| Week of | Monday | Tuesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 Sept. 28 |
Introduction, course overview.
Light as an em wave. Galilean transformation. | ||
| Week 1 Oct. 5 | Newtonian relativity, special relativity postulates | Time dilation, length contraction, Michelson-Morley experiment, twin paradox | Simultaneity, Lorentz transformations, examples |
| Week 2 Oct. 12 | Quiz 1 | Relativistic momentum, acceleration, kinetic energy, total and rest energy |
Momentum and energy conservation fission, fusion |
| Week 3 Oct. 19 | Review of relativity | Blackbody radiation, Stefan law, Wien displacement law |
Planck's radiation law |
| Week 4 Oct. 26 | Quiz 2 | Photoelectric effect; X-rays and Compton effect | Compton effect; Bragg scattering; Faraday electrolysis; Thomson experiment |
| Week 5 Nov. 2 | Rutherford atom | Spectroscopy; Bohr atom | Bohr atom, Franck-Hertz experiment; de Broglie relations |
| Week 6 Nov. 9 | Quiz 3 | Davisson-Germer experiment; wave packets, phase and group velocity | Heisenberg uncertainty relations, probabilistic interpretation of the wave function, double slit experiment |
| Week 7 Nov. 16 | Schrodinger equation in 1 dimension | Particle in a box, finite square well, harmonic oscillator | Operators, expectation values, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues |
| Week 8 Nov. 23 | Quiz 4 | Barriers, tunneling phenomena, alpha decay, STM | Thanksgiving holiday |
| Week 9 Nov. 30 | Quantum mechanics in 3 dimensions, particle in 3d box | Hydrogen atom | Hydrogen atom, electron spin |
| Week 10 Dec. 7 | Quiz 5 | Atomic structure | Periodic table; review |