Essential Physics II
This webpage has copies of the slides used in each lecture. Any problems, please email the instructor at tasker(at)astro1.sci.hokudai.ac.jp or TA jin(at)astro1.sci.hokudai.ac.jp.
Course syllabus can be found here.
News
Welcome to Essential Physics II!
The textbook, "Essential University Physics" (with MasteringPhysics) by Richard Wolfson / Pearson (ISBN 978-0321714381) is available from the COOP/SEIKYOU or from amazon. You will need a copy to complete the homeworks. Please make sure it includes your student access code for 'Mastering Physics'.
When you log onto the `Mastering Physics' site, please join the course EP22015TASKER. If you do not already have an account, please register using the student access code that came with your textbook. Homework will be posted weekly on that site. For instructions on how to register for the site, please go here.
[CLASS CHANGE] New class: 26/11 at 6:15 pm. Class 7/12 cancelled.
Slides
Lecture 1: Syllabus, homework system and maths practice
Video: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Homework article: India's mission to Mars (due 2015/10/05) (Tips on how to report on an article)
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/10/15]
Lecture 2: Heat and temperature
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/10/15]
Lecture 3: Heat and matter
Video: "Superfluid"
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/10/26]
Lecture 4: Heat and work
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/10/26]
Lecture 5: Electric Fields
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/11/02]
Lecture 6: Gauss's Law for Electric Fields
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/11/09]
Lecture 7: The Electric Potential
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/11/16]
Homework article: The Higgs Boson discovery
Video: "The Higgs Boson"
Lecture 8: Magnetic Fields
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/11/26]
(Next lecture: 2015/11/26)
(For interest) The Hayabusa2 mission
Video: "The Hayabusa2 mission"
JAXA launch information: English / 日本語
Lecture 9: Magnetic Fields
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/12/14]
Homework article: The Greatest Light Show on Earth
Video: "The Aurora Borealis"
Lecture 10: Electromagnetic Induction
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/12/14]
Lecture 11: Maxwell's Equations
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2015/12/21]
Lecture 12: Modern Physics
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2016/1/12]
Lecture 13: Quantum Mechanics
Video: "The Double Slit Experiment"
Handout: Exam equation sheet
[Homework on MasteringPhysics: due 2016/1/18]
Lecture 14: Particle Physics
Video: "The Standard Model"
[Homework.... revise for exam!]
Useful links
Mastering Physics online homework