Physics 225a, Fall 2008

  1. Week 1 -
    1. Problem Set 1 Solutions
    2. Lecture Notes
  2. Week 2 -
    1. Problem Set 2 Solutions
    2. Lecture Notes
  3. Week 3 -
    1. Excerpts from `Subatomic Particles' concerning Electron Discovery
    2. Lecture Notes
  4. Week 4 -
    1. Lecture Notes - Monday Lecture
    2. Lecture Notes - Tuesday Lecture
      1. Excerpt of text on Thomas-Fermi Atom
      2. Excerpt from Jackson's EM on dE/dx
    3. Figures
    4. Problem Set 3 Solutions
  5. Week 5 -
    1. Lecture Notes - Tuesday Lecture (Monday was from last week's... didn't finish last week)
    2. Problem Set 4
  6. Week 6 - Lecture Notes
  7. Week 7 - Positron Discovery
    1. Anderson's short Science Article
    2. Blackett and Occhialini's Article
    3. Anderson's Physical Review Article
    4. Anderson's 1936 Nobel Lecture
  8. Week 8 - More discovery... showers and the muon
    1. First Lecture Notes
    2. Primary Cosmic Rays (from RPP)
    3. Secondary Cosmic Rays in Atmosphere (from RPP)
    4. Second Lecture Notes
    5. Longitudinal Development of an Electromagnetic Shower (from RPP)
    6. Super-K's wall of PMT's... to detect Cerenkov Radiation
    7. Longitudinal Developmet of Hadronic Showers (Atlas)
    8. READ THESE FOR NEXT MONDAY - particularly the last one!
      1. Discovery of the Muon... Anderson/Neddermeyer
        1. Showers by Anderson/Neddermeyer
      2. Discovery of the Muon... Street/Stevenson
      3. That the muon is not the pion...