Week # (Monday)

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

1. 8/28

Introduction

EM Waves -

EM Waves
Reading Quiz: 20.1-20.6, skip longitudinal waves

2. 9/4

No Class - Labor Day

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 38.1-38.3.

Deadline for the CLASS extra-credit survey MIDNIGHT tonight.

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 24.3.
HW 2 due at noon. Long answer due at start of class Friday.

3. 9/11

Finish Photoelectric Effect (possibly start probability)
Online participation #2 due Monday at noon

Probability & Randomness -
Wave particle duality
Reading Quiz: 39.1-2.
.

Rutherford Scattering & Atomic Spectra

Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

4. 9/18

Atomic Spectra & Discharge Lamps
Reading Quiz: 37.1-3 & 37.6-9.
Online participation due Monday noon.

Applications of spectra & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 38.5

Radiative Transitions & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 41.8.
Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

5. 9/25

Exam review 

Online participation due Monday noon.

Exam#1 Tues 7:30pm

Balmer Series
Reading Quiz: 24.1, 38.6-7

Bohr Model.
Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

6. 10/2

NO CLASS- Yom Kippur

Online participation due at noon

Limitations of Bohr model & deBroglie wave model -

deBroglie wave model -
Reading Quiz: 24.4, 38.4.

Double Slit & Davisson-Germer experiment -
Reading Quiz: 22.1-3

Online homework due by noon Long answer due in class (if assigned)

7. 10/9

Wave functions & Probability -
Reading Quiz: 39.3-4. Online participation due at noon.

Wave packets & uncertainity principle -
Reading Quiz: 39.5-39.6.

8. 10/16

Schrodinger equation for free particle - Reading Quiz: 40.1-2.. Online participation due at noon

Potential energy.

9. 10/23

Exam Review

Online participation due at noon

Exam#2 Tues 7:30 pm

Fiinite square well -
Reading Quiz: 40.5-7.

Tunneling tutorial
Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

10. 10/30

Alpha decay -
Reading Quiz: 40.9-10, 42.3, p.1369

Online participation due at noon

STM/ Applications of tunneling.

11. 11/6

Measurement & Expectation Values.
Online participation due at noon

Hydrogen atom -
Reading Quiz: 41.1-2

Multielectron atoms -
Reading Quiz: 41.3-5 .
Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

12. 11/13

Molecular bonding & solids (2 to many atoms).
Online participation due at noon

Excited States and Color -
Reading Quiz: 41.6-7

Solids & conductivity.
Online homework due by noon. Long answer due in class (if assigned)

14. 11/27

Exam Review
Online participation due at noon

Exam #3: Tues 7:30p

Conductivity;semiconductors, photoconductors, copiers

Semi-conductors, diodes, transistors.

15. 12/4

Spin & MRI:
Online homework due by noon with LongAnswer
Online participation due at noon

Spin & MRI -
Reading Quiz: 41.3, 1375-6

EPR Paradox

16. 12/11

EPR Paradox
Online homework due by noon.
Online participation due at noon

Exam review

Last class- Exam review.