Class 11 Physics Practical Topics

[Dion Worles]

Thisgreat adventure begins in the first year of the course, which has several distinct aims. First, it aims to bridge the gap between school and university level physics. Second, it aims to consolidate school physics by providing a much more logical and analytical framework for classical physics, which will be essential for all years of the course. Third, it includes new themes such as special relativity and quantum physics, which foreshadow key topics to be developed in the subsequent years of the course. Fourth, the individual lecture courses aim to broaden your perspective, so that you can begin to appreciate the great flexibility and generality of the laws of physics and their application, from the most theoretical applications, such as the behaviour of matter close to black holes, to the most practical of everyday problems, such as the damping of oscillating systems.

Students attend a physics practical for one afternoon once every two weeks. The primary aim of the class is the development of experimental skills, which are important to all professional physicists. The second aim of the practical session is to illustrate ideas and concepts in physics. Most of the experiments are concerned with topics covered in the Part IA Physics lecture course.

This is the list of 10 required practicals that you must include on the 4psow. The reason you have to do these is that there will be a question on paper 3 that related to one of them. There are many ways of doing these experiments so the question will have to be on general experimental techniques rather than the specifics.

Custom made ball dropping apparatus (e.g. PASCO) (I only have 2 so do this as part of a circus of experiments)

Electric kettle and thermometer plus top pan balance (class set, I actually use a temp. sensor)

Datalogger (e.g. Vernier or PASCO) + pressure sensor and attachments (class set, although the measurements are very quick so students could rotate around one set)

Drinking straws (Audacity software)

Glass block and ray lamp (or use my photos and onscreen protractor) (I only have one block so my students used my ready made photos)

Laser plus Double slits (e.g PASCO) (I have 6 lasers but only two sets of slits)

Pencil and paper plus multimeter (class set)

Multimeter, Nichrome wire and battery plus holder (class set)

Paul falstads circuit simulation

Measuring cylinder and beer plus loggerPro video analysis software or pencil and paper. (I borrow the cylinder from Chem. lab many video the same one, saves wasting too much beer)

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Prereq.: ASTR 1101, 1102, and MATH 1552. 1 hr. lecture; 6 hrs. lab. Modern astronomical observations and reductions; the telescope, astronomical photography, spectroscopic and photoelectric observations and reductions.

Matter and energy; structure of the atom and nucleus; radioactivity; types of radiation; radiation interactions; dose and biological effects; radiation detection and safety; background radiation; applications of nuclear science in medicine, cancer therapy, and imaging.

Prereq.: MEDP 4331 or consent of instructor. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Effects of ionizing radiation on cellular, molecular, and organ system levels of biological organization; study of x-rays, gamma rays, accelerator beams, and neutrons in interaction with living systems; cohesive treatment of radiation biophysics with applications in medical physics and radiation oncology.

Prereq.: MEDP 4331. Fundamental physical principles, operation of delivery equipment, treatment planning principles, methods of dose calculations, determination of irradiation time from dose prescription, dose measurements, and quality assurance for external beam therapy (photon and electrons) and internal brachytherapy.

Prereq.: MEDP 4331, MEDP 7537. Calculation of source term, geometric transformations, and attenuating factors associated with photon, neutron and charged particle shielding; calculation of dose and dose equivalents; current governmental regulations and professional recommendations for shielding; shielding design for medical radiation facilities.

Prereq.: MEDP 7537 or consent of instructor, CSC 2262 or equivalent experience in computer programming. Also offered as PHYS 7538. Radiation transport simulation by the Monte Carlo method; phase-space tracking; dose response estimators; biasing methods; integral form of the Boltzmann equation; condensed-history method for charged particles; neutron, photon, and electron transport calculations for shielding and medical physics applications.

Prereq.: PHSC 1001. Credit will not be given for both this course and any other college-level astronomy course. Second half of a two-semester survey course in the physical sciences; topics in the second semester are taken primarly from the fields of astronomy, chemistry, and geology.

Prerequisites All prerequisites in physics courses should be rigidly observed.

Corequisites A student may not continue in a course after dropping a corequisite course prior to the last day of the midsemester examination period.

Prereq.: MATH 1021 or an ACT math score of at least 25. Primarily for students in liberal arts and education. Historical evolution and underlying philosophy of principles of physics; provides appreciation of physics; does not develop technical skill.

Prereq.: PHYS 2203 or 4141. Nuclear and particle properties, abundance and stability of nuclei, strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, nuclear instrumentation, particle accelerators and detectors, nuclear reactions, and particle and nuclear astrophysics.

Prereq.: consent of instructor and department chair. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit. Recommended for students who will take PHYS 4399; Research project conducted under supervision of individually selected faculty member.

Prereq.: PHYS 7225 and 7242. PHYS 7363 is prerequisite for 7364. Application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to condensed matter; lattice vibrations, energy bands in crystals, transport properties, collective excitations, ferromagnetism and superconductivity; theory of Fermi and Bose quantum fluids, phase transitions, and critical phenomena.

Prereq.: PHYS 7211. PHYS 7411 is prerequisite for PHYS 7412. Basic numerical techniques for solution of mathematical equations, including coupled linear algebraic and differential equations, and numerical simulation techniques; emphasis on application to physical problems.

Prereq.: PHYS 7242. Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit. Diagrammatic techniques, thermal Green's functions, transport theory, Fermi liquids, collective excitations, phase transitions.

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