McAllister Hull and David S. Saxon, Editors
INITIAL COURSE CONTENT:
1 INTRODUCTION
1 .l HISTORICAL SURVEY
1.2 NOTATION AND UNITS
1.3 UNITS OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM
1.4 ATOMIC MASS UNIT
1.5 PROPAGATION OF WAVES; PHASE AND GROUP SPEEDS
1.6 COMPLEX NUMBERS
2 PROBABILITY
2.1 DEFINITION OF PROBABILITY
2.2 SUMS OF PROBABILITIES
2.3 CALCULATION OF PROBABILITIES BY COUN’TING
2.4 PROBABILITY OF SEVERAL EVENTS OC:CUF!RINGTOGETHER
2.5 SUMMARY OF RULES FOR CALCULATINIG PROBABILITIES
2.6 DISTRYBUTION FUNCTIONS FOR COIN FLIPPING
2.7 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS FOR MORE THAN TWO POSSIBLE
OUTCOMES
2.8 EXPECTATION VALUES
2.9 NORMALIZATION
2.10 EXPECTATION VALUE OF THE NUMBER OF HEADS
2.1 1 EXPERIWIENTAL DETERMINATION OF PROBABILITY
2.12 EXPERIMENTAL ERROR
2.13 RMS DEVIATION FROM THE MEAN
2.114 RMS DEVIATION FOR COIN FLIPPING
2.15 ERRORS IN A COIN-FLIPPING EXPERIMENT
2.16 ERRORS IN AVERAGES OF REPEATED EXPERIMENTS
2.17 PROBABILITY DENSITIES
2.18 EXPECTATION VALUES FROM PROBABILITY DENSITIES
2.19 GAUSS1A.NDISTRIBUTION
2.20 EXPECTATION VALUES USING A GAUSS1A.NDISTRIBUTION
SUMh\ARY
PROBLEMS
3 SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
3.1 CONFLICT BETWEEN ULTIMATE SPEED AND NEWTON’S LAWS
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