8.12
Physics Project Laboratory
Professor Richard Yamamoto
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Jan 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 09-05:00am, 4-365, Detailed hours posted below
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: —
Level: U 12 units Standard A - F Grading
Offers an opportunity for students to carry out experimental projects based on their own curiosity, interests, and ideas to study physical phenomena, including optics, acoustics, magnetism, and quantum effects. Faculty help students to determine the feasibility of proposed projects and provide guidance in experimental techniques, data acquisition, error analysis and physical interpretation of results. Prior experience in a laboratory environment is not required. Not usable as a restricted elective by Physics majors.
This course is concurrent with 8.122. Meeting times are T, W, Th 10 a.m. - 12 noon & 1 p.m - 5 p.m; F 10 a.m. - 12 noon and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Contact: Professor Richard Yamamoto, 24-043C, x3-6073, rky@MITLNS.MIT.EDU
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8.122
Advanced Project Laboratory
Professor Richard Yamamoto
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Jan 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 09am-05:00pm, 4-365, Detailed hours posted below
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: 8.02
Level: U 12 units Standard A - F Grading
Laboratory subject that offers students the opportunity to carry out experimental physics projects of their own design. Emphasizes contemporary ideas in laboratory techniques and the use of on-line data acquisition, whenever possible. Projects designed by students are based on physics phenomena they have encountered in coursework or on their own. Faculty teach students how to use various laboratory instruments, how to cope with possible systematic errors in their results, and how to determine statistical errors from numerical data.
This course is concurrent with 8.12. Meeting times are T, W, Th 10 a.m. - 12 noon & 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.; F 10 a.m. - 12 noon & 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Contact: Professor Richard Yamamoto, 24-043C, x3-6073, rky@mitlns.mit.edu
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8.20
Introduction to Special Relativity
Professor Barton Zwiebach
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Jan 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 10:30am-12:00pm, 2-146
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: 8.01, 8.02, 18.01
Level: U 9 units Standard A - F Grading
Introduces the basic ideas and equations of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Topics include: Lorentz transformations, length contraction and time dilation, four vectors, Lorentz invariants, relativistic energy and momentum, relativisitic kinematics, Doppler shift, space-time diagrams, relativity paradoxes, and some concepts of general relativity. This subject is aimed at the freshman and sophomore level. Not usable as a restricted elective by Physics majors. Credit cannot be received for 8.20 if credit for 8.033 is or has been received in the same or prior terms.
Contact: Professor Barton Zwiebach, 6-316, x3-4839, zwiebach@MITLNS.MIT.EDU
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8.21
Classical Mechanics II
Professor Peter Fisher
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Jan 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 10:30am-12:00pm, 2-147
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: 8.033, 18.02
Level: U 6 units Standard A - F Grading
Continuation of 8.033, containing the more theoretical topics. Normally taken by physics majors in their sophomore year. Hamilton's Principle. Linear mechanics with applications to continuous media. Hamiltonian formulation. Liouville's theorem. Action-angle variables in one dimension. Poisson brackets. Canonical transformations. Noether's theorem. Integrable vs non-integrable systems.
Contact: Professor Peter Fisher, 44-124, x3-8561, fisherp@mit.edu
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