entropy is logarithmic
• Consequences of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• A way to think about entropy -- sharing
• Entropy and heat flow

• Free energy

• Motivating the Gibbs free energy  
• Gibbs free energy

• The Micro and the Macro

• Boltzmann distribution
• Boltzmann distribution and Gibbs free energy

Electricity

• Fields

• The concept of field
• The Electric field
• Making sense of the idea of field
• The electric potential
• Motivating simple electric models
• A simple electric model: a line charge
• Line charge integral (technical)
• A simple electric model: a sheet of charge 
• A simple electric model: a sphere of charge

• Electricity in Matter

• Screening of electrical interactions in salt solution
• Debye length 
• Nernst potential

• Capacitance

• Two parallel plates
• The capacitor
  

   

• Electric Currents

• Quantifying electric current
• Resistive electric flow: Ohm's law
• Ways to think about current: A toolbox of models
• Kirchhoff's principles
• Applying Kirchhoff: Examples
• Electrical energy and power

Oscillations and Waves

Harmonic Oscillation

• Mass on a spring
• Hanging mass on a spring
• The pendulum
• Damped oscillators
• Damped oscillators - the math (technical)
• Driven oscillators: resonance
• Non-linear oscillators -- attractors and chaos
• Quantum oscillators -- discrete states

Waves in 1D

• Waves on an elastic string
• Wave pulses
• Propagating a wave pulse - the math
• Wave speed
• Superposition of waves in 1D
• Beats
• Standing waves
• Sinusoidal waves
• Summing different wavelengths -- spectral analysis

Sound waves

• The nature of sound
• Analyzing sounds
• Interference
• Doppler effect
• The ear
  

Light

• Three models of light 
• The ray model 
• Basic principles of the ray model
• Flat mirrors
• Curved mirrors 
• Curved mirror equations
• Lenses
• Lens equations
• The eye
• Optical instruments 
• The wave model
• Electromagnetic radiation and Maxwell's rainbow
• Polarization
• Huygens' principle and the wave model
• The math of Huygens' principle
• Huygens and the basic results of the ray model (technical) ***
• Arago's bright spot ***
• Two-slit interference
• The diffraction grating *** (done in UP) 
• Diffraction
• Interference from two wide slits  
• Resolution and the Rayleigh criteria (done in UP)
• Bragg scattering ***
• The photon model 
• Basic principles of the photon model
• Reconciling the wave and photon model - sort of
• Color and light

• Interaction of light with matter
• Visual implications
• Black-body radiation
• The photoelectric effect

The wave model of matter

• Quantum oscillators -- discrete states
• Quantum string
• Fluorescence