| Week of | Monday | Tuesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 Sept. 20 | Review of classical physics | ||
| Week 1 Sept. 27 |
Classical relativity, Michelson-Morley experiment
(sects. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 in textbook) |
Special relativity postulates; time dilation, length contraction (sect. 2.4) | Simultaneity, Lorentz transformations, velocity addition, examples (2.5, 2.6) |
| Week 2 Oct. 4 | Quiz 1 | Relativistic momentum, kinetic energy, total and rest energy (2.7, 2.8) |
Momentum and energy conservation fission, fusion (2.8, 2.9, 13.4, 13.5) |
| Week 3 Oct. 11 | Review of relativity | Interference and diffraction; photoelectric effect (3.1, 3.2) | Thermal radiation, classical and quantum (3.3) |
| Week 4 Oct. 18 | Quiz 2 | Compton effect; other photon processes (3.4, 3.5, 3.6) | Particles or waves; de Broglie waves (4.1, 4.2) |
| Week 5 Oct. 25 | Double slit experiment with particles (4.3, 4.4) | Uncertainty relations; wave packets (4.5, 4.6) | Probability interpretation of quantum waves (4.7, 5.3) |
| Week 6 Nov. 1 | Quiz 3 | Schrodinger equation; free particle solution; infinite well (5.3, 5.4) | Finite well; 2D well; harmonic oscillator (5.4, 5.5) |
| Week 7 Nov. 8 | Steps and barriers; tunneling (5.6) | Rutherford experiment; atomic spectra (6.1, 6.2 (except Thomson model), 6.3) | Veterans Day Holiday |
| Week 8 Nov. 15 | Quiz 4 | Bohr model of the atom (6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8) | Hydrogen atom (7.1, 7.2) |
| Week 9 Nov. 22 | Hydrogen atom (7.3, 7.4. 7.5) | Electron spin, Zeeman effect (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9) | Thanksgiving holiday |
| Week 10 Nov. 29 | Quiz 5 | Many-electron atoms; periodic table (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5) | Molecules, covalent bond (9.1, 9.2) |