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Date Material Chapter(s) in book ---- -------- ------------------ January 17 (Wed) Intro, Classical Physics, Motion 1 January 18 (Thur) Special Rel. I - MMorely/Einstein 2.1 - 2.3 January 19 (Fri) Special Rel II - Lorentz Transformation 2.5 January 22 (Mon) Special Rel III - Time & Length 2.4 January 24 (Wed) Special Rel IV - Simulteneity 2.4 - 2.6 January 25 (Thur) Special Rel V - Dynamics 2.7 January 26 (Fri) Special Rel VI - Dynamics 2.7 January 29 (Mon) Special Rel VII - Dynamics 2.7 January 31 (Wed) Blackbody Radiation 3.3 February 1 (Thur) Blackbody Radiation 3.3 February 2 (Fri) Photoelectric Effect 3.2 February 5 (Mon) Photoelectric Effect 3.2 February 7 (Wed) Compton Scattering & Pair Production 3.4 & 3.5 February 8 (Thur) Compton Scattering & Pair Production 3.4 & 3.5 February 9 (Fri) Waves / diffraction & interference 4.1 February 12 (Mon) Electron diffraction & interference 4.1 February 14 (Wed) Bragg diffraction 4.1 February 15 (Thur) Brehmstrahlung (Exam #1 Given) February 16 (Fri) Q & A Session for Exam #1 February 19 (Mon) Waves & Fourier (Exam #1 Due) 4.2 - 4.5 February 21 (Wed) Uncertainty Relation 4.2 - 4.5 February 22 (Thur) Probability and Normalization 4.4 - 4.6 February 23 (Fri) Differential Equations - general February 26 (Mon) The Schroedinger Wave Equation (SWE) 5.1 - 5.3 February 28 (Wed) The Schroedinger Wave Equation (SWE) 5.1 - 5.3 March 1 (Thur) The SWE - free particles 5.4 March 2 (Fri) The SWE - 1-D infinite square well 5.4 March 5 (Mon) The SWE - 2-D infinite square well 5.4 March 7 (Wed) The SWE - steps and barriers 5.7 March 8 (Thur) The SWE - steps and barriers 5.7 March 9 (Fri) The SWE - 1-D finite square well 5.4 - 5.7 March 12-16 (Mon - Fri) NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK! March 19 (Mon) The SWE - 1-D finite square well 5.4 - 5.7 March 21 (Wed) The SWE - Harmonic Oscillator 5.4 - 5.7 March 22 (Thur) Exam #2 -- in class March 23 (Fri) Radiation: BBR / E=nhn & lines 3.3 & 6.4 March 26 (Mon) Atomic Models 6.1 - 6.3 March 28 (Wed) Bohr's Model 6.5 March 29 (Thur) Bohr's Model 6.5 March 30 (Fri) Bohr's Model 6.5 April 2 (Mon) H atom from SWE 7 April 4 (Wed) H atom from SWE 7 April 5 (Thur) H atom from SWE 7 April 6 (Fri) H atom from SWE 7 April 9 (Mon) Other one particle systems from SWE 7 & 9 April 11 (Wed) Electron Spin 7.5 - 7.8 April 12 (Thur) Electron Spin 7.5 - 7.8 April 13 (Fri) Classical PDF (Maxwell-Boltzmann) 10 April 16 (Mon) Classical PDF (Maxwell-Boltzmann) 10 April 18 (Wed) Quantum PDFs 10 April 19 (Thur) Quantum PDFs 10 April 20 (Fri) Nuclear Physics (Exam #3 Given) 12 April 23 (Mon) Nuclear Physics 12 April 25 (Wed) Nuclear Physics 12 April 26 (Thur) Project Presentations (Exam #3 Due) April 27 (Fri) Project Presentations April 30 (Mon) Project Presentations May 4 (Fri) Final Exam (in-class)