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| Lecturer : | Prof. Ben Kilminster |
| Lectures ( PHY127.1 ): |
Friday, 08:00 - 09:45 |
| Exercise sessions ( PHY127.2 ): | Tuesday or Wednesday, 13:00 - 15:45 (First : 27th Feb 2024) |
| Office Hours | Fridays 11:45-13:00 at 36J50 or by email appointment |
A document with german/english translations of common physics quantities, as well as a reminder of the units of such quantities is available here PHY127-FS2024-helper.pdf (PDF, 95 KB)
Texts:
Formelsammlung Mittelschulphysik (PDF, 396 KB) is also useful for usage of basic formulas.
Exercises are posted on OLAT every 2 weeks on Friday after lecture.
Exercise sessions in the following week will help you understand the terms and concepts of the exercises. Exercise sessions in the second week after the exercises are assigned will explain the solutions. It is expected that you will complete the exercises before this second exercise session.
There will be no podcasts of exercise classes.
Exam guidelines :
Exams will be similar in style to the exercises. A formula sheet with all needed equations will be provided to you for use throughout the semester, and in the exams. We will provide you with paper and a calculator (PDF, 1 MB).
The final exam will be printed in english and in german. The following are forbidden in exams :
Exam date: 28.06.2024, 10:00 - 12:00
Repeat exam date: 13.09.2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Your grade is based on the following assessments :
Attendance is expected and recorded for exercise sessions. The final examination will be composed of questions similar to those presented in the lectures and the weekly exercises.
The course will cover modern physics topics such as relativity, quantum physics, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics, radiation, particle-wave duality, particles interacting in matter, particle detection. These ideas will be used to explain the basics of modern radiation techniques for diagnostics and treatment, and such instruments as X-rays, CT scanners, PET scanners, NMR, MRI, etc.
In order to gain some insight into the prerequisites students bring with them to this lecture, I ask you to complete this survey in OLAT during or shortly after the first lecture.
| Lecture schedule (12 lectures) | Topics | PDF of chalkboard | Additional resources |
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Week 1 (Feb. 23rd, 2024) |
Intro, units, reminder of forces, and force balancing. |
See additional resources linked above. | |
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Week 2 (Mar. 1st, 2024) |
Electromagnetic radiation. | PHY127-FS2024-L2.pdf (PDF, 13 MB) | See PHY121 script, chapters 13,18,&19 for more on waves, the power of heat of EM radiation. |
| Week 3 (Mar. 8th, 2024) | But are photons particles or waves ? | PHY127-FS2023-L3 (PDF, 12 MB) |
See Thornton & Rex, "Modern Physics", chapter 3, available online. |
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Week 4 (Mar. 15th, 2024) |
Waves, standing waves, probabilities | See Script 1 chapter 12 on harmonic oscillators, and script 2 chapter 12 on waves. | |
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Week 5 (Mar. 22nd, 2024) |
Wave-particle duality, wave packets, uncertainty principle, Schroedinger wave equation | PHY127-FS2024-L5.pdf (PDF, 10 MB) |
See script sectipon 12.1.2 & 12.1.3 for small-angle approximation, more on waves in chapter 13. Wave-diffraction (GIF, 592 KB), Wave-diffraction-big-aperture (GIF, 276 KB), wave-packet (GIF, 3 MB) , group-and-phase-velocity (GIF, 1 MB) |
| Holiday, Mar. 29th, 2024 | |||
| Holiday, Apr. 5th, 2024 | |||
| Week 6 (Apr. 12th, 2024) |
The quantum nature of electrons in an atom, and emitted light. Standing waves. Particle in a 3D box. |
PHY127-FS2024-L6.pdf (PDF, 10 MB) |
Videos shown on standing waves on a 2D drum: StandingWave-drum-1 (GIF, 191 KB) StandingWave-drum-2 (GIF, 190 KB) StandingWave-drum-3 (GIF, 115 KB) StandingWave-drum-4 (GIF, 214 KB) StandingWave-drum-5 (GIF, 138 KB) StandingWave-drum-6 (GIF, 245 KB)
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Week 7 (Apr. 19th, 2024) |
Hydrogen atom in 3D, with 3 quantum numbers. Angular momentum. Standing waves. | For more information, see script 1 on angular momentum, and script 2 on magnetic moment. | |
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Week 8 (Apr. 26th, 2024)
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Many-electron atoms, charge screening, X-rays, Bremsstrahlung, Characteristic X-rays, Thomson scattering, Compton effect, Bragg's law |
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Week 9 (May 3rd, 2024)
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X-ray penetration, attenuation, radiation dose, exposure dose, biological effects of radiation, CT scans with X-rays, pair production, pair annihilation, PET scans | PHY127-FS2024-L9.pdf (PDF, 28 MB) | |
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Week 10 (May 10th, 2024) |
microCT, nanoCT, phase-contrast imaging, Fresnel plate focusing, synchrotron accelerators, X-ray synchrotron imaging, X-ray free electron laser imaging |
PHY127-FS2024-L10.pdf (PDF, 53 MB)
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Videos in PPTs below PHY127-FS2024-L10-vids copy.pptx (PPTX, 31 MB) |
| Week 11 (May 17th, 2024) | Angular momentum, precession of spinning object in gravity, precession of magnet in magnetic field, nuclear magnetic moment, nuclear magnetic resonance | PHY127-FS2024-L11.final.pdf (PDF, 5 MB) | |
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Week 12 (May 24th, 2024)
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nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), strong nuclear force, nuclear structure | PHY127-FS2024-L12.pdf (PDF, 25 MB) | More on solenoids (sec. 8.2), and induced currents due to changing magnetic moments (sec. 8.3) in script. |
| Week 13 (May 31st, 2024) | Nuclear stability, nuclear decay, alpha, beta, gamma radiation. Decay series chains. Half lives. Bethe-Bloch energy loss. Dose delivered. Nuclear fission. Nuclear fusion. | PHY127-FS2024-L13.pdf (PDF, 31 MB) |
