Week

Date

Topics covered

1

aug 26-30

geometrical optics: reflection

No HW due this week

No Lab this week

2

sept 2-6

refraction, lenses 

HW#1 due friday

No Lab this week 

Sept 6: Last day to drop

3

sept 9-13

lenses, optical instruments 

HW#2 due friday

LAB 0: Introduction to the oscilloscope and measuring the frequency of a tuning fork 

4

sept 16-20

wave optics: interference; diffraction

HW#3 due friday

LAB 1: Reflection and Refraction

5

sept 23-27

deficiencies of classical physics; interferometer and Michelson Morley; postulates of special relativity

HW#4 due friday

LAB 2: Thin Lenses

6

sept 30-4

special theory of relativity

no HW due this week

LAB 3: Polarization

EXAM1: Friday, Oct 4

7

oct 7-11

collision; particle properties of em radiation: photoelectric effect; thermal radiation (Planck)

HW#5 due friday

LAB 4: Interference and Diffraction

8

oct 14-18

Compton effect; wavelike properties of particles: deBroglie; uncertainty; wave packet

HW#6 due friday

LAB 5: Bragg Diffraction of Microwaves 

Topic for web project due: Monday, Oct 14 ……………

9

oct 21-25

Heisenberg uncertainty; Schroedinger equation and applications 

HW#7 due friday

LAB 6: Oscilloscopes and the Speed of Light

10

oct 28-1

Schroedinger equation and applications

HW#8 due friday

LAB 7: Blackbody Radiation and Stefan Boltzman's Law

Nov 1: Last day to withdraw

11

nov 4-8

atomic physics: Bohr model and Hydrogen atom

No HW due this week

LAB 8: Photoelectric Effect

EXAM2: Friday, Nov 8

12

nov 11-15

H-atom; Pauli's exclusion principle; spin  

HW#9 due friday

LAB 9: Hydrogen Balmer Series

13

nov 18-22

nuclear structure and radioactivity; 

HW #10 due friday

LAB 10: Faraday Rotation

Web project due: monday, nov 18

14

nov 25-29

nuclear reactions 

No HW due this week

No Lab this week 

 ...............   Finally ..............Thanksgiving break: Nov  27-29

15

dec 2-6

fusion and fission

HW#11 due WEDnesday

No Lab this week (make up labs)

Last day of instruction: Dec 6

16

dec 9-13

FINAL: MON Dec 19, 1-3pm       ...... GOOD SUCCESS .......