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MARKUS KLUTE: Welcome to 8701.
My name is Markus Klute.
I'm going to be your instructor for this class.
This class is taught in an inverted classroom,
a flipped classroom environment.
So this is the very first of a large number
of small, short videos, which [INAUDIBLE] is the contents
of slides I've prepared.
For this first slide, it's not necessary
that you even watch the video, because they
should explain themselves.
And I will not give you too much additional information.
As we go deeper into the content,
that's not quite the case.
And that might be useful for you to watch the videos,
learn, stop, record a number of questions, so
if some of the problems which I pose on the slides, and so on.
So this is the very first one.
And the idea of this sort of slide
is to just give you a quick overview of what
to expect for this class.
The first thing we look at is the calendar
for the fall semester.
The summer ended much more quickly
than we were all hoping for.
The weather is still very nice out there, but fall is coming.
So Tuesday, September 1st, we'll meet and greet
in the first session.
That session is really just meant
for an overview of the course organization, and so on.
So this kind of information as I give in this video
will be very briefly covered on that Tuesday, as well.
As you can see from the calendar,
we meet Tuesday and Thursday.
The meeting or the visitation starts at 1:30 PM.
I aim for one hour in each of those meetings,
but we can stay a little longer, even half an hour longer,
if there's open questions or need for discussion.
This semester will give us a few holidays along the way.
There's Columbus Day, where Tuesday is a student holiday.
I will not have a recitation on Election Day.
I want you to focus on the election,
and I will focus on it myself.
And then there is the week of Thanksgiving
where we will not have any meeting,
any class during that week.
You can also see that there is a number of PSets
in the second week.
We'll post a PSet, and I'll give you about two weeks
to respond to that PSet.
More on how we evaluate in this class
in a different recording--
just to say here already that there's
going to be two oral exams towards the middle
of the semester and towards the end, very short,
little test, 15 minutes per student.
We will set up individual meetings to go over this.
And then there is Friday as an office hour.
I haven't specified the time for this yet.
I sent you a Doodle poll.
And we'll find the time which works for most of you
on a Friday afternoon or Friday morning.
This class doesn't have a final, so it basically
ends with the last day of class, which
is oral exams in the 15th week of this class.
Looking a little bit into the content,
the first week is really an introduction
and some historic remarks.
We'll talk about relativistic kinematics.
And then we'll go along the outline as
given in one of our textbooks.
Again, textbooks are being discussed yet
in a different short presentation.
But I really follow along this textbook,
but not stick too much to only the content of that textbook.
And I will supplement the information
using other textbooks, as well, specifically
when it comes to some of the problems and discussions which
come along.
You can see that we'll start with particle physics,
talk about quarks, leptons, and interactions,
talk about how this fits in a theoretical way
with invariance principle and conservation laws.
And we'll look at scattering, and then
QCD before we go into weak interaction.
And from there on, we build the standard model
with the electroweak interaction, the Higgs
mechanisms.
For week eight, then, or the end of week eight
will give us a break, where we then start
talking about nuclear physics.
This order of talking about particle physics and then
nuclear physics makes a lot of sense to me.
It doesn't make sense in historic context,
because nuclear physics have developed
before the standard model, for example, was developed.
But in order to fully appreciate nuclear physics,
it's useful to have introduced basic interactions.
And therefore, this is the reason for this order.
And then we'll try to bring in experimental methods
with accelerators, colliding beams, and experimental methods
on how particles interact with matter and detectors.
Again, in this schedule, the Thanksgiving week is off.
And we'll use the last remaining week
to discuss physics beyond the standard model
and the connection to cosmology.
I said here the title the schedule will be tuned.
I very much expect that we have a little bit slippage in this,
but there is some room at the end
to make sure that we don't overrun,
and that I don't give you too much to learn, to read,
to watch movies, or do PSets as we go week by week.
This is it for this first recording.
As always, you can reach out and ask any sort of question,
either during the recitation, office hours, or separate.