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| Month | Day | Lecture Topic | Reading | P. Phor. Phn. | HW Due | Labs | Notes / Deadlines | |
| Sept | 3 | Intro/Fluid Statics | ||||||
| 5 | More Fluid Statics | Syllabus, 14.0-14.4 | ||||||
| 8 | Fluid Dynamics | 14.5-14.7 | #1 | #1 Start | ||||
| 10 | Temperature | 19.0-19.5 | #2 | Pressure | ||||
| 12 | Heat | 20.0-20.3 | #3 | #1 Due | ||||
| 15 | Work from Heat | 20.4-20.6 | #4 | #2 Start | ||||
| 17 | Heat Transfer | 20.7 | #5 | Specific Heat | ||||
| 19 | Ideal Gas | 21.0-21.2, 21.4 | #6 | #2 Due | ||||
| 22 | Maxwell-Boltzman Gas | 21.3, 21.5-21.7 | #7 | |||||
| 24 | Heat Engines | 22.0-22.1, 22.5 | #8 | |||||
| 26 | Engines | 22.2-22.4 | #9 | |||||
| 29 | Entropy | 22.6-22.7 | #10 | |||||
| Oct | 1 | What is Entropy? | 22.8 | #11 | ||||
| 3 | Waves | 16.0-16.2 | #12 | |||||
| 6 | Waves on a String | 16.3-16.5 | 1 | #13 | Exam #1 Oct 6-8 | |||
| 8 | The Wave Equation | 16.6 | 2.0-2.3 | #14 | Covers HW 1-12 | |||
| 10 | Reflection and Transmission | 3.0-3.5 | #15 | Homecoming Activity | ||||
| 13 | Sound Waves | 17.1-17.3 | 5 | #16 | #3 Start | |||
| 15 | Doppler Efct, Superposition | 17.4, 18.1 | #17 | Dispersion | ||||
| 17 | Standing Waves | 18.2-18.3 | 4 | #18 | #3 Due | |||
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| 20 | Resonance, Beats | 18.4-18.5, 18.7 | #4,5 Start | Optical Society | ||||
| 22 | Fourier Transforms | 6.0-6.5 | Stand. Waves | Mtg. Oct 19-23 | ||||
| 24 | More FT | 6.6-6.7 | #19,20,21 | #4,5 Due | ||||
| 27 | Music | 7 | #22 | #6 Start | Proposal Due | |||
| 29 | Light, Reflection, Refraction | 35.1-35.5 | #23 | Fourier Transforms | ||||
| 31 | Huygen, Fermat, Dispersion | 35.6-35.9 | #24 | #6 Due | Exam #2 Oct 30-Nov 1 | |||
| Covers HW 13-23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 3 | Mirrors | 36.1-36.2 | #25 | ||||
| 5 | Lenses | 36.3-36.4 | #26 | |||||
| 7 | Aberrations, Imaging Devices | 36.5-36.7 | #27 | |||||
| 10 | More Devices | 36.8-36.10 | #28 | #7 | ||||
| 12 | Wave Nature of Light | 37.1-37.4 | #29 | Telescope | ||||
| 14 | More on Light Waves | 37.5-37.7 | #30 | #7 Due | ||||
| 17 | Diffraction | 38.1-38.2 | #31 | #8 Start | Prog. Report Due | |||
| 19 | More Diffraction | 38.3-38.4 | #32 | Interferometer | ||||
| 21 | Polarization | 38.5-38.6 | #33 | #8 Due | ||||
| 24 | N-dimensional Waves | 8 | #34 | #9,10 Start | ||||
| 25 | Holography | 9 | #35 | Diffr, Brwstrs Angle | Friday Instruction | |||
| Thnksgvng Break | ||||||||
| Dec | 1 | Introduction to Relativity | 39.0-39.3 | #36 | Exam #3 Dec 2-4 | |||
| 3 | Special Relativity | 39.4 | #37 | #11* Holography | Covers HW 24-36 | |||
| 5 | Relativistic Transformations | 39.5-39.7 | #38 | #9,10 Due | ||||
| 8 | E=mc2 | 39.8-39.9 | #39 | |||||
| 10 | General Relativity | 11.0-11.3 | #40 | Project Due | ||||
| 11 | NOTE: even though this is a Thursday, HOMEWORK IS DUE! | #41 | ||||||
| 15 | FINAL EXAM | Monday | 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | FINAL EXAM | ||||
*Lab 11 is a special lab. It will be done in groups. You will need to sign up for a time slot to do this lab.