PHY 3903 version 2005

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PHY 3903 version 2005
9.sept.2005

• Jean-Francois Mercier
• jmercier_at_physics.uottawa.ca
• 613-562-5800 x6773
• MCD 225

Béla Joós bjoos_at_uottawa.ca 613-562-5800
x6755 MCD 131
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Course Description

• Questions contemporaines en physique 2 cr.
  Discussions d'un choix de sujets et de méthodes
  en physique contemporaine avec présentations
  orale et écrite par les étudiants. Introduction
  à Maple ou Mathematica. Préalable 12 crédits
  en physique au niveau 2000.
• Contemporary Issues in Physics 2 cr. Discussions
  on contemporary topics and methods in physics,
  including oral and written presentations. An
  introduction to Maple or Mathematica.
  Prerequisite 12 credits in physics at the
  2000-level.

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Description

• Maple
• An analytic computation system.
• Project (Review of any subject in physics)
• Written (4 pages PRL format)
• Oral presentation
• Physics as a profession
• Etudes graduées (bourses, conseils )
• Physics resources

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Evaluation

• Project 40
• your topic 5
• PRL format 20
• seminar 15
• Physics as a profession 10
• www, main journal,
• Grad. studies
• Scholarship
• Application 10

• No EXAM!
• Implacable pour le plagiat!
• Maple 50
• 5 weeks
• 5 assignments
• Assignments 50

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Schedule

• Vendredi/Friday 1430-1630/1645
• CUBE 202 (Maple) MCD 120 (?)

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Maple Divers Student Presentations No
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Schedule II
CBE 202
Date Class Deadline
9 Sept Intro
16 Sept Maple 1
23 Sept Others Subject
30 Sept. Maple 2 Dev 1
7 Oct. Maple 3 Dev 2
14 octobre Maple 4 Dev 3
21 octobre No class
28 octobre Maple 5 Dev 4
Date Class Deadline
4 Nov. Autres Dev 5
11 Nov. Autres
18 Nov. Student Present.
25 Nov. Student Present.
2 Dec. Student Present.
4 Dec. Scholarship Application
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Project (review of a physics topic)

• Topic
• Anything in physics
• Should be exciting
• Need to be precise
• Unique (1st come 1st serve)
• Needs my approvalbefore September 23 (5)
• Peut être interdisciplinaire
• May be helpful to plan for M.Sc..

• Seminar
• 10 min 2 min Qtransparencies orPowerPoint
• Seminars to take place in the last 3 weeks of
  semester
• Département invité
• Texte de 4 pages format PRL (dû la même journée
  que le séminaire)

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Physical Review Letters (PRL)

• The 1 physics journal in the world
• All articles have 4 pages (or less)
• Only for the latest, major discoveries

• Less than 25 of the manuscripts are accepted for
  publication
• American Physical Society
• www.aps.org/

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PRL

• http//prl.aps.org/from a UofO computer
• Print a few examples and/or their instructions
• You must present a text with EXACTLY that format

• Vous pouvez LaTex (REVtex), Word, etc.
• 4 pages max
• Une copie électronique pour mon site w3
• Français ou anglais, but well-written

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Notes - Figures/tables - Captions -
Acknowledgments - References notes 1- -
Reference style - SI units - Please, note the
existence of paragraphs, as well as ., - Spell
check
Notes - title - names addresses - received -
abstract - PACS - text no divisions does
include introduction, methods, results,
conclusion - 2 columns - head/foot
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PLAN Physics as a profession

• 1. M. Sc. Ph. D.
• 2. Industry
• 3. Physics Publications
• 3. Séminaires
• 4. Latex
• 5. www
• 6.

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Maple

• Computer lab classes
• Get a account!!!
• Lecture notes on a web site (http//137.122.151.31
  /PHY3903/)
• Assignments due on assignment day, on diskette
• Implacable pour le plagiat!
• Livre Heck (optional)

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Maple

• Command the brilliance of a thousand
  mathematicians (so they say!)
• Harnessing the Power of Mathematics
• (so they say!)
• Very powerful Mathematical tool
• Algebraic calculations, Integrals, Calculus,
• Visualization tools
• Make easily pretty graphs (2D, 3D)
• Fully programmable (Maplet)

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PLAN Maple 9

• Getting started (?Chapters 1-4))
• Polynomials (?Chapters 5-7, 14)
• Functions (?Chapter 8)
• Calculus (?Chapters 9-11, 17)
• List, set, array (Chapter 12 )
• Linear Algebra (?Chapters 18, 19)
• Solving equations (?Chapter 16)
• Graphics (?Chapter 15)

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Maple Ressources

• MAPLE HELP!
• New users (Quick and Full tour)
• Example worksheets
• Basic how to
• Course Manual (Andre Heck) - optional
• Agora (62)
• On the website
• User Manual (maple_user_manual.pdf)
• Learning Guide (maple_getting_started_guide.pdf)
• Maple demo (MapleEssentials.zip)
• Intro to Maple for Physics students (Physics.zip)
• Maple web site http//www.maplesoft.com
• http//www.maplesoft.com/applications/app_center_b
  rowse.aspx?SCID92CID2

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• Maple is a software. The only way to learn it is
  to USE IT!!!

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Buying Maple

• www.maplesoft.com
• Promotion code AP4941C
• CAN 80.00 for students