Physics 2170

Lecture Notes
in PDF format

 

Week Mon Wed Fri
week1
day 1: Introduction
day 2: Galilean Relativity
day 3: Motivation for SR
week2
Labor Day
day 4: Clocks and Metersticks
day 5: Simultaneity
week 3

day 6: Time Dilation

no class

day 7: time dialation (the math)

week 4

day 8:Lorentz xforms

day 9: spacetime

day 10: energy & momentum

week 5

day 11: review

day 12: E/M waves review

day 13:E/M Waves 2

week 6

day 14: preclass notes
photoelectric effect

day 15: preclass:
finishing photo-electric

day16: preclass
models & probability

week 7

day 17: prelcass
rutherford and atoms

day 18: pre-class:
spectra

day19: preclass
lasers

week 8

day 20:preclass
finish lasers; Balmer

day 21:preclass
Bohr & de Broglie

day 22:preclass
electron interference

week 9

day 23: preclass
waves & probability

day 24: preclass:
Heisenberg and Schrodinger

day 25:preclass
Schrodinger & Potential

week 10

day 26:preclass
free particle, and particle in a box

day 27:preclass
particle in a box and finite well

day28: preclass
finite well and tunneling

week 11

day 29: review

day 30:preclass
tunneling

day31: preclass
finish tunneling

week 12

day 32:prelcass
alpha decay/ STMs
supplementary PPT notes on shocks

day 33: preclass
measurement

day 34: preclass
expectation value, the CAT!, and quantum computers

week 13

day 35: preclass
H-atom

day 36: preclass
finish H-atom; start multi-elec.atoms

day 37:preclass
finish atoms; bonding

week 14

day 38: preclass
color

day 39: preclass
band structure (conductors, insulators)
supplemental PPT notes

day 40: prelcass
Doping, N-P junctions: transistors (optional)

week 15

day 41: preclass
finish PN; start Spin

day42: preclass
Spin, MRI, start Review
(optional notes on MRI in PPT)

Day 43: review