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PHY 3903 version 2005

Jean-Francois Mercierjmercier@physics.uottawa.ca

613-562-5800 x6773

MCD 225

9.sept.2005

Béla Joósbjoos@uottawa.ca 613-562-5800 x6755MCD 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 No EXAM!

Implacable pour le plagiat!

Maple = 50%– 5 weeks– 5 assignments

– Assignments = 50%

Project 40 %– your topic = 5%– PRL format = 20%– seminar = 15%

Physics as a profession 10%– www, main journal, … – Grad. studies– Scholarship

• Application = 10 %

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Schedule Vendredi/Friday 14:30-16:30/16:45

CUBE 202 (Maple) + MCD 120 (?)

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Maple – Divers – Student Presentations – No class

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Schedule II

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

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18 Nov. Student Present.

25 Nov. Student Present.

2 Dec. Student

Present.

4 Dec. Scholarship

Application

CBE 202

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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 approval

before September 23 (5%)

– Peut être interdisciplinaire

– May be helpful to plan for M.Sc..

Seminar:– 10 min + 2 min Q

transparencies 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_browse.aspx?SCID=92&CID=2

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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