PHYSICS 4E, SPRING 2016


TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

Week starting Monday Week topics and (Chapters in Tipler)
1: March 28 Lecture Blackbody radiation (3) ; Statistical physics (8)
2: April 4 Lecture Quantization (3) ; Atomic spectra (4)
3: April 11 Quiz 1 Rutherford and Bohr atom (4)
4: April 18 Lecture Wave properties of particles (5)
5: April 25 Quiz 2 Schrodinger Equation (6)
6: May 2 Lecture Schrodinger Equation (6), start Chpt. (7)
7: May 9 Quiz 3 Atomic Physics (7)
8: May 16 Lecture Atomic Physics (7) Statistical Physics (8)
9: May 23 Quiz 4 Statistical Physics (8), Molecules (9)
10: May 30 Take-home exam Molecules (9), Solids (10)
11: June 6 Final exam