Instructor - Josh Erlich
Small Hall, Room 223
Office Phone: 757-221-3763
Email: erlich@physics.wm.edu
Grader - Christopher Carlin, crcarlin@wm.edu
Course website:  http://physics.wm.edu/~erlich/201F09/
Text:  J.R. Taylor, C.D. Zafiratos and M.A. Dubson, Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition
Course requirements and grade:
Problem Sets:
Problem sets will generally be due on Fridays and returned the following
Friday. Questions about the grading should first be addressed to the grader.
After speaking with the grader if you feel that a grading issue was not
adequately addressed, then see me.
Problem Set 1,
due Friday, Sept 11. Solutions.
Problem Set 2,
due Friday, Sept 18. Solutions.
Problem Set 3,
due Friday, Sept 25. Solutions.
Problem Set 4,
due Friday, October 2. Solutions.
Problem Set 5,
due Friday, October 9. Solutions.
Problem Set 6,
due Friday, October 16. Solutions.
Problem Set 7,
due Friday, October 23. Solutions.
Problem Set 8,
due Friday, October 30. Solutions.
Problem Set 9,
due Friday, November 6, Solutions.
Problem Set 10,
due Friday, November 13, Solutions.
Problem Set 11,
due Friday, November 20. Solutions.
Problem Set 12,
due Wednesday, December 2. Solutions.
Exams:
Exam 1 Cover Page
Sample Exam 1 (from Fall, 2007)
Sample Exam 2 (from Fall, 2008) -- only
problems 1,4,6 are relevant for this year's Exam 2.
Sample Final Exam (from Fall, 2008)
Supplementary Material:
A collection of historic physics papers is available here and here.
Evan Pierce's "Lock and Key Paradox" paper from the American Journal of Physics, a fun journal that you have online access to through the College network here. To access journals from outside the network, use Google Scholar and search for William and Mary in Scholar Preferences.
A pdf file of the 1923 English
translation of Einstein's "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper," Annalen der
Physik, 17:891, 1905 was prepared by John Walker and is available at
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/index.html.
The German version is available
here.
English translation of Einstein's E=mc^2 paper, prepared by John Walker.
Notes on the invariant interval and causality.
Schrodinger's 1926 paper describing the Schrodinger equation
Feynman lectures, courtesy of Bill Gates!