PHYSICS 342
MODERN PHYSICS
SPRING 2000
Instructor:
Professor T.E. Clark
Office:
Room 254, Physics Building
Office Phone: 49-43038
Office Hours: Q 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Class Hours: M,W, F 2:30-3:20
p.m.
Class
Room: Room 223, Physics Building
Text:
Modern Physics (Second Edition) by
Kenneth Krane
Homework:
Specific reading assignments will be given supplementing the lecture material
covered in class.
Homework problems will be assigned regularly.
Problem solving is an essential as well as an integral part of this course and your
homework grades will count approximately 20% toward your course grade. Students may discuss the problems with each other
in a general way but should not do the homework as a group effort. No carbon copy homework sets are acceptable. Further, the problem solutions should be clearly
and neatly written on one side only of standard size paper.
Your fellow students should be able to read, follow and understand the solutions. The quality of the presentation counts toward the
grade. The homework format has your name,
PHYS 342, and the due date in the upper right hand corner of the first page and your name
and PHYS 342 on each following page; the problem set number on the first page and each
page and problem numbered.
Exams & Grades: There will be two in class exams during the
semester and a
comprehensive final exam at the end of
the semester.
Your course grade will be based on the scores for the exams and homework sets, with the
approximate
weights:
Homework
20%
Two exams
40% (20% each)
Final exam
40%
The final exam
will be scheduled during the week beginning 1 May 2000.
References:
Besides our textbook, the following books will be on reserve in the Physics
Library.
A)
General Physics Texts
1. Giancoli: Physics: Principles with Applications
2. Halliday, Resnick, Krane: Physics Volumes One and Two (Extended Version)
3. Halliday, Resnick, Walker: Fundamentals of Physics Fifth Edition, Parts 1-4
4. Ohanian:
Physics
5. Sears and Zemansky and Young: University Physics
6. Serway: Physics for Scientists and Engineers
7. Tipler: Physics
for Scientists and Engineers
8. Young: University Physics
B)
Modern Physics Texts
1. Beiser: Concepts of Modern Physics
2. Eisberg: Fundamentals of Modern
Physics
3. Krane: Modern Physics (Second
Edition)
4. Leighton: Principles of Modern
Physics
5. Sandin: Essentials of Modern Physics
6. Thornton and Rex: Modern Physics for
Scientists and Engineers
7. Tipler: Modern Physics
8. Weidner and Sells: Modern Physics
C)
Problems and Solutions
1. Gautreau
and Savin: Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics
2. Halpern: 3000 Solved Problems in Physics
3. Rees: Physics by Example: 200 Problems and Solutions
4. Wells: Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Physics and
Engineering