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The "syllabus" outline from the first day of the review sessions in preparation for the 2008 exam is available as a pdf.

Some of the problems assigned below are not included in the packet, and can be found on the Princeton physics department website.

Abe Fetterman's "plasmagicians" site is down unfortunately, but many of the solutions on the site can be found at: http://www.pppl.gov/~afetter/.

I also recently found solutions to some problems put together by previous Russian students: Russian students' solutions.

The homework problems assigned each day are listed below:

9/24 General Lecture: Math Review, References, Topic Preferences, Q/A

• Lagrangian Formalism, Small Oscillations, Normal Modes
• HW: 5/04 CM2, 1/99 CM 2, 5/01 CM1
• See also: 1/01 CM1, 1/03 CM2, 5/02 CM2, 5/98 CM2, 1/02 CM1, Red Book 1.34

9/27 Electrostatics, Dielectrics, Maxwell Equations, Method of images: review

• HW: 5/99 EM3, 5/97 EM1, 5/00 EM2 (b bonus)
• See also: 1/06 EM1, 1/02 EM3, 5/05 EM1, 1/03 EM2, 5/01 EM1,
• Red Book Problems:3.1--3.17, Griffiths 7.39, 7.41, Jackson 4.7, 4.9

10/1 Basic Thermo/Ideal Gas:

• HW: 1/97 SM3, 5/03 SM1, 5/04 SM1
• See also: 1/01 SM1, 1/99 SM2, 1/02 SM1

10/4 Schrodinger Equation, Boundary Conditions, 1-D Scattering:

• HW: 1/04 QM1, 1/02 QM1, 1/01 QM2
• See also: 5.1, 5.5, 5.9

10/7 Rotating coordinate systems, rigid bodies

• HW: 5/04 CM3, 5/00 CM2, 1/99 CM1
• See Also: 1/07 CM1, 1/06 CM1, 1/01 CM3, 5/03 CM2, 5/02 CM3, 5/99 CM1
• Red Book Problems: 1.39 1.40 1.43 1.45

10/10 Magnetostatics and Faraday review

• HW: 1/02 EM3, 1/04 EM1, 5/00 EM3
• See also: 1/06 EM2
• Griffiths: 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.13, 7.7
• Jackson: 5.8. 5.13, 5.19, 5.21, 5.22

10/15 Entropy, Partition function

• HW: 1/00 SM1, 1/04 SM1, 1/03 SM3
• See also: (Entropy) 1/02 SM3, 5/99 SM2,
• (Partition function) 1/06 SM3, 5/05 SM2, 1/94 SM1, 1/98 SM3, 1/05 SM2, 1/03 SM2, 5/00 SM3, 5/98 SM2
• Blue Book: 4.35-4.48
• Review text: Kittel & Kroemer Thermal Physics CH1-3

10/18 Angular Momentum, Spin

• HW: 1/04 QM3, 1/03 QM3, 5/04 QM2
• See also: 5/01 QM1, 1/01 QM3, 1/06 QM3, 1/04 QM2, 5/03 QM1

10/22 Orbits, Central Forces

• HW: 1/03 CM3, 1/04 CM2, 5/00 CM1
• See also: 1/06 CM2, 1/05 CM3, 5/03 CM1, 1/02 CM2, 1/01 CM2, 1/00 CM3, 5/99 CM2, 1/99 CM3, 5/97 CM2, 5/96 CM2, 1/96 CM3, 5/95 CM1

10/25 Waves, plasma

• HW: 1/03 EM1, 5/01 EM2, 1/01 EM3

11/05 Chemical Potential, Grand Cannonical Ensemble, Bose/Fermi Stats

• HW: 5/04 SM2, 5/03 SM2, 1/02 SM2

11/08 Time Indep. Perturbation Theory, Variational Methods

• HW: 5/00 QM1, 1/00 QM2

11/19 Classical Mechanics miscellaneous

• HW: 5/01 CM2, 5/04 CM1, 1/98 CM3, 5/05 CM2, 5/04 CM3

11/27 EM Radiation I

• HW:5/98 EM3, 5/99 EM1, 1/00 EM3
• See also: 1/99 EM3

11/29 Atoms and Frames

• HW:5/01 QM2, 5/99 QM2, 1/04 QM2

12/3 Ising Model

• HW: 5/97 SM3, 1/01 SM3, 5/04 SM3 (bonus)
• See also: 10/86 SM3 (somewhat different)

12/6 Quantum Scattering

• HW: 1/00 QM1, 5/04 QM3, 5/05 QM2

12/10 EM Radiation II

• HW: 1/01 EM2, 5/97 EM2, 5/98 EM1

12/13 Stat. Mech. Grab Bag

• HW: 1/02 SM3, 1/97 SM3, 1/99 SM1, 5/00 SM1