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MARKUS KLUTE: Welcome to 8701.

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My name is Markus Klute.

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I'm going to be your
instructor for this class.

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This class is taught in
an inverted classroom,

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a flipped classroom environment.

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So this is the very
first of a large number

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of small, short videos, which
[INAUDIBLE] is the contents

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of slides I've prepared.

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For this first slide,
it's not necessary

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that you even watch
the video, because they

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should explain themselves.

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And I will not give you too
much additional information.

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As we go deeper
into the content,

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that's not quite the case.

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And that might be useful
for you to watch the videos,

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learn, stop, record a
number of questions, so

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if some of the problems which I
pose on the slides, and so on.

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So this is the very first one.

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And the idea of
this sort of slide

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is to just give you a
quick overview of what

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to expect for this class.

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The first thing we
look at is the calendar

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for the fall semester.

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The summer ended
much more quickly

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than we were all hoping for.

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The weather is still very nice
out there, but fall is coming.

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So Tuesday, September
1st, we'll meet and greet

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in the first session.

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That session is
really just meant

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for an overview of the course
organization, and so on.

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So this kind of information
as I give in this video

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will be very briefly covered
on that Tuesday, as well.

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As you can see
from the calendar,

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we meet Tuesday and Thursday.

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The meeting or the
visitation starts at 1:30 PM.

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I aim for one hour in
each of those meetings,

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but we can stay a little longer,
even half an hour longer,

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if there's open questions
or need for discussion.

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This semester will give us a
few holidays along the way.

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There's Columbus Day, where
Tuesday is a student holiday.

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I will not have a
recitation on Election Day.

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I want you to focus
on the election,

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and I will focus on it myself.

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And then there is the
week of Thanksgiving

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where we will not
have any meeting,

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any class during that week.

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You can also see that
there is a number of PSets

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in the second week.

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We'll post a PSet, and I'll
give you about two weeks

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to respond to that PSet.

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More on how we
evaluate in this class

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in a different recording--

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just to say here
already that there's

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going to be two oral
exams towards the middle

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of the semester and towards
the end, very short,

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little test, 15
minutes per student.

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We will set up individual
meetings to go over this.

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And then there is Friday
as an office hour.

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I haven't specified
the time for this yet.

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I sent you a Doodle poll.

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And we'll find the time
which works for most of you

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on a Friday afternoon
or Friday morning.

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This class doesn't have
a final, so it basically

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ends with the last
day of class, which

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is oral exams in the
15th week of this class.

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Looking a little bit
into the content,

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the first week is
really an introduction

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and some historic remarks.

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We'll talk about
relativistic kinematics.

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And then we'll go
along the outline as

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given in one of our textbooks.

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Again, textbooks are
being discussed yet

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in a different
short presentation.

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But I really follow
along this textbook,

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but not stick too much to only
the content of that textbook.

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And I will supplement
the information

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using other textbooks,
as well, specifically

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when it comes to some of the
problems and discussions which

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come along.

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You can see that we'll
start with particle physics,

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talk about quarks,
leptons, and interactions,

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talk about how this fits
in a theoretical way

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with invariance principle
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And we'll look at
scattering, and then

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QCD before we go into
weak interaction.

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And from there on, we
build the standard model

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with the electroweak
interaction, the Higgs

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mechanisms.

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For week eight, then,
or the end of week eight

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will give us a break,
where we then start

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talking about nuclear physics.

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This order of talking about
particle physics and then

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nuclear physics makes
a lot of sense to me.

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It doesn't make sense
in historic context,

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because nuclear
physics have developed

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before the standard model,
for example, was developed.

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But in order to fully
appreciate nuclear physics,

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it's useful to have
introduced basic interactions.

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And therefore, this is
the reason for this order.

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And then we'll try to bring
in experimental methods

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with accelerators, colliding
beams, and experimental methods

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on how particles interact
with matter and detectors.

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Again, in this schedule, the
Thanksgiving week is off.

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And we'll use the
last remaining week

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to discuss physics
beyond the standard model

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and the connection to cosmology.

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I said here the title the
schedule will be tuned.

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I very much expect that we have
a little bit slippage in this,

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but there is some
room at the end

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to make sure that
we don't overrun,

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and that I don't give you
too much to learn, to read,

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to watch movies, or do
PSets as we go week by week.

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This is it for this
first recording.

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As always, you can reach out
and ask any sort of question,

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either during the recitation,
office hours, or separate.