- Instructor: Prof Herman Verlinde ( Jadwin 405, phone: 258-5585, e-mail: verlinde@princeton.edu)
- AI: Fethi Razamanoglu, (Jadwin 4yy, phone: 258 5zzz, e-mail: framazan@princeton.edu)
- AI: Huajie (Charles) Cao (Jadwin 225, phone: 258 4392, e-mail: huajiec@princeton.edu)
- Lectures: 11am to 12:20 Tue and Thu, Jadwin A07.
- Problem sessions: 7pm to 9:30pm on Tue, Jadwin 111.
- Office hours: HV: Wed 2pm to 3:30pm, Jadwin 405, HC: Thu: 1:30pm-3:00pm, Jadwin 225, FR: Thu 3:00pm to 4:30pm, Jadwin 4yy
- Weekly problem sets will be due on Thu at 4:30 pm in Fethi's mailbox in Jadwin.
- Main Textbook: Classical dynamics of particles and systems, 5th edition, by Thornton and Marion.
- Hand Outs: these will take the form of pdf-files posted on this web page and on Blackboard.
- Midterm exam: 10/27/11 at 11am, in-class.
- Final exam: Date to be determined, January 2012.
- Final grade: based on 40% final exam, 20% midterm, 35% problem sets, 5% class participation.
- a) A Brief History of Light
- b) A Bit of Special Relativity
- c) Extremization Principles
- d) Lagrangian Mechanics
- e) Symmetries & Conservation Laws
- f) Scattering_
- g) Harmonic Oscillations
- h) Waves & Strings
- i) Planck's Formula
- j) Single Photon Interference
- k) Quantum Mechanics
Physics 207
Welcome to PHY 207! This course will cover a range of topics bridging between freshman physics and quantum mechanics. Perhaps the most important of these are lagrangian mechanics and wave phenomena, but the course will also include some special relativity and a bit of statistical mechanics.