Physics
Associate Professor Charles Don
6 points * Four 1-hour lecture/problem classes and one 3-hour laboratory class per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisite: To have attempted PHS1011 * Corequisite: Recommended MAT1020 or MAT1920 * Prohibition: PHS1042
This subject is a continuation of PHS1011 and comprises four units. (1) Mechanics II: Rotational dynamics, gravitational fields and mechanical resonance. (2) Electronics and electrostatics: Diodes, power supplies and amplifiers, AC circuits, resonance, electric field and potential for various situations, capacitors and dielectrics. (3) Magnetism: The relation between currents, magnetic fields and induced emfs, inductance, introduction to Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves. (4) Quantum and atomic physics: Wave particle duality for matter and light, operators and quantisation, wave-functions and probabilities, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, hydrogen atom, infinite well, tunnelling. Laboratory work is linked to the lecture topics.
Assessment
Two examinations (total 4.5 hours): 70% * Laboratory work: 20% * Tests: 10%
Prescribed text
Halliday D and others Fundamentals of physics 4th edn (extended), Wiley, 1993