Classical mechanics: Lagrangians (with and without constraints), Hamiltonians, generalized coordinates, Newton’s laws, momentum and energy conservation.

Mechanics

Quantum mehanical hydorgen atom: Bohr model, unperturbed Schrodinger model, Stark, relativistic, fine and Zeeman perturbations, interaction with radiation field and hyperfine transitions. Music: “Sister Christian” by Night Ranger and “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen.
Hydrogen

Not nearly enough about E&M, based on Prucell. Electrostatics, relation of E, B and relativity, waves and circuits. Music: “Now’s the Time” by Charlie Parker, “Ashokan Farewell” by Fiddle Fever.
E&M

Kinematics, impact parameter, differential and total cross section, scattering of electromagnetic waves, 1 dimensional quantum mechanical scattering, Born approximation and optical theorem. Music: “Alphabet Street” by Prince, “American Pie” by Don McLean.
Scattering

Finis! Closing thoughts and some exam strategies from Georg Polya. Music: “Operator” by the Grateful Dead and “Lobachevsky (Plagerize!)” by Tom Lehrer.
Strategy

Temperature scales from absolute zero, through Bose-Einstein condensates to the Big Bang. Music: “O Tannenbaum”, “Linus and Lucy” and “Christmas Time is Here” by Vince Guaraldi.
Temperature Scales

I’m sick, so this is the first of two podcasts this week. We go into the Hurry Up, two minute warning, now or never phase for the last third of the time beofre General I. Ten minutes on getting started so we’re all there on Jan. 28. Music: “There is a war”, Leonard Cohen.”Statistical Mechanics” will be posted on Thursday.
Hurry Up

This week: optics. Electromagnetic waves, wave tracing and geometric optics, lenses, f-stop, Fresnel and Frauenhofer differaction, interferometers. Music: “Edward Appleby (In memorium)” by Mark Mothersbaugh, “tcp d2 nnn english irdial” from the Conet Project, Bach, “Cello Suite #1 in G, 2. Allemande”
Optics

“Increasing, decreasing,Decreasing, Increasing,Who the hell caresWhat entropy does?”Classical thermodynamics, the mystery of what heat is, thermodynamic potentials, the four laws, Carnot cycle, ideal gases and polyatrops. Music: “In the Midnight” by Van Morrison and “Loquasto International Film Festival” by Mark Mothersbaugh.
Thermodynamics

Thing one, thing two and thing three: every field boils down to three basic ideas. Some thoughts on how to discover them and what to do with them.
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