Lecture Notes

CCSF PHYC 4D Lecture Notes

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Lecture notes

Hand-written notes and figures

Wave review: page-1 page-2
Chapter 2: page-1 page-2 page-3 page-4 page-5 page-6
Chapter 3: page-1 page-2 page-3 page-4 page-5
Chapter 6: page-1
Chapter 4b: page-1
Chapter 5: page-1
Chapter 8: page-1
Chapter 9: page-1

Preliminary lecture notes (text files)

These preliminary lecture notes were written during Summer 2011 in preparation for my first semester teaching PHYC 4D. They are text files written in outline form. The intention was to convert them into full lecture notes. Due to time constraints (and the fact that I rarely got this far into the course), the full lecture notes were never completed for Chapters 9-11, so I'm including the outlines for those chapters here. They are covered by the same copyright and license as the full lecture notes.

Additional references (cited above)

Callan, Herbert B., "Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (2nd ed)", John Wiley and Sons (1985).
Harris, Randy, "Nonclassical Physics: Beyond Newton's View", Addison-Wesley (1998).
Liboff, Richard L., "Introductory Quantum Mechanics (1st ed)", Addison-Wesley (1980).

Additional handwritten notes

Free rotations in both classical and quantum physics (Chapter 9)
The pn junction (Chapter 11)
Spin 1/2 representation (Chapter 7-8): page-1 page-2

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