Physics 2D, Fall quarter 2021
Schedule of lecture topics (tentative) and of quizzes (definite)
Week of Monday Tuesday Thursday
Week 0 Sept. 20 Review of classical physics
Week 1 Sept. 27 Classical relativity, Michelson-Morley experiment
(sects. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 in textbook)
Special relativity postulates; time dilation, length contraction (sect. 2.4) Simultaneity, Lorentz transformations, velocity addition, examples (2.5, 2.6)
Week 2 Oct. 4 Quiz 1 Relativistic momentum, kinetic energy, total and rest energy (2.7, 2.8) Momentum and energy conservation
fission, fusion (2.8, 2.9, 13.4, 13.5)
Week 3 Oct. 11 Review of relativity Interference and diffraction; photoelectric effect (3.1, 3.2) Thermal radiation, classical and quantum (3.3)
Week 4 Oct. 18 Quiz 2 Compton effect; other photon processes (3.4, 3.5, 3.6) Particles or waves; de Broglie waves (4.1, 4.2)
Week 5 Oct. 25 Double slit experiment with particles (4.3, 4.4) Uncertainty relations; wave packets (4.5, 4.6) Probability interpretation of quantum waves (4.7, 5.3)
Week 6 Nov. 1 Quiz 3 Schrodinger equation; free particle solution; infinite well (5.3, 5.4) Finite well; 2D well; harmonic oscillator (5.4, 5.5)
Week 7 Nov. 8 Steps and barriers; tunneling (5.6) Rutherford experiment; atomic spectra (6.1, 6.2 (except Thomson model), 6.3) Veterans Day Holiday
Week 8 Nov. 15 Quiz 4 Bohr model of the atom (6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8) Hydrogen atom (7.1, 7.2)
Week 9 Nov. 22 Hydrogen atom (7.3, 7.4. 7.5) Electron spin, Zeeman effect (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9) Thanksgiving holiday
Week 10 Nov. 29 Quiz 5 Many-electron atoms; periodic table (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5) Molecules, covalent bond (9.1, 9.2)