Phys 222 Su09




	Phys 222 Su09

Summer 2009

Daily 12:00-1:50 p.m., C247 ESC

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Instructor

Dallin S. Durfee	N245 ESC
Office Hours in Underground Lab	422-1497
MWF 2:00-3:00 p.m.	dallin_durfee@byu.edu

Teaching Assistants

James Archibald

Class ID Number (CID)

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iClickers

You need to go to http://gardner.byu.edu/222su/quizid.html and register your remote in order to get credit for quizzes.

Class Handouts

Class handouts are in adobe acrobat (.pdf) or web (.html) format. If you do not have an adobe acrobat reader, you can get the official adobe reader for free, or for an even better reader try this link. Web format documents will load faster, but acrobat files are better for printing.

Course Syllabus: (html), (pdf)

Homework

Updated Class Schedule: (pdf)

Labs

Handout on Quantum Reflection

Practice Exam #1

Summary of Atomic Quantum Numbers

Term Paper Information

Information on the term paper can be found here.

Slides from Class

Some of the slides I show in class can be found here.

Homework and Exam Solutions

Homework and exam solutions will be posted on the class blackboard page available through route y.

Underground Lab

I will hold office hours in the study area of the underground lab. It is also a great place to do study groups or to just show up to do your homework, because you are likely to find other class members to help you there. Also, it's right by my research lab, where you are most likely to find me during the day.

The door to the underground lab is in the middle of the north-most hallway on the ground floor of the ESC. If you walk into the building through the door by the college advisement center, turn left, and walk until there is a small stairway to the right, the door right before you get to the stairway is the entrance to the underground lab. Open the door, and walk down many stairs. At the very bottom is the study area.

Useful Links

Physics Reference:

These links take you to online physics texts and notes. If you don't understand something in the book or in a lecture, or if you want to explore a topic in more depth, you may find these links useful.

Frequently Used Constants from NIST

HyperPhysics

News in Physics:

AIP's Physics News Update

Physics Today

Physical Review Focus

Cool Free Software --- useful for learning and for term projects

My Java Applets and Applications
Feel free to play with the programs that you use for the walk-in-labs at any time. You can learn a lot from them.

LaTeX is the format that most physics journals use. It is available for almost any operating system you might use. The most common version for windows can be found at http://miktex.org/. The free program LyX (http://www.lyx.org/ ) gives you a nice front end to LaTeX (I use it to generate most of the documents for this course including the homework). I recommend that you learn basic LaTeX first, and then try out LyX.

If you want to convert figures into eps to use in a LaTeX document, or if you want to convert ps to pdf, etc., check out http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/.

If you want a pdf reader that is smaller, faster, sleeker and more stable than acrobat reader, go to http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/. Another good choice for a solid but stable pdf reader is http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/.

Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ if you want a free program that is a lot like Matlab. If you run Linux, try out the graphical frontend called QTOctave.