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| Month | Day | Lecture Topic | Reading | HW Due | Labs | Notes / Deadlines | ||
| June | 25 | Introduction | #1 Start | |||||
| What's wrong with Netwon? | skim chapter 2 | |||||||
| 27 | de Broglie Waves | 3.0-3.6 | #1, 2 | The Photo-Electric | ||||
| Matter Waves | Effect | |||||||
| 29 | Uncertainty | 3.7-3.9, 4.3-4.5 | #3, 4 | |||||
| The Bohr Atom | #1 Due | |||||||
| July | 2 | More on the Atom | 4.6-4.8, 5.0-5.3 | #2 Start --- 3.4 | Term Paper Proposal Due | |||
| Schrodinger's Equation | Add/Drop deadline is the 2nd | |||||||
| 3 | Working with Wavefunctions | 5.4-5.7 | #5 | Group and Phase | Because the 4th is a | |||
| Review / Special Topics | Velocity | holiday, Tuesday the 3rd will | ||||||
| 6 | Square Wells and Tunneling | 5.8-5.10 | #6, 7 | be half lecture, half review. | ||||
| Reflection, Harmonic Oscillators | Reflection*, 5.11 | #2 Due | ||||||
| 9 | Exam Review | #8, 9 | #3,4 Start | Term Paper Outline Due | ||||
| Solving the Hydrogen Atom | 6.0-6.5 | |||||||
| 11 | More on the Hydrogen Atom | 6.6-6.8 | #10 | The Square Well | Exam #1 in testing center | |||
| Selection Rules and Zeeman | 6.9-6.10 | and Stationary States | July 11-13 (ch 3-5) | |||||
| 13 | Organizing the Elements | 7.0-7.4 | #11 | |||||
| Properties of Multi-electron Atoms | 7.5-7.6 | #3,4 Due | ||||||
| 16 | Angular Momentum | 7.7-7.8 | #5,6 Start | |||||
| Molecules | 8.0-8.4 | Presentations on Tuesday | ||||||
| 18 | Complex Molecules, Spectra | 8.5, 8.8 | #12, 13 | Hydrogen Spectrum | ||||
| Classical Statistics | 9.0-9.3 | and Covalent Bonds | ||||||
| 20 | Quantum Statistics, R-Jeans Eq. | 9.4-9.5 | #14, 15 | |||||
| Planck Radiation Law | 9.6 | #5,6 Due | ||||||
| 23 | Einstein Coefficients, the Laser | 9.7, 4.9 | #16 | The 24th is a holiday | ||||
| More Applications of Q. Stat. | 9.9-9.10 | |||||||
| 25 | Exam Review | |||||||
| Review / Special Topics | ||||||||
| 27 | Solids | 10.0-10.3 | #17, 18 | Exam #2 in testing center | ||||
| July 27-30 (ch 6-9) | ||||||||
| 30 | Van der Waals and Metal Bonds | 10.4-10.5 | #7,8 Start | |||||
| Band Theory, PN Junctions | 10.6-10.7** | |||||||
| Aug | 1 | Superconductivity | 10.9-10.10 | #19, 20 | Band Theory and | First Term Paper Due | ||
| The Nucleus | 11.2-11.4 | Light Emitting Diodes | ||||||
| 3 | Liquid Drop and Shell Models | 11.5-11.6 | #21, 22 | |||||
| Meson Theory, Radioactivity | 11.7, 12.0-12.1 | #7,8 Due | ||||||
| 6 | Half Life, Radioactive Series | 12.2-12.3 | ||||||
| Decay Mechanisms | 12.4-12.6 | |||||||
| 8 | Nuclear Reactions | 12.7-12.8 | #23, 24 | |||||
| Fission | 12.9-12.10 | |||||||
| 10 | Fusion | 12.11-12.12 | #25, 26 | |||||
| Elementary Particles | 13.0-13.3 | |||||||
| 13 | Quantum Numbers and Quarks | 13.4-13.5 | #27, 28 | Final Term Paper Due | ||||
| Field Bosons, Beyond Std. Model | 13.6-13.9 | |||||||
| Exam Review | Time and Date TBA | |||||||
| 16 | FINAL EXAM | Thursday, 9 to 11 a.m. | FINAL EXAM | |||||
*Supplemental reading material available online
** Only read up to where the section on tunnel diodes begins