PHYSICS 9B
Section A
fall 2011
Joe Kiskis
jekiskis@ucdavis.edu
PHYSICS is FUN
Sadi Carnot
dressed like a
typical physicist
This course uses the honor system. You are on your honor to follow the
Code of Academic Conduct
.
Documents for the course:
Introductory documents:
Welcome
Course goals
Syllabus
Learning physics
How to read physics
Problem set information
Why clickers?
SmartSite
Labs
Readings
Problem sets
Midterm
Final info
Old final
Physics documents
Introduction to waves
Energy and power
Wave equation
Example initial condition problem for the wave equation
Fourier series
Doppler shift
Beats
Two source intensity
Multiple source interference and diffraction
Sum formula
Interference and diffraction
Geometrical optics sign conventions
First law stuff
Stirling engine
Get the program
StatMech
here.
Reversibility and ideal
Entropy
Information, entropy, and black holes
Fluids
(advanced material)