Modern Physics -- week of February 22, 1999

Modern Physics

the week of February 22 - 26

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this week's readings

    Monday, Feb 22            article to be picked up in black box,
                                            "The Asymmetry between Matter and Anitmatter"
                                            from Scientific American, October 1998

violations of P symmetry and CP symmetry

    Tuesday, Feb 23             essay on General Relativity, pp 50 - 54
                                            read about evidence for the neutrino having rest mass
                                        pick up article in black box

   Thursday, Feb 25             read through section 2.1 about the behavior of light
                                        read one of the introductory textbooks (Cutnell & Johnson,
                                            Resnick & Halliday, Zitzewitz) about the history of our
                                            our understanding of light; see below

Friday, Feb 26 read section 2(7) on gravitational effects on light

this week's assignments

Monday, Feb 22 bring to class: quark analysis of octet on figure 15-9

    Tuesday, Feb 23            bring to class: formula for gravitational deflection of light to class,
                                            including table of matching quantities
                                            (coulomb vs gravitational) and calculation of bending angle near sun

    Thursday, Feb 25 bring to class a list of important discoveries about various light phenomena;
                                         when they were discovered; by whom; whether they indicated evidence
                                        for light being a wave or a particle

Friday, Feb 26

links of the week