Time and location:

• Time: T Th 2:30 - 3:50
• Place: 144 Loomis Laboratory

Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour 2.30 p.m. Wed

TAs:

• Richard Evans (490 Loomis) Office hour 12.00 p.m. Tues
• Victor Vakaryuk (4119 ESB) Office hour 9.30 a.m. Mon

The final exam is on Friday 14 Dec at 1.30 pm. This information is given in the "Approximate syllabus" document on this page. It will be in the usual lecture room, 144 Loomis. The exam will be of standard 3-hour "closed-book" type; the general nature of the questions will be similar to that of the earlier short writing assignments, but they are likely to be more wide-ranging than the latter, which were usually restricted to the specific topics which were being covered at the time.

• Approximate Syllabus, Schedule and Assessment Policy
• Notes on the Term Paper

• Guidlines for Written Assignments (read this first)

• Written Assignment 1

• Written Assignment 2

• Written Assignment 3

• Written Assignment 4

• Written Assignment 5

• Lecture 6. Newtonian Mechanics

• Lecture 7. Philosophical Issues in Newtonian Mechanics

• Lecture 8. Symmetry Principles and Conservation Laws

• Lecture 9. Waves in Classical Physics

• Lecture 10. Electricity, Magnetism and Light

• Lecture 11. Space, Time and Simultaneity

• Lecture 12. Consequences of special relativity

• Lecture 13. Relativistic Mechanics: Mass-energy Relation

• Lecture 14. General relativity: equivalence principle and space-time curvature.

• Lecture 15. Philosophical Issues Related to Special and General Relativity.

• Lecture 16. ``Wave-particle duality'': the basic experimental facts.

• Lecture 17. ``Wave-particle duality''and Two-Slit Experiment: Analysis.

• Lecture 18. Probability, Determinism and Objectivity in Classical and Quantum Physics.

• Lecture 19. Hidden Variables.

• Lecture 20. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought-experiment and Bell's theorem.

• Lecture 21. The quantum measurement paradox: the ``orthodox'' solution.

• Lecture 22. Some ``solutions'' of the quantum measurement paradox.

• Lecture 23. Quantum Mechanics and ``Reality''.

• Lecture 24. The advantages of ignorance: statistical mechanics.

• Lecture 25. The arrow of time.

• Lecture 26. Cosmology: the ``standard'' model.

• Lecture 27. Some philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Lecture 28. What have we learned?