HomeWork 10       

Physics 131, Fall 2012
Profs. W. Losert & E. F. Redish

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Homework Assignment 10
(Due Friday, 11/30/12)

1. Part to be done on paper and handed in at the beginning of lecture on the due date:

One long problems  They should be prepared carefully and neatly on paper (preferably on a computer and printed out). Preparing this should be like writing up a report. It will be graded in part on the quality of your presentation.

Please be certain to put your name is on every page and do NOT CONNECT THE PAGES with staples, clips, tape, or dogears. Connecting them may result in you homework being damaged or destroyed.

  1. The water-coat potential (5 pts)

2. Part to be done in the MP environment: due at the beginning of lecture on Friday:

Four problems from our collection this week.  You only get one attempt at them. You should work them out fully before attempting to enter them. (They are given in the list below for your convenience.)

1. Bound states (3 pts)

2. Going to a deeper well (2 pts)

3. The bulldog on the skateboard (3 pts)

3. The train, the hill, and the bumper (2 pts)

This page prepared by

Edward F. Redish
and Wolfgang Losert
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
redish@physics.umd.edu
wlosert@umd.edu

Last revision 25. November, 2012.