Week # (Monday)

Tues

Thurs

1. 1/12

Day 1 Intro: Review Math & EM Waves
Optional review readings:
Knight Chaps 25,26,34 (v3 or v1 of text)
Knight Chaps 26,27,35 (v2 of text) or

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

2. 1/19

Waves & Superposition
Reading : 21.1-3 & 21.5-7 & 22.1-.2 , 22.6 (ver 1-3)

HW1 due (Tues Noon)

Photoelectric effect -
Reading : 38.1-38.3 (ver 3 or ver 1 text) or

Reading : 39.1-39.3 (ver 2 text)

3. 1/26

Finish Photoelectric Effect / Modeling in Physics

Reading : 24.3. (v3 or v1 of text) or
Reading : 25.3. (v2 of text)


HW2 due (Tues Noon)

Atomic Spectra

Reading : 37.1, 37.6-8. (v3 or v1 of text) or
Reading : 38.1, 38.6-8. (v2 of text)

4. 2/2

Discharge Lamps Applications of spectra & Lasers -
Reading : 41.6-8. (v3 or v1 of text) or
Reading : 42.6-8. (v2 of text)
HW3 due (Tues Noon)

Balmer series and Bohr Model

Reading : 24.1, 38.5-7. (v3 or v1 of text) or
Reading : 25.1, 39.5-7. (v2 of text)

5. 2/9

Finish Balmer Series & Bohr Model

Exam review

Review Lectures & Readings above.
(catch up on reading : )
HW4 due (Tues noon)

Exam#1 Thurs (2/12) 5-6:15

6. 2/16

Atomic Spin / Stern-Gerlach Experiments

Reading: "100 Years of Quantum Mysteries" Available on nb
(http://nb.mit.edu)
Reading Quiz: Respond to the questions on the reading assignment.(Tues classtime)
[Optional Reading: "Stern and Gerlach" - to be posted on on nb]

NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK!

Stern-Gerlach Experiments / Probability

Reading: "Probability" Available on nb
(http://nb.mit.edu)Reading Quiz: Respond to the questions on the reading assignment.(Tues classtime

7.2/23

EPR/Entanglement / Local Realism

Reading: "A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity" Available on NB

Reading: "Is the moon there when nobody looks?" Available on NB
Reading Quiz: Respond to the questions on the reading assignment.(Tues classtime)

HW5 due (Tues noon)

Single-Photon Experiments

Reading: "The Reality of the Quantum World " Available on NB
Reading Quiz: Respond to the questions on the reading assignment.(Tues classtime

8. 3/2

Complementarity
Electron Diffraction/Matter Waves / Debroglie

Reading: "The Duality in Matter and Light" Available on NB
[Optional Reading: "Electron Diffraction: 50 Years Ago " - Available on NB]
Reading Quiz: Respond to the questions on the reading assignment.(Tues classtime)

HW6 due (Tues noon)

DeBroglie/ Wave Function/Uncertainty Principle

Reading : 39.1-6. (v3 or v1 of text) or
Reading : 40.1-6. (v2 of text)
Possble in class Reading Quiz:

9. 3/9

Schrodinger Equation / Potentials / PE
Reading all versions: 21.1-3
Reading v1 or 3: 40.1-2. or v2 41.1-2
Possble in class Reading Quiz:

HW7 due (Tues noon)

Infinite Square Well (27) / Finite Square Well/ Tunneling
Reading v1 or v3: 40.3-4
Reading v2: 41.3-4
Possble in class Reading Quiz:

10 3/16

Finite Square Well/Tunneling &
Tunneling Tutorial
Exam review
Reading v3 or v1: 40.5-7
Reading v2: 41.5-7(
HW8 due (Tues noon)

11. 3/25

Spring Break

Spring Break

Recap and Finish Tunneling

Reading v3 or v1: 40.5-7
Reading v2: 41.5-7

Alpha Decay / STM
Reading v3 or v1: 40.9-10, and 42.3, p.1209 (v3)
Reading v2: 41.9-10, 43.3, p.1349-50
Inclass Reading quiz (RQ)

Measurement / Hydrogen
Reading v3 or v1: 41.1-2
Reading v2: 42.1-2
Possble in class Reading Quiz:

HW 9 due (Tues noon)

H-atom, Multi-Electron Atoms
Reading v3 or v1: 41.3-5
Reading v2: 42.3-5
Possble in class Reading Quiz:

Bonding
Reading edition3 or v1: 40.9 (covalent bond)
Reading edition2: 41.9 (covalent bond)
HW 10 due (Tues noon)

Finish PN junctions, begin nukes
Reading v3 or v1: 42.1, 42.3, 42.5
Reading v2: 43.1, 43.3, 43.5
HW 11 due (Tues noon)

Nuclear Energy and Weapons
Reading v3 or v1: 42.1, 42.3, 42.5
Reading v2: 43.1, 43.3, 43.5
Possble in class Reading Quiz:
topics for optional project/paper due (on D2L)

Cosmology & Review
HW 12 due (Tues noon)

Review