Week

Date

Topics covered

1

aug 25-29

geometrical optics: reflection

No HW due this week

No Lab this week

2

sept 1-5

refraction, lenses 

HW#1 due friday

No Lab this week 

Last day to drop on friday

3

sept 8-14

lenses, optical instruments 

HW#2 due friday

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

4

sept 15-19

wave optics: interference; diffraction

HW#3 due friday

LAB 1: Reflection and Refraction

5

sept 22-26

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

HW#4 due friday

LAB 2: Thin Lenses

6

sept 29-3

special theory of relativity

no HW due this week

LAB 3: Polarization

EXAM1: Friday, Oct 3

7

oct 6-10

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

HW#5 due friday

LAB 4: Interference and Diffraction

8

oct 13-17

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 13 ……………

9

oct 20-24

Heisenberg uncertainty; Schroedinger equation and applications 

HW#7 due friday

LAB 6: Oscilloscopes and the Speed of Light

10

oct 27-31

Schroedinger equation and applications

HW#8 due friday

LAB 7: Blackbody Radiation and Stefan Boltzman's Law

Last day to withdraw on friday

11

nov 3-7

atomic physics: Bohr model and Hydrogen atom

No HW due this week

LAB 8: Photoelectric Effect

EXAM2: Friday, Nov 7

12

nov 10-14

H-atom; Pauli's exclusion principle; spin  

HW#9 due friday

LAB 9: Hydrogen Balmer Series

13

nov 17-21

nuclear structure and radioactivity; 

HW #10 due friday

LAB 10: Faraday Rotation or Quantum measurement

Web project due: monday, nov 17

14

nov 24-28

nuclear reactions 

No HW due this week

No Lab this week 

 ...............   Finally ..............Thanksgiving break: Nov  26-28

15

dec 1-5

fusion and fission

HW#11 due WEDnesday

No Lab this week

Last day of instruction: Dec 5

16

dec 9-13

FINAL: Tue Dec 9, 1-3pm       ...... GOOD SUCCESS .......