Week # (Monday)

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Day 1 Intro

Review Math & EM Waves
Optional review readings:
Knight Chaps 26,27,35 (v2 of text) or
Knight Chaps 25,26,34 (v1 of text)

EM Waves -
Reading : 20.1-20.6,
skip longitudinal waves

Waves & Superposition
Reading : 21.1-3 & 21.5-7 & 22.1-.2 , 22.6

Photoelectric effect -
Reading : 38.1-38.3 (ver 1 text) or

Reading : 39.1-39.3 (ver 2 text)
HW1 due (Tues midnight) & Wed before class

Photoelectric effect -
Reading : 24.3. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 25.3. (v2 of text)

No Class / Labor Day

Finish Photoelectric Effect / Modeling in Physics
(catch up on reading : )
HW2 due (Tues midnight) & Wed before class

Atomic Spectra

Reading : 37.1, 37.6. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 38.1, 38.6. (v2 of text)

Atomic Spectra & Discharge Lamps
Reading : 37.7-8. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 38.7-8. (v2 of text)

Applications of spectra & Lasers -
Reading : 41.6-8. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 42.6-8. (v2 of text)
HW3 due (Tues midnight) & Wed before class

Finish Lasers & revisit double slit / interpretation-
(catch up on reading : )

Exam review 

Review Lectures & Readings above.
HW4 due (Monday midnight)

Exam#1 Tues 7:30pm

Balmer Series & Bohr Model
Reading : 24.1, 38.5-7. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 25.1, 39.5-7. (v2 of text) - note this is crrected

Bohr Model
be prepared for reading quiz on Balmer and Bohr (Wed readings!)

Atomic Spin

Reading: "100 Years of Quantum Mysteries" Available on CU Learn

Stern-Gerlach Experiments
HW5 due (Tues midnight & Wed before class)
Reading Quiz: Respond to the "Online Reading Question" on CU Learn regarding Monday's reading assignment.(Tues midnight)
[Optional Reading: "Stern and Gerlach" - Available on CU Learn]

Probability

Reading: "Probability" Available on CU Learn

EPR/Entanglement

Local Realism
HW6 due (Tues midnight & Wed before class)
Reading Quiz: Respond to the "Online Reading Question" on CU Learn regarding Monday's reading assignment.(Tues midnight)

Single-Photon Experiments

Reading: "The Reality of the Quantum World " Available on CU Learn

Complementarity

Reading: "The Duality in Matter and Light" Available on CU Learn

Electron Diffraction/Matter Waves
HW7 due (Tues midnight)
Reading Quiz: Respond to the "Online Reading Question" on CU Learn regarding Monday's reading assignment.(Tues midnight)
Reading : 39.1-39.4. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 40.1-40.4. (v2 of text)
[Optional Reading: "Electron Diffraction: 50 Years Ago " - Available on CU Learn]

Wave Function/Uncertainty Principle

Reading : 39.5-39.6. (v1 of text) or
Reading : 40.5-40.6. (v2 of text)

Exam Review

HW8 due (Monday midnight)

Exam#2 Tues 7:30 pm

Schrodinger Equation (25)
Reading v1 or v2: 21.1-3
Reading v1: 40.1-2.

Potentials/Potential Energy
Reading v1or v2: 21.1-3 (online responses)
Reading v1: 40.1-2. or v2 41.1-2 (online responses)

Infinite Square Well (27)
Reading v1: 40.3-4 (online responses)
Reading v2: 41.3-4 (online responses)

Finite Square Well/Tunneling
Reading v1: 40.5-7(online responses)
Reading v2: 41.5-7(online responses)
HW9 due (Tues midnight)

Alpha Decay/STM (30)
Reading v1: 40.9-10, 42.3, p.1369
Reading v2: 41.9-10, 43.3, p.1349-50

Measurement / Hydrogen

Hydrogen Atom (33)
Reading v1: 41.1-2 (inclass RQ )
Reading v2: 42.1-2 ((inclass RQ)

Multi-Electron Atoms/Periodic Table (34)
Reading v1: 41.3-5 ((inclass RQ
Reading v2: 42.3-5 ((inclass RQ
HW11 due (Tues midnight)

Bonding & C(olor 35)
Reading v1: 41.6-7((inclass RQ
Reading v2: 42.6-7((inclass RQ

Exam Review
HW12 due (Monday midnight)

Exam#3 Tues 7:30 pm

Molecular Bonding/Solids

14. 11/22

Fall Break

Fall Break

Fall Break

15. 11/29

Semi-Conductors/Diodes/Transistors
no readings for today

Semi-Conductors/Diodes/Transistors
Reading v1: 40.9 (covalent bond), 40.10 (reso. tunn diode)- optional
Reading v2: 41.9 (covalent bond), 41.10 (reso. tunn diode)- optional

nuclear energy / weapons
Reading v1: 42.1, 42.3, 42.5
Reading v2: 43.1, 43.3, 43.5
Draft Final Project Due (optional)

16. 12/6

BEC or MRI
HW13 due (Tues midnight)
Readings TBD

Exam review

Last class- Exam review.
Final Project Due