General Physics A II (Spring, 2024)
Lecturer: Prof. Hsiu-Hau LIN
Schedule: 10:10 - 12:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway and Jewett)
Ten-Question Syllabus (Semester II)
Q1: Why are most materials charge neutral?
Q2: What causes lightning?
Q3: Can magnetic forces do work?
Q4: How does the Earth’s magnetism arise?
Q5: Why can light propagate through vacuum?
Q6: What is the nature of light?
Q7: Why are atoms stable?
Q8: How is the secret of life encoded?
Q9: How can we date fossils?
Q10: What are the elementary building blocks of our universe?
(1) This course follows a 16-week syllabus with extra learning materials available
online (https://ocw.nthu.edu.tw/ocw/index.php?page=course&cid=107)
(2) AI tools (like ChatGPT) are allowed with necessary explanations.
(3) Important dates:
Week 8 - Midterm Apr 9 (Tue)
Week 16 - Final June 4 (Tue)
Class Lectures
Week 1
Course introduction
Q1: Why are most materials charge neutral?
Gauss law
Week 2
Q2: What causes lightning?
electrostatic potential energy
Week 3
Q3: Can magnetic forces do work?
magnetic dipoles
Week 4
Q4: How does the geomagnetic field arise?
Ampere law
Week 5
Q5: Why can light propagate in vacuum?
Faraday law
Week 6
energy in magnetic field
Maxwell equations 1
Week 7
清明節
Maxwell equations 2
Week 8
== Apr 9 == midterm (Q1-Q5)
Q6: What is the nature of light?
Week 9
photons
== Apr 18 == midterm discussions
Week 10
Q7: Why are atoms stable?
uncertainty principles
Week 11
Schrodinger equation
energy quantization
Week 12
quantum tunnelling
magic numbers in periodic table
Week 13
Q8: How is the secret of life encoded?
quantum theory of solids
Week 14
Q9: How can we date fossils?
Magnetic resonance imaging
Week 15
Q10: What are the building blocks of our universe?
after the big bang
Week 16
== June 4 == final (Q6-Q10)
Week 17
== June 13 == final discussions