Date

text

Homework/exam

topic

week 1

Aug 24

(ch 1), 2

Classical Relativity, Postulates

26

2

28

2

  
  HW due ch 2

simultaneity, twins, doppler effect

   week 2
 

Aug 31

2

,Length contraction, Lorentz trans, 

Sep 2

2

   
 HW due ch 2  

velocity trans

4

2

energy & momentum, 

   
 week 3

9

3

HW due ch 2

review, light as a wave: , 

11

ch 2

 EXAM #1

week 4

14

   3

Blackbody, Photoelectric effect

16

3

  18

5,6.

 week 5

21

   6

probability

23

6  

 Uncertainty

25

Schroedinger eqn, 

  week 6

28

 particle in a box

30

expectation values, piecewise constant potentials

Oct 2

tunneling, 

week 7

5

chs 12.1-3, 14.1,3, 5-6

simple harmonic oscillator

7

chs 3-6

EXAM #2 

9

8

 ideas due  

H-atom

  week 8

12

8

H-spectrum, Exclusion Principle

14

8

angular momentum addition

16

no class

  week 9

  19

molecules

21

 12, 14

23

 14

  week 10

26

 12

28

30

general relativity

finals week 

  Thursday, Nov 5, 12-2 pm

mostly material since exam #2

EXAM #3

Projects due
Monday 3:30