29:30 Physics IV Syllabus

Instructor:

Prof. Mary Hall (Hallsie) Reno

Office:

515 VAN

Phone:

335-1920

Email:

reno@hepmips.physics.uiowa.edu

Office Hours:

Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-3, and whenever the office door is open.

Class Times:

Lectures will be given on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30-12:20 in 53 VAN. Lecture attendence, though not required, is strongly advised. Laboratory sections meet for three hours.

Textbook:

The main text is J. W. Rohlf's ``Modern Physics from alpha to Z0.'' In addition, there are several books on reserve in the Physics Library. These include three books, each with the title ``Modern Physics,'' by authors: R. Serway, H. Ohanian and P. Tipler. Shankar's ``Basic Training in Mathematics'' is also on reserve.

Drop/Add or Section Changes:

All changes in course registration, including adding, dropping and section changes, must be done in the Physics Department Main Office in 203 VAN. The Main Office is open from 8-12, 1-5. Teaching assistants may not sign any drop/add or section changes.

Homework Assignments:

Problems will be assigned from the textbooks and collected each week. Show all work in order to get full credit for the problems. Late homework is highly discouraged.

Laboratories:

A teaching assistant will run the laboratory sections and grade the lab reports. The writeups for the labs will be available in class before the labs.

Course Grading Policies:

Two midterm exams will be given during the lecture period. The final exam will not be comprehensive; it will cover the last third of the semester's material. All exams are closed book, however, you may bring a 3-by-5 notecard with equations and notes. You may bring a calculator to the exams. The course grade is derived from: MidtermI 20%, Midterm II 20%, Homework 20%, Labs 20%, Final 20%. Plus/minus grading will be used. Makeup exams will be scheduled for students that missed an exam because of illness, mandatory religious obligations, or other unavoidable circumstances or University activities. In the case of ilness, the student is advised to contact the professor before the exam is held if at all possible. Only in very exceptional cases will a makeup exam be arranged when prior arrangements have not been made.

Tutoring:

Free tutoring is available from teaching assistants in 254 VAN. The hours the tutoring room is open will be posted. Students are encouraged to work with classmates in solving the homework problems. Solutions will be available after the problem sets have been turned in. Solutions to the assigned problems will be kept in the Physics Department Library.

Complaints and Comments:

Complaints about the teaching assistant should be directed to me. The department chair Prof. G. Payne can be contacted in the Main Office 203 VAN. SPOT forms will be distributed late in the semester to assist me and the teaching assistant in evaluating the effectiveness of the course and laboratories.

Other:

I would like to hear from anyone who has a disability which may require some modification of seating, testing or other class requirements so that appropriate arrangements may be made.

World Wide Web URL http://www-hep.physics.uiowa.edu/~reno/p3/p4syl.html . I will attempt to keep the Web Page updated as we move through the semester.

Tentative Schedule of Topics

Week	Topic	Lab
Jan. 20	Survey of particles and forces No class Mon. Jan. 20	No Lab
Jan. 27	Distribution functions and kT	Probability and Statistics
Feb. 3	Planck's constant	The NaI Scintillation Spectrometer
Feb. 10	Special relativity	Multichannel Analyser
Feb. 17	Special relativity	Compton Effect
Feb. 24	Exam I Wed. Feb. 26 Ch. 1-4	No Lab
Mar. 3	Wave properties of particles, the uncertainty principle	Tests of Special Relativity
Mar. 10	Schrodinger equation	DeBroglie Relation
Mar. 17	Schrodinger equation	Millikan Oil Drop
Mar. 24	Spring Break	No Lab
Mar. 31	Hydrogen atom	Atomic Spectra
Apr. 7	Hydrogen atom	Mosley's Law
Apr. 14	Exam II, Mon. Apr. 14 Rutherford scattering	Frank-Hertz
Apr. 21	Beyond the hydrogen atom	Interactions of Electrons with Matter
Apr. 28	Quantum statistics	Interactions of Photons with Matter
May 5	To be determined	To be determined
May 12	Exam Week	Final Exam Wed. May 14, 9:45 AM

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