-Chapter 2, number 20
-Chapter 2, number 21
-Chapter 2, number 22
-Chapter 2, number 30
-Chapter 3, number 3
-Chapter 3, number 4
From Chapter 16, which can be downloaded for free at the publisher's website (click on Chapter 16 Cosmology on the menu on the left) read pages 1-6 and do the following end of the chapter problems
-Chapter 16, number 9
-Chapter 16, number 10
Solution
Assignment #4 due Monday October 1st
-Show that if
, Planck's formula for the average energy of an oscillator gives approximately 
.-Chapter3, number 11
-Chapter3, number 21
-Chapter3, number 27
-Chapter3, number 36
-Chapter3, number 39
Hint: Figure out how many molecules are in each cube, as shown in figure P3.39, and remember each cube shares ions with neighboring cubes. That will help you figure out how many NaCl ions per unit volume.
-Chapter3, number 42
Solution
Assignment #5 (I will not collect this assignment-keep it and use it to prepare for the exam)
-Chapter 4, number 2
-Chapter 4, number 3
-Chapter 4, number 6
-Chapter 4, number 8
-Chapter 4, number 25
-Chapter 4, number 32
-Chapter 4, number 36
-Chapter 4, number 44
Solution
Assignment #6 due October 22
-Chapter 5, number 5
-Chapter 5, number 14
-Suppose you add the two waves:
(a)What is the speed of the envelope?
(b)Is the phase velocity the same as the velocity of the envelope? Why or why not?
-Chapter 5, number 15 (hint: review page 169)
-Chapter 5, number 17
-The speed of transverse waves on a stretched string is 200 m/s. If the string is 5m long, find the frequencies of the fundamental and the second and third harmonic and draw each of these standing waves labeling the nodes and the antinodes.
Solution
Assignment #7 due October 29
-do the fourier tutorial. You will need to download the excel files SqWave.xls and Gaussian.xls
- Chapter 5, #20
- Chapter 5, #24
- Chapter 5 #28
- Chapter 5, #33
- Chapter 6, #1
- Chapter 6, #3
Solution
Assignment #8 due November 5
- Chapter 6, #2
- Chapter 6, #11
- Chapter 6, #18
- Chapter 6, #20
- Chapter 6, #21
- Chapter 6, #24
Solutions
Assignment #9 due November 12
-do the probability tutorial. The password "NewModel" will unlock the document.
- Chapter 6, #32
- Chapter 6, #33
- Chapter 6, #34
- Chapter 6, #35
- Chapter 7, #2
- Chapter 7, #11
Solution
Probability tutorial solution
Assignment #10 will not be collected, but do it to prepare for the exam
-Chapter 7 #14
-Chapter 7 #17
-Download the quantum tunneling tutorial and do it. The password "NewModel" will unlock the document. The Quantum tunnelinq software referred to in the document can be found here. It requires that you install shockwave (which is free to install).
Solution Note: you should really try the homework on your own before looking at the solutions.
Assignment #11 due Monday December 3
-Chapter 8 #3
-Chapter 8 #12
-Chapter 8 #13
-Chapter 8 #18
-Chapter 8 #19
-Chapter 8 #20
-Chapter 8 #24
-Chapter 8 #25
Solution
Assignment #12 This assignment will not be collected but you won't do well on the final unless you do it.
-Download this bubble chamber photo and answer the included questions.
-Chapter 15 #5
-Chapter 15 #8
-Chapter 15 #9
-Chapter 15 #16
-Chapter 15 #21
-Chapter 15 #22
-Chapter 15 #23
-Chapter 15 #24
solution to bubble chamber question
solution to problems from chapter 15