Physics 2170
Class Calendar

reading quiz: Assignments
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Week # (Monday)

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

1. 8/27

Class Intro Galilean relativity
reading quiz: secs 36.1, 36.2		 Postulates of special relativity
reading quiz: sec 36.3

2. 9/3

Labor Day

Reference frames
reading quiz: sec. 36.4
10a Wed: Online participation 1
10a Wed: Homework 1 due

Simultaneity in special relativity
reading quiz: sec. 36.5

3. 9/10

Time dilation
reading quiz: sec 36.6

[class canceled]

10a Wed: Online participation 2
10a Wed: Homework 2 due

Length contraction
reading quiz: sec. 36.7

4. 9/17

Geometry of spacetime
reading quiz: sec. 36.8

Velocity and momentum in special relativity
reading quiz: sec. 36.9

10a Wed: Online participation 3
10a Wed: Homework 3 due

Energy and "E=mc2"
reading quiz: sec 36.10

5. 9/24

Review for midterm exam (no reading quiz: )
exam 1: Tues 9/25; 7:30p

Tues: Online participation 4
Homework 4 due at Exam

E/M Waves 1
EM Waves 2
Reading Quiz: 20.1-20.6, skip longitudinal waves

6. 10/1

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 38.1-38.3.
(well not today owing to the late posting)

 

Photoelectric effect -
Reading Quiz: 24.3.


Online participation 5
Homework 5 (10a)

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

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

7. 10/8

Rutherford Scattering & Atomic Spectra

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

Applications of spectra & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 38.5

Online participation 6 (10a)
Homework 6 (10a)

Radiative Transitions & Lasers -
Reading Quiz: 41.8.

8. 10/15

Balmer Series

Reading Quiz: 24.1, 38.6-7

Bohr Model.

Limitations of Bohr model & deBroglie wave model -
Online participation 7 (10a)
Homework 7 (10a)

deBroglie wave model -

Double Slit
Reading Quiz: 24.4, 38.4., 22.1-3

9. 10/22

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
Homework 8 (10a)

Finish Diff Eq/ Schrodinger equation for free particle -
Reading Quiz: 40.1-2..

10. 10/29

Schrodinger equation for free particle and start PE

Potential energy.

Infinite square well -
Reading Quiz: 40.3-4 
Homework 9 (10a)

Fiinite square well -
Reading Quiz: 40.5-7.

11. 11/5

review/ exam
exam 2: Tues 11/6 : 7:30p 		Finite well; tunneling
Homework 10 (10a) 		tunneling / Alpha decay -
Reading Quiz: 40.9-10, 42.3, p.1369

12. 11/12

STM/ Applications of tunneling.

 Transmission & Reflection; Superposition & measurement.
Homework 11 (10a)
Measurement, Expectation Values and the Cat!
13. 11/19  
Fall Break
 

14. 11/26

Hydrogen atom -
Reading Quiz: 41.1-2

Multielectron atoms -
Reading : 41.4-5
Homework 12 (10a)

Molecular bonding & color (2 to many atoms).
Reading Quiz: 41.4-5

15. 12/3

Excited States and Color -
Reading Quiz: 41.6-7

Solids & conductivity.
Homework 13 (10a)

conductivity, trasistors & semiconductors

16. 12/10

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

Spin & MRI -
Homework 14 (10a)

review

Dec 19 : Final Exam, 10:30a - Help Room