This page has homework assignments and solutions.
They are all from the course textbook, Serway 3rd edition.
Please don't look at the solutions until after
you make a
serious effort to solve the problems on your own.
First week (9/28): Chapter 1 problems:
Problems #:
2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 31, 33, 37
Solutions to all but prob. 2:
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Solution to prob.2:
Note: in Serway's older edition (2nd edition), the problems given
above have the following numbers:
Problems #: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 56, 58.
Problem 37 is not in the older edition.
Second week (10/5): Chapter 2 problems:
Problems #:
2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 31, 33
Solutions:
Third week (10/12): Chapter 3 problems:
Problems #:
2, 4, 5, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 37
Solutions:
Fourth week (10/19): Chapter 4 problems:
Problems #:
1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 27
Solutions:
Fifth week (10/26): Chapters 4 and 5 problems:
Chapter 4 Problems #:
14, 17, 22, 23, 25, 32, 33, 35, 37
Chapter 5 Problems #:
2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11
Solutions:
Sixth week (11/2): Chapters 5 and 6 problems:
Chapter 5 Problems #:
12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 35, 36
Chapter 6 Problems #:
2, 3, 4
Solutions:
Seventh week (11/9): Chapter 6 problems:
Problems #:
6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 24, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34
Solutions:
Eighth week (11/16):
Chapter 6 problems: 35, 37
Chapter 7 problems: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17, 18
Addendum to problem 16:
Estimate the transmission coefficient Eq. 7.10 for
the alpha-particle to tunnel through
the barrier, of width 10 fm, if the alpha-particle
is in the (i) ground state (n=1) and
(ii) if it is in the n=6 excited state.
Solutions:
Ninth week (11/26): Chapter 8 problems:
Problems #:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22
Solutions:
Tenth week (11/30):
Chapter 8 Problems:
24, 25, 26, 29, 30
Chapter 9 Problems:
1, 4, 6, 17, 21, 24
Solutions: