Week # (Monday)

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

1. 1/15

MLK Day

Day 1 Intro

EM Waves -

2. 1/22

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

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 38.1-38.3.

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 24.3.

3. 1/29

Finish Photoelectric Effect / Modeling in Physics (possibly start probability)

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

Rutherford Scattering & Atomic Spectra

4. 2/5

Atomic Spectra & Discharge Lamps
Reading Quiz: 37.1-3 & 37.6-9.

Applications of spectra & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 38.5

Radiative Transitions & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 41.8.

5. 2/12

Exam review 

Exam#1 Tues 7:30pm

Balmer Series

Bohr Model.
Reading Quiz: 24.1, 38.6-7

6. 2/19

Limitations of Bohr model & deBroglie wave model -

deBroglie wave model -
Reading Quiz: 24.4, 38.4.
HW 5 online due Tues midnight; Long Answ. in class Wed
Online paricipation Tues midnight

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

7. 2/26

Wave functions & Probability -
Reading Quiz: 39.3-4.

Wave packets & uncertainity principle; start diff Eqs-
Reading Quiz: 39.5-39.6
Reading (no quiz): 21.1-3
HW 6 online due Tues midnight; Long Answ. in class Wed
Online paricipation Tues midnight

8. 3/5

Schrodinger equation for free particle and start PE-

Potential energy.
HW 7 online due Tues midnight; Long Answ. in class Wed
Online paricipation Tues midnight

9. 3/12

Exam Review
HW 8 - short / review online due Monday midnight;
Online paricipation

Exam#2 Tues 7:30 pm

Fiinite square well -
Reading Quiz: 40.5-7.

Tunneling tutorial

10. 3/19

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

STM/ Applications of tunneling.

11. 3/26

Spring Break

12. 4/2

Measurement & Expectation Values.

Hydrogen atom -
Reading Quiz: 41.1-2
HW 10 Due at midnight WED
Online paricipation

Multielectron atoms -
Reading Quiz: 41.3-5

Molecular bonding & solids (2 to many atoms).
HW 11 Due at midnight Tues
Online paricipation

Excited States and Color -
Reading Quiz: 41.6-7

Solids & conductivity.

14. 4/16

Conductivity;semiconductors, photoconductors, copiers
HW 12 Due at midnight Tues
Online paricipation

Conductivity;semiconductors, photoconductors, copiers

Semi-conductors, diodes, transistors.

15. 4/23

Spin & MRI:
Reading Quiz: 41.3, 1375-6
HW 13 Due at midnight Tues
Online paricipation

Spin & MRI -

EPR Paradox

16. 4/30

EPR Paradox
HW 14 Due at midnight Tues
Online paricipation

Exam review

Last class- Exam review.