Course Schedule and Important Dates

Announcements:

-Office hours 11:00-1:00 pm on Monday, or by appointment -Review/help Session 7pm, Sunday in Science 304 -Activities and Solutions unembeded from lecture ppts, see below Final Exam Breakdown: 60-70% Quantum, 30-40% Review General Material:lectures, labs, in-class activities and homework. Specific Material: Quantum                                                           Review Blackbody radiation                                 index of refraction Photoelectric effect                                 snell's law de Broglie waves                                     lenses/imaging compton effect                                         human eye wave-properties of matter                      reflection electron (particle) diffraction                  spherical mirrors/imaging   -single slit                                               wave properties of light   -double slit                                                 -interference   -circular aperture                                      -diffraction Heisenberg Uncertainty                             -polarization Particle-in-a-box                                          -Rayleigh scattering wavefunctions                                          Optical instruments Hydrogen                                                   Resolution Radioactivity                                             Classical Relativity                                                                     Special Relativity Study tips: For review material, content will be similar to the last two exams. Make sure to know how to do the old exams. For new content, start with lectures, activities and homework. The book is a good reference, but I would not advise reading through the chapters. Use the book when information from lectures and activities does not make sense. The Question section for relevant chapters of the book are very good. The book also has a website where you can do practice questions. Make sure to study the concepts principles behind each problem. With the concepts and principles you can do every  problem. Do not study a specific problem since you will only know how to do just that one type. The emphasis will not be on solving equations (though there will be some). Good scientists have good mental pictures on why and how things happen. Solving equations is for computers or calculators and is just plain boring.

Lecture:

Week	Date	Topic	Chapters/Reading	Homework due
1	Mar. 10	Light, Index of Refraction
	Mar. 12	Refraction, refractive Phenomena	11-14, 22-3, 23-4 through 23-6	Ch22: 7, Ch23 27
	Mar. 14	Lenses, imaging Link to compound lens applet from Davidson College	23-5 through 23-8	Ch23: 31, 38, 43
2	Mar. 17	Reflection, spherical mirrors,  lens/mirror combinations	23-1 through 23-3; 23-9	Ch23: 1, 11, 63
	Mar. 19	Ray-tracing Review	no new reading	Ch23: 12, 21
	Mar. 21	Good Friday, No Class
3	Mar. 25 (Tuesday)	Human Eye; Optical Instrumentation	25-1 through 25-4	Ch23: 90 Ch25: 19
	Mar. 26	Optical Instrumentation Cont.	25-5	NA, bigger set due Mar. 28
	Mar. 28	Finish Optical Instruments: cameras, telescopes, microscopes	no new reading	Ch25: 14, 16, 22, 26, 29
4	Mar. 31	Interference and diffraction	24-1 through 24-5	Ch25: 43 Ch24: 5
	Apr. 2	Diffraction cont.	no new reading	Ch24: 15, 25
	Apr. 4	Exam 1	no new reading	none
5	Apr. 7	Diffraction and Resolution	no new reading	none
	Apr. 9	Wrap up diffraction, interference, wave nature of light	Ch 24-6 through 24-10, 24-12, 25-8	Ch24: 18, 27
	Apr. 11	Begin Relativity: Activity	26-1 through 26-5	Ch24: 34, 45, 57
6	Apr. 14	Classical vs. Special Relativity.	no new reading	Ch3: 44, Ch26: 1
	Apr. 16	Special Relativity	no new reading	none; larger set for Friday
	Apr. 18	Special Relativity, Simultaneity	26-7, 26-8	Ch26: 5, 12, 13
7	Apr. 21	Finish Relativity	26-9, 26-10	Ch26:20, 28
	Apr. 23	Relativistic Energy; Review Review Sheet (I'll provide in class; don't print it, relax and save some trees)	no new reading	Ch26: 5,68,69
	Apr. 25	Exam 2	no new reading	none
8	Apr. 28	Quantum Theory	27-2 to 27-9	none
	Apr. 30	No Class (sick day)	27-12, 27-13	Ch27: 5, 17, 37
	May 2	Quantum Continued	no new reading	none
9	May 5	Quantum Mechanics: wave functions	no new reading	Ch27: 45, 46, 48
	May 7	Nova Video: The Elegant Universe	in-class activity	none
	May 9	No Class	no new reading	none
10	May 12	Wavefunctions, Hydrogen	28-1, 28-5	Ch27: 63, 81 Ch28: 4 Instead of written sheet requested for #63, turn in your particle in a box handout (just one for your group)
	May 14	Heisenberg Uncertainty, Radioactivity	no new reading	Ch27: 38, 83 Ch28: 2
	May 16	Radioactivity, Review, Course Evals	30-1 through 30-9	Congrats! All done!!!

Activities and Solutions Unembedded:
Bouncing Beam
Compound Lens
Corrective Lenses
Telescope
Diffraction
Blue Ray (Resolution)
Classical Relativity
Special Relativity: Bert and Ernie
Muon Lifetime
de Broglie Waves
Particle in a Box