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The most basic features of quantum theory may ensure that time travellers could never alter the past. . .The constraint arises from a quantum object's ability to behave like a wave. Quantum objects split their existence into multiple component waves, each following a distinct path through space-time. Ultimately, an object is usually most likely to end up in places where its component waves recombine, or interfere, constructively, with the peaks and troughs of the waves lined up, say. The object is unlikely to be in places where the components interfere destructively, and cancel each other out. Waves that travel back in time interfere destructively, thus preventing anything from happening differently from that which has already taken place.
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Physics 197

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Dates: July 13, 2005 to August 23, 2005
Required Texts: Physics, Serway, 6th ed.


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Chapter 16
July 13-14
Wave Motion

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6
Questions
A,B,C
Problems
9,10,11,13,18,19,
24,25,34,36,68


Due: July 18 2005

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Chapter 17
July 14-18
Sound Waves

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6
Questions
9,10,21. A
Problems
1,3,7,8,9,31,37,38,45


Due: July 19 2005

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Chapter 18
July 19-20
Superposition

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Questions
11,14,16
Problems
1,3,5,8,9,13,14,16,20,
27,40,47,60


Due: July 20 2005

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Chapter 34
July 26
Electromagnetic Waves

Sections 1,2,3,5,6
Questions

Problems
19,21,22,24,28,30,44,
45,48,51,52,54,65
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Due: July 28 2005

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Chapter 35
July 27
Nature of Light

Sections 1,2,3,4,6,7,8
Questions

Problems
2,3,10,12,13,14,15.
21,23,24,38,39,42

Due: July 28 2005

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Chapter 36
July 27-28
Image Formation

Sections 1,2,3,4,5
Questions

Problems
7,8,9,12,13,21,24,
28,30,34.36,37,38

Due: August 1, 2005

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Chapter 37
July 2-August 1
Interference

Sections 1,2,5,6
Questions
14
Problems
1,2,4,5,6,8,9,11
Due: August 3, 2005

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Chapter 38
August 1
Diffraction

Sections 1,2,3,5
Questions
1
Problems
1,2,3,4,5
Due: Aug 3 2005

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Chapter 39
August 2-3-4
Relativity

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Questions

Problems
1,2,4,5,6,7,8,15,16,17,26,27
28,34,35,40,53,55,56

Due: Aug 4 2005

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Chapter 40
August 9-10-11
Quantum Physics

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Questions
1,2,4,6,7,8,13,17,18,22
Problems
1,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,12,13,15,16,22,
27,28,31,33,34,37,48,49,50,51

Due: Aug 15, 2005
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Chapter 44
August 15-16-17
Nuclear Structure, II

Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Questions
15,16,23,24,29,34-1,2,3
Problems
9,14,15,24,25,29,34,35,
36,42,45,46,66,67,70

Due: Aug 22, 2005


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Chapter 46
August 18-22
Particle Physics and Cosmology
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Sections 1,2,3,4,6
Questions
1,2,4,5,6,8,9,10,12
Problems:
11,18,47

Due: Aug 23 2005


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