Accelerated Introductory Physics UN2802

Professor Norman Christ

This site provides information about this course, offered in the Spring of 2021.

• Professor Christ:
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Office:  801 Pupin
  • Telephone:  212 854 3307
  • Office hours: Mondays 9:10 am, Friday 3:10 pm (see Courseworks for Zoom link)
• Text books:
  • Required: Electricity and Magnetism, Edward M. Purcell,  2nd Edition, available under Files on Courseworks
  • Required: An Introductio to Quiantum Physics, French and Taylor, Norton (1978) ISBN 9780393090154
  • Recommended: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman, Leighton and Sands, Volume 2, Addison Wesley
  • Recommended: Linear Algebra, fourth edition, Lipschutz and Lipson, ISBN 978-0-07-154352-1, Schaum's Outlines, McGraw Hill.
  • Recommended: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, ISBN-13: 978-1107002173, Nielsen and Chuang, Cambridge
• Numerical solutions
  • Numerical solutions will be pursued to extend our understanding and explore problems without analytic solutions.
  • We will use the Python language. Instructions, references and sample solutions will be located at: PythonPage.
• Assignments These should be submitted to Courseworks: Go to "Assignments" and chose the proper problem set and click submit. You will then be asked for the location of a file to upload. A pdf file would be preferred. The two students grading the problem sets are Supantho Rakshit ([email protected]) and Apoorv Jindal ([email protected])
• Class time and place: 10:10-12:00, Tuesday and Thursday, on-line
• Recitation/problem sessions:
  • Chance to see homework problems solved and to ask other questions
• Conducted by Ahmed Sheta ([email protected])
• Wednesday 6:10-7:00 pm, Friday 10:10-11:00 am (see Courseworks for Zoom link)
• Added Reading.  (Further material that may be useful for the course.)
• Syllabus and schedule.
• On-line lecture notes. (Links to recordings of the lectures can be found under "Pages" on Courseworks.)
• Written notes about topics covered in the course:
  • Lorentz force
  • Quantum mechanics
• Midterm Exam:
  • Try the practice midterm exam.
  • A review session, at 3:10 pm on Tuesday (the link can be found on Courseworks) will discuss practice exam.
  • All material up to but not including mutual and self-induction or AC circuit theory will be covered.
  • The exam is open book but you must agree to work without assistence from others.
  • The exam will be posted here at 1:00 pm on Thursday, 02/25/2021 and must be uploaded to Courseworks before 1:00 pm EST on Saturday, 02/27/2021.
  • The exam should take about 2 hours to complete. Do not leave it to the last minute!

• Final Exam:
  • Try the practice final exam.
  • We will have a Zoom review session on Monday April 19 beginning at 1:10 pm. Please find the link of Courseworks.
  • All material up to but not including quantum computing will be covered.
  • The exam is open book but you must agree to work without assistence from others.
  • The exam will be posted here at 12:00 pm on Tuersday, 04/20/2021 and must be uploaded to Courseworks before 1:00 pm EDT on Friday, 04/23/2021.
  • The exam should take about 4 hours to complete. Do not leave it to the last minute!

• Homework: Reading and home assignments will be posted on this site on Thursdays.  Homework will consist of 8-10 problems that should be uploaded to Courseworks on the following Thursday (seven days later).
• Grades: Grades will be determined from a weighted average of the homework (20%), midterm exam (30%) and final exam (50%).
• Help Room.  Help with homework and general questions is available in the Physics Help Room, format and hours to be determined.
• Academic integrity

This site last modified April 21, 2021