| Week of | Tuesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 Jan. 6 |
Review of classical physics (Chpt. 1); Classical
relativity (2.1); Michelson-Morley experiment (2.2) |
Special relativity postulates; time dilation, length contraction ( 2.3, 2.4) | Simultaneity, Lorentz transformations, velocity addition, examples (2.5, 2.6) |
| Week 2 Jan. 13 |
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) |
Quiz 1 |
| Week 3 Jan. 20 |
Review of relativity; Interference and diffraction; photoelectric effect (3.1, 3.2) | Thermal radiation, classical and quantum (3.3) | Compton effect; other photon processes (3.4, 3.5, 3.6) |
| Week 4 Jan. 27 |
Particles or waves; de Broglie waves (4.1, 4.2) (4.3, 4.4) | Uncertainty relations, Heisenberg (4.3, 4.4) | Quiz 2 |
| Week 5 Feb. 3 |
Wave packets (4.5, 4.6)
Probability interpretation of quantum waves (4.7, 5.3) |
Schrodinger equation; free particle solution; infinite well (5.3, part of 5.4) | Schrodinger equation; finite well; 2D well (5.3, 5.4) |
| Week 6 Feb. 10 |
Harmonic oscillator (5.5) | Steps and barriers; tunneling (5.6) | Quiz 3 |
| Week 7 Feb. 17 |
Atoms, Thomson model, Rutherford experiment (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) |
Atomic spectra (6.4)
Bohr model of the atom (6.5) |
Bohr model, correspondence principle (6.6, 6.7, 6.8) |
| Week 8 Feb. 24 |
Hydrogen atom (7.1, 7.2) | Hydrogen atom (7.3, 7.4, 7.5) | Quiz 4 |
| Week 9 Mar. 3 |
Electron spin, Zeeman effect (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9) | Many-electron atoms; periodic table (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5) | Molecules, covalent bond (9.1, 9.2) |
| Week 10 Mar. 10 |
Electrons in solids; conductors, superconductors, semiconductors (11.3, 11.4, 11.5) | Course review | Quiz 5 |