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Bryn Mawr College Physics 201: Electromagnetism Spring 2008 |
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General Information |
General information, syllabus, and course policies: Course website, Instructor, What this class is about, Class meetings, Syllabus, Lab, Homework, Text, Lecture notes and worked examples, Exams, Grading, Honor Code, Accomodations, What to Call Me | ||||||||||||||||||
| Instructor |
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| Office Hours |
My office is Park 351.
My office hours this week:
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Times and Places |
There will be no class Wednesday, November 26 (Thanksgiving) or Wednesday, December 10 (instructor out of town). A makeup time for the latter class will be scheduled near the end of the semester. |
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| Homework |
Homework #1 (due Sept. 10) |
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| Class Notes |
Click on the date to download the notes distributed in
class on that day. Note that these notes
are intentionally incomplete (e.g., they do not contain
solutions to problems we work in class).
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| General Physics Links |
Astronomy Picture of the day Hubble Space Telescope image gallery National Radio Astronomy Observatory image gallery Physics News Update Phys Rev Focus (recent physics papers with explanations for non-specialists) Fundamental Physical Constants Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial (UCLA) Cosmology overview from the WMAP site An introduction to particle physics Review of particle physics (highly technical) The Time Accelerate a particle! Game at CERN Google maps satellite images of some big physics experiments
Accelerators
Fermilab
Radio Telescopes
SLAC Brookhaven National Lab (RHIC) Jefferson National Lab (CEBAF) You can't see much at CERN; the accelerator is deep underground.
Arecibo Observatory
Interferometric Gravitational Wave Telescopes
There's no place like home....
Jodrell Bank Observatory (Manchester, England) GMRT (Pune, India) -- Zoom out to see more telescopes WSRT (Westerbork, Netherlands) MPIfR 100 m telescope (Effelsberg, Germany) Very Large Array (try zooming in and out) Nançay Observatory Green Bank Telescope (low resolution) Parkes telescope (low resolution) |
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