PHY 102 Homework Assignments

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Homework Assignments:

Doing and thinking about physics is important in learning the material. You should do all multiple choice and as many of the problems a possible. The problems below will be collected and graded. Homework should be neat, fully worked out in detail, in order and stapled. Answers to Even-numbered problems.

 

HW # Ch Problems Due
1 18 2 6 9 12 16 23 25 29 33 38 421/12
2 191 2 5 12 14 19 27 30 32 37 391/21
3 202 3 7 10 14 21 24 26 30 31 33 1/26
4 2039 43 48 55 58 63 67 73 76  86 87 95 96  2/2
5 212 5 10 12 15 26 29 35 37 41 47 48 49 542/16
6 222 3 12 14 17 21 23 35 39 44 49 51 54 56 2/25
7 232 3 8 13 15 18 23 26 323/11
8 243 8 10 11 16 19 21 29 34 363/18
9 251 2 6 10 11 12 14 17 20 21 3/28
  261 2 9 11 13 20  
10 2626 32 34 39 41 42 44 45 49 59 61 67 69 4/4
11 272 5 11 12 19 21 28 29 38 404/11
12 281 2 4 11 13 14 18 25 27 304/20
13 293 4 7 13 16 23 25 28 31 324/28

THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
MORE PROBLEMS TO COME!

BONUS REPORTS

These will be reports which are typed with double-spacing and 12 pt font. You will be expected to use correct English grammar and punctuation. Do not just list the answers, but put everything into proper sentence and paragraph form. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE text from the Internet.  You should show that you have read and digested the material. Do not forget to include references to sources you used.

Grades will be based upon how much you seemed to have learned and communicated to the instructor. One page obviously does not count very much. Typically, you can receive up to 10 points (sometimes more), though the average is more around 5-6 points. This can be useful in enhancing your homework average and will be useful in seeing some recent physics beyond the text material.

Bonus 1 - Feb 7 -  NMR and MRI

  • What is NMR?

    • Who were the discoverers?

    • Why is it important?

    • What is the physics?

    • What are some of the interesting applications?

  • What is MRI?

    • Who were the discoverers?

    • Why is it important?

    • What is the physics?

    • What are some of the interesting applications?

  • Are these topics connected? Explain.

  • What did you find useful/interesting about these techniques?

Bonus 2 - Mar 21 -  Albert Einstein

  • This year has been designated the World Year of Physics because of several papers Einstein wrote in 1905. What did Einstein work on a hundred years ago? 

  • What was his role in/opinion of the Manhattan Project?

  • What is general relativity? Describe some of the impacts of the Einstein's introduction of general relativity on today's perception of the universe.

  • Describe the effect his work had on some aspect of your field of study.

  • Read on some aspects of his life and report on what you found interesting and something you did not know about him.


Person of the Century

Some possibly interesting sites (though I do not expect you to just copy and paste information from the Internet!): 

 

Bonus 3 - Apr 18 -  Modern Physics Terms

Here is a list of terms, which have made their appearance over the last century. You may either define as many of them as possible or research and discuss only a few but in much greater depth.  As usual, be careful to use correct grammar and composition (i.e., paragraphs, sentence structure, etc.). Be sure to list any references used. Your grade will not necessarily be determined by the number of terms you have defined, but on the correctness and depth of your answers. 

Quark Soliton Optical Fiber
Chaos Strange Attractor Superconductor
Laser Maser Plasma
Baryon Lepton Quantum Teleportation
Pulsar Quasar Bownian Motion
White Dwarf Shock Waves Super Helium
Dark Matter Liquid Crystals Black Hole
Rayleigh Scattering Weak Interaction QCD
Cold Fusion Physics and GPS Semiconductor
GUTS Inflation Theory String Theory
Quantum Computation Holography Hawking Radiation
Tokamak Reactor Meissner Effect Kerr Effect
CAT Scan Photovoltaics LIGOS - Gravitational Waves

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E-Mail: Dr. Russell Herman Last Updated: April 20, 2005