Physics 1120: Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics
Instructor: Steven Pollock and Mike
Dubson.
Apparatus for atomic vapor Bose-Einstein condensation. Currents flowing in the circular coils make magnetic fields, and these are used to trap and cool the atoms. It was done first in 1995 by CU physics professors Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman. Learn more about it, and maybe you too could win the Nobel Prize.
Week 9 Highlights:
Lectures this week on Chapters 29, the Magnetic Field.
Reading:
Chapter 29 Magnetic Fields
Special notes: 
- If you are unhappy with your score on the exams, please read this advice, comments, and suggestions page
(and then feel free to meet with Prof.Pollock or Dubson in office hours
to
talk further)
- Have you noticed that detailed solutions to all homework problems
(including long answer and CAPA) are posted every week under
the "homework and recit. solns" link ? And similarly, that there are all
the old tutorial pretests available at the bottom of the "pretests"
link?
- Exam solutions are now posted, see "exams and grades" link.
Grades have been emailed to you.
- Several years ago, NASA/Johns Hopkins physicists and engineers saved a
potentially dead satellite experiment by
using the earth's
magnetic field to help orient the satellite. It's an impressive
feat, and uses the basic physics of magnetic force we're learning about
this week.
Home page from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7 ,
8
I welcome your comments on the class and this website.
Send them to Steven.Pollock@colorado.edu
(Many thanks to John Price for the original construction of this page!)
