Physics 2D, Fall quarter 2020
Schedule of lecture topics (tentative) and of quizzes (definite)
Week of Monday Tuesday Thursday
Week 0 Sept. 28 Introduction, course overview.
Light as an em wave. Galilean transformation.
Week 1 Oct. 5 Newtonian relativity, special relativity postulates Time dilation, length contraction, Michelson-Morley experiment, twin paradox Simultaneity, Lorentz
transformations, examples
Week 2 Oct. 12 Quiz 1 Relativistic momentum, acceleration, kinetic energy, total and rest energy Momentum and energy conservation
fission, fusion
Week 3 Oct. 19 Review of relativity Blackbody radiation, Stefan law,
Wien displacement law
Planck's radiation law
Week 4 Oct. 26 Quiz 2 Photoelectric effect; X-rays and Compton effect Compton effect; Bragg scattering; Faraday electrolysis; Thomson experiment
Week 5 Nov. 2 Rutherford atom Spectroscopy; Bohr atom Bohr atom, Franck-Hertz experiment; de Broglie relations
Week 6 Nov. 9 Quiz 3 Davisson-Germer experiment; wave packets, phase and group velocity Heisenberg uncertainty relations, probabilistic interpretation of the wave function, double slit experiment
Week 7 Nov. 16 Schrodinger equation in 1 dimension Particle in a box, finite square well, harmonic oscillator Operators, expectation values, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues
Week 8 Nov. 23 Quiz 4 Barriers, tunneling phenomena, alpha decay, STM Thanksgiving holiday
Week 9 Nov. 30 Quantum mechanics in 3 dimensions, particle in 3d box Hydrogen atom Hydrogen atom, electron spin
Week 10 Dec. 7 Quiz 5 Atomic structure Periodic table; review