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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