PHYS 211E - Classical and Modern Physics

Course Information

• Instructor: Marty Ligare
• Office: Olin 167
• Phone: 577-1213
• email: mligare@bucknell.edu
• Office Hours: M 11-1, W 11-12, R 4-5, F 11-12, 1-2
• Syllabus
• Class Schedule with Problem Assignments
  • Unit 1
  • Unit 2
  • Unit 3
  • Unit 4

Hand-In Solutions

• Hand-In Set #1, due Monday September 1
• Hand-In Set #2, due Monday September 8
• Hand-In Set #3, due Monday September 15
• Hand-In Set #4, due Monday September 22
• Hand-In Set #5, due Monday October 6
• Hand-In Set #6, due Wednesday October 15
• Hand-In Set #7, due Friday October 24
• Hand-In Set #8, due Monday November 3
• Hand-In Set #9, due Monday November 10
• Hand-In Set #10, due Monday November 17
• Hand-In Set #11, due Thursday November 20
• Hand-In Set #12, due Monday December 8

Group Exercise Solutions

• Unit I: Fight the Ticket? Solution A| Solution B
• Unit II: How Much Matter-Antimatter Fuel? Solution
• Unit III: Save the Slugs! Solution

Materials from Class

• Relativistic Energy Slides (10/8)
• Rotational/Translational Analogs (10/15)
• Spacetime Worksheet (10/24) blank | Solution
• Example of Cyclic Thermodynamic Process (11/10)
• Entropy/Heat Flow Example

Computer Modeling Materials

• Python Programming Language -- Official Website
• VPython Module Website (downloads, documentation, tutorials, etc.)
• Introduction to Python/VPython (August 28) and followup
• Bouncing Ball Exercise (September 4) and followup with assignment
• Mass on Spring Exercise, revised version, (September 11)
• Physics of a Mass on a Spring (September 18)
• Second Mass on a Spring Assignment (October 16)
• Astronomical Orbits (October 16)
• Orbit Assignmment

Exams

• Exam 1 w/solutions
• Exam 2 w/solutions
• Exam 3 w/ solutions

Old Exams

• 2007 PHYS 211 Test 1: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211E Test 1 (Ignore #6): blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211 Test 2: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211E Test 2: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211 Test 3: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211E Test 2: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211 Final: blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211 Lab Final: What to Know | blank copy | with solutions
• 2007 PHYS 211E Final: blank copy | with solutions

Physics Links

• Bucknell Physics & Astronomy
• Physical Review Focus - Selections from the journals Physical Review and Physical Review Letters explained for the physics community at large.
• Physics Central - An American Physical Society website maintained to "answer you questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news [and] describe the latest research and the people who are doing it."
• Physics News Update - This "is a digest of physics news items arising from physics meetings, physics journals, newspapers and magazines, and other news sources."
• Physics - Spotlighting exceptional research in American Physical Society journals.
• What's New by Bob Park Comments by University of Maryland physicist Bob Park on public policy decisions relating to physics and science.