This will serve as a place to put handouts and notes for classes I am teaching, and a place to store particularly useful documents from classes I have taught.
- Physics 30 (fall 2007): General physics aimed primarily at life science majors and pre-med students. This semester covers classical mechanics (including oscillations and waves) and a bit of relativity.
- Physics 31 (spring 2008): General physics aimed primarily at life science majors and pre-med students. This semester covers electricity and magnetism, optics, and basic concepts of thermodynamics and quantum physics.
- Physics 115 (spring 2008): Statistical mechanics, which bridges the gap between the simple physics of individual atoms and realistic systems of (very) many particles. Based on Schroeder's textbook Thermal Physics.
Older stuff
- GRE Optics review (70 KB PDF; 4 pages): Notes on optics written for a physics GRE review course. We quickly decided that handing the students notes this detailed might lull them into thinking that we were going to do all the studying for them (and falsely so! Even this review doesn't cover everything GRE takers need to know, especially when it comes to general "waves" rather than pure optics.) But since I did already write up this one topic, I might as well post the notes here.
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Any questions or comments? Write to me: sjensen@jsd.claremont.edu
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