The class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-3:15 pm in B&L 270 during Fall 2008.
The First class will be on Sep 3 Wednesday.
There is no final examination in this course. The grade will be determined by the homeworks.
Ignore any notices you get about the final exam from the Registrar!
My office hours are Mon. 1:00-2:00 pm at B&L 351
We will study the structure of matter at the smallest known levels. Most of an atom is empty space: almost all the mass is concentrated in the nucleus. The nucleus is made of protons and neutrons. These are in turn made of quarks. As far as we know, quarks are fundamental: they cannot be split into anything smaller. Our aim is to understand how these particles bind to each other.
Some knowledge of quantum mechanics and `modern' physics will be assumed.
The mathematical tools we will need are calculus, linear algebra and probability.
Your Teaching Assistant, John Golden, will grade the problems. John will have office hours 3:15-4:15 on Monday. He will announce in class where you can hand in homeworks.
There is no required text book for the course. Some books that have a significant overlap with the course are:
Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics by A Das & T Ferbel
Subatomic Physics Hans Frauenfelder, Ernest M. Henley
Introduction to High Energy Physics by Donald H. Perkins
