PHYSICS 4E, SPRING 2009


TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Topics (Chapters in Tipler) Quiz Chapters
1: March 30 Quantization (3) Lecture
2: April 6 Quantization; Rutherford atom (3,4) Chpt. 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
3: April 13 Bohr atom (4) Lecture
4: April 20 Wave properties of particles (5) Chpts.4, 5
5: April 27 Schrodinger Equation (6) Lecture
6: May 4 Schrodinger Eq. (6, 7.1) Chpts. 6, 7.1
7: May 11 Atomic Physics (7) Lecture
8: May 18 Periodic table; kinetic theory (7, 8.1) Chpt. 7
9: May 25 Statistical Physics (8) Lecture
10: June 1 Selected topics in Chpts. 9,10 Ch. 8; Topics in Ch. 9,10