Physics 1C Summer 2001: Lectures and WWW links
Lecture notes will be posted in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, usually on
Wednesday evening. They are posted as a convenience only, not
as a substitute for your own notes! Unfortunately, some of the files may
be large (~1 Mbyte) and may take several minutes to download over slow
connections.
Week 1: Electromagnetics waves: scattering, reflection, refraction
- Lecture 1 - Introduction, electromagnetic waves
- Lecture 2 - The electromagnetic spectrum, scattering in the atmosphere, wavelets.
- Lecture 3 - Scattering in dense media: reflection and refraction.
- Lecture 4 - Total internal reflection, color.
Week 2: Geometrical Optics
Week 3: Physical Optics
- Lecture 9 - Polarization
- Lecture 10 - Birefringence, Interference (Young's slits, thin films)
- Lecture 11 - Diffraction: single apertures, gratings
- Lecture 12 - Thermal radiation
- WWW resources:
-
Blackbody
Radiation Laws - excellent summary of the basics we covered in lectures,
with graphics, and derivations of Stefan's Law and Wien's Law. (Don't bother
with the fancy VRML model).
Blackbody Java tool. If you can get this to work on your browser, you may be able to plot the Blackbody Radiance as a function of wavelength for a
variety of temperatures, and look at the "color" of the resulting
spectrum.
Or, try this
version from the University of Kentucky (select "NORM=no" to see how
total power changes as temperature4).
The most precise blackbody in nature is the whole universe, filled with
blackbody radiation at a temperature of 2.7 K. See how well the curve fits
the data in this brief Cosmology Tutorial
by Ned Wright at UCLA.
- Lecture 13 - BB radiation summary, photoelectric effect, bremsstrahlung.
- Lecture 14 - Rutherford scattering, Rutherford/Bohr atomic structure.
- Lecture 15 - Energy levels, X-ray production
- Lecture 16 - Bragg diffraction, matter waves.
Week 5: Quantum Mechanics
- Lecture 17 - Quantum Mechanics, Uncertainty Principle.
Physics 1C
Philip Blanco email: pblanco@ucsd.edu