Accelerated
Introductory Physics UN2802
Professor Norman Christ
This site provides information about this
course, offered in the Spring of 2022.
Link to the website for last spring's course: http://www.columbia.edu/~nhc1/UN2802_s21/
Link to the website for last semester's course: http://www.columbia.edu/~nhc1/UN2801_f21/
- Professor Christ:
- Email: [email protected]
- Office: 801 Pupin
- Telephone: 212 854 3307
- Office hours: Mondays 4:30 - 5:30 pm (in room 801, except 01/24/2022 will be online), Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm (online, 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: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman,
Leighton and Sands, Volume 3, Addison Wesley
- Recommended: A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition by J.S. Townsend, University Science Books (2012) ISBN 978-1-891389-78-8
- 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.
- Class time and place: 10:10-12:00, Tuesday and
Thursday, on-line for the first two weeks
- Recitation/problem sessions:
- Chance to see homework problems solved and to ask other questions
- Conducted by Kshitij Gupta [email protected]
- Wednesdays 4:10pm-5:00pm 222 Pupin and Fridays 11:10am-12:00m 414 Pupin
- Added Reading. (Further material that may be useful
for the course.)
- Syllabus and schedule. (Jan 21, 2022)
- On-line lecture notes. (Links to recordings of the lectures can be found under "Pages" on Courseworks.)
- Notes for quantum mechanics following the approach given in lecture.
- Written notes about topics covered in the course:
- Midterm:
- March 10, 2022, in class
- Cover E&M including AC circuits. Will not involve propagating (light wave) solutions of Maxwell's equations
- Closed book but single 8.5"x11" formula sheet allowed
- Try out the practice midterm
- Review session, Tuesday March 8, 2022 at 7:10 pm. Room 705 Pupin
- Final exam:
- May 12, 2022, 9:00 am in room 329 Pupin.
- Cover the full semester: E&M and quantum mechanics, up to but not including quantum computing.
- Closed book but single 8.5"x11" formula sheet allowed
- Reivew session, Thursday, May 5, 2022: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Room 420 Pupin.
- Try out the practice final.
- 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 May 2, 2022
Recent Changes |
| A practice final exam has been posted. (04/29/2022) |
| We will have office hours this Wednesday, 05/04/2022, at 5:30 pm, Zoom link on Courseworks (05/02/2022) |
| Don't forget our review session at 4:00 pm, this Thursday May 5, 2022 (05/02/2022) |
| More office hours: Mon.(5/09) 4:30-5:30 pm (room 801) and Wed.(5/11) 5:30-6:30 pm online, Zoom link on Courseworks (05/02/2022) |