Week

Date

Topics covered

1

aug 28-1

geometrical optics: reflection

No HW due this week

No Lab this week

2

sept 4-8

refraction, lenses 

HW#1 due friday

No Lab this week 

Sept 8: Last day to drop

3

sept 11-15

lenses, optical instruments 

HW#2 due friday

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

4

sept 18-22

wave optics: interference; diffraction

HW#3 due friday

LAB 1: Reflection and Refraction

5

sept 25-29

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

HW#4 due friday

LAB 2: Thin Lenses

6

oct 2-6

special theory of relativity

no HW due this week

LAB 3: Polarization

EXAM1: Friday, Oct 6

7

oct 9-13

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

HW#5 due friday

LAB 4: Interference and Diffraction

Topic for web project due: Friday, Oct 13 ……………

8

oct 16-20

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

HW#6 due friday

LAB 5: Bragg Diffraction of Microwaves 

9

oct 23-27

Heisenberg uncertainty; Schroedinger equation and applications 

HW#7 due friday

LAB 6: Oscilloscopes and the Speed of Light

10

oct 30-3

Schroedinger equation and applications

HW#8 due friday

LAB 7: Blackbody Radiation and Stefan Boltzman's Law

Nov 3: Last day to withdraw

11

nov 6-10

atomic physics: Bohr model and Hydrogen atom

HW, see next week

LAB 8: Photoelectric Effect

EXAM2: Friday, Nov 10

12

nov 13-17

H-atom; Pauli's exclusion principle; spin  

HW#9 due friday

LAB 9: Hydrogen Balmer Series

13

nov 20-24

nuclear structure and radioactivity; 

no HW due this week

No Lab this week 

 ...............   Finally ..............Thanksgiving break: Nov  22-24

14

nov 27-1

nuclear reactions, fusion and fission

HW #10 due WEDnesday

LAB 10: Faraday Rotation

Web project due: monday, nov 27 

15

dec 4-8

cosmology

HW#11 due WEDnesday

No Lab this week (make up labs)

Last day of instruction: Dec 8

16

dec 11-15

FINAL: MON Dec 11, 1-3pm       ...... GOOD SUCCESS .......