| Week of | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 3 | Introduction, overview, light as an electromagnetic wave |
Classical Doppler shift, Newtonian relativity |
Special relativity postulates, time dilation, length contraction |
Simultaneity, Lorentz transformation, examples |
| Jan. 10 | Lorentz velocity transformation; relativistic momentum |
Relativistic acceleration, kinetic energy, total and rest energy |
Causality, space-time interval, momentum and energy conservation |
Quiz 1 |
| Jan. 17 | Holiday | Fission, fusion | Blackbody radiation, Stefan law, Wien displacement law |
Derivation of Planck's law |
| Jan. 24 | Derivation of Wien and Stefan
laws from Planck's law ; Photoelectric effect |
X-rays and Compton effect | Compton effect, Bragg scattering, Faraday electrolysis |
Quiz 2 |
| Jan. 31 | Thomson experiment; Rutherford atom | Spectroscopy; Bohr atom | Bohr atom | Quiz 3 |
| Feb. 7 | Franck-Hertz experiment; de Broglie relations |
Davisson-Germer experiment; wave packets |
Phase and group velocity Heisenberg uncertainty relations |
Gaussian wave packet; zero point motion: hydrogen atom, harmonic oscillator |
| Feb. 14 | Probabilistic interpretation of the wave function; double slit experiment |
Schrodinger equation in 1 dimension | Particle in a box | Quiz 4 |
| Feb. 21 | Holiday | Finite square well; harmonic oscillator | Operators, expectation values, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues |
Barriers, tunneling phenomena; &alpha decay |
| Feb. 28 | Field emission. Quantum mechanics in 3 dimensions, particle in 3D box |
Hydrogen atom | Hydrogen atom | Quiz 5 |
| March 7 | Electron spin | Atomic structure | Periodic table | Review |