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- | ====== 普通物理A一(General Physics A (I)) ====== | + | |
- | ===== Instructor ===== | ||
- | * Prof. Pochung Chen | ||
- | * R521, Physics building | ||
- | * pcchen {at} phys {dot} nthu {dot} edu {dot} tw | ||
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- | ===== Teaching Assistant ===== | ||
- | * TBA | ||
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- | ===== Time ===== | ||
- | * T3T4R3R4 | ||
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- | ===== Room ===== | ||
- | * CHEM II化二 223 | ||
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- | ===== Grade ===== | ||
- | * TBA | ||
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- | ===== Textbooks ===== | ||
- | * Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway and Jewett) | ||
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- | ===== Notes ===== | ||
- | * This course follows a 16-week syllabus with extra learning materials available online. | ||
- | * AI tools (like ChatGPT) are allowed with necessary explanations. | ||
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- | ===== Weekly schedule ===== | ||
- | * Week 1 | ||
- | * 9/12/2023 | ||
- | * 9/14/2023 | ||
- | * Week 2 | ||
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- | Course introduction | ||
- | What is time? | ||
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- | Week 2 | ||
- | Lorentz transformation | ||
- | How to describe a dynamical system? | ||
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- | Week 3 | ||
- | Newton' | ||
- | 教師節 | ||
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- | Week 4 | ||
- | Do forces always appear in pairs? | ||
- | Center of mass | ||
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- | Week 5 | ||
- | 國慶日 | ||
- | Is energy always conserved? | ||
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- | Week 6 | ||
- | Conservative force and potential energy | ||
- | How does a rotating top maintain its balance? | ||
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- | Week 7 | ||
- | Moment of inertia | ||
- | Coriolis effect | ||
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- | Week 8 | ||
- | midterm (Q1-Q5) | ||
- | midterm 2 discussions | ||
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- | Week 9 | ||
- | Are black holes black? | ||
- | Gravity and spacetime curvature | ||
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- | Week 10 | ||
- | Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor? | ||
- | Hagen-Poiseuille equation | ||
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- | Week 11 | ||
- | What is propagating in traveling waves? | ||
- | Wave equation | ||
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- | Week 12 | ||
- | Wave equation 2 | ||
- | Sound waves | ||
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- | Week 13 | ||
- | How is thermal equilibrium reached? | ||
- | Heat and the first law of thermodynamics | ||
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- | Week 14 | ||
- | Heat and the first law of thermodynamics 2 | ||
- | How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system? | ||
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- | Week 15 | ||
- | Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics | ||
- | thermal and information entropy | ||
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- | Week 16 | ||
- | final (Q6-Q10) | ||
- | final discussions | ||
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- | ===== Weekly schedule ===== | ||
- | * Week 1: 9/17/2020 | ||
- | * The van der Waals system. | ||
- | * Fluids, Magnets, and the Ising Model. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.2, 7.3. | ||
- | * Week 2: 9/24/2020 | ||
- | * Mean Field Theory. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.4. | ||
- | * Week 3: 10/1/2020 中秋節 | ||
- | * No class. | ||
- | * Week 4: 10/8/2020 | ||
- | * Variational Density Matrix Method. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.5. | ||
- | * Week 5: 10/15/2020 | ||
- | * Variational Density Matrix Method. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.6. | ||
- | * Week 6: 10/22/2020 | ||
- | * Variational Density Matrix Method. | ||
- | * Landau Theory of Phase Transition. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.5, 7.6. | ||
- | * Week 7: 10/29/2020 | ||
- | * Landau Theory of Phase Transition. | ||
- | * Ising model. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 7.6, 6.2. | ||
- | * Week 8: 11/5/2020 | ||
- | * Ising model. | ||
- | * Transfer matrix, Peierls’ argument. | ||
- | * Arovas, Chapter 6.2. | ||
- | * Pathria, Chapter 13.2. | ||
- | * Baxter, Chapter 2. | ||
- | * Week 9: 11/12/2020 | ||
- | * 2D Ising model. | ||
- | * High temperature expansion, low temperature expansion. | ||
- | * Duality transformation. | ||
- | * Pathria, Chapter 13.4. | ||
- | * Baxter, Chapter 6. | ||
- | * Week 10: 11/19/2020 | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Week 11: 11/26/2020 | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Week 12: 12/3/2020 | ||
- | * Scaling. | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Week 13: 12/10/2020 | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Week 14: 12/17/2020 | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Finite size scaling. | ||
- | * Week 15: 12/24/2020 | ||
- | * Renormalization group. | ||
- | * Finite size scaling. | ||
- | * Week 16: 12/31/2020 | ||
- | * Finite size scaling. | ||
- | * Tensor renormalization group. | ||
- | * Week 17: 1/7/2021 | ||
- | * Week 18: 1/14/2021 | ||
- | ===== Homework ===== | ||