Syllabus

Week

Date

Topic

Assignment

1

W 26-Aug

Introduction+Waves

 read website+syllabus

28-Aug

L 2 - Waves

2

31-Aug

L 3 - Waves

 2-Sep

L4-Notes: Michaelson-Morley Experiment

 problem set 1 due (download here)

  4-Sep

L-5 -SR-Time-Dilation

  9-Sep

L7-Clocks_Trains_Tunnels

For-Train-Tunnel-Paradox see here

 problem set 2 due
(download here)

11-Sep

L8-SR-Lorentz-Velocity

4

14-Sep

L9-SR-Momentum-Energy

Also_see_Einsteins_Box_Lecture_(M.Fowler)

16-Sep

18-Sep

L11-Black-Body-Radiation

5

21-Sep

L12-Photoelectric-Effect

23-Sep

L13_Compton_Scattering

  problem set 4 due
(download here)

Solutions

25-Sep

L14-Electron-Xrays

electron discovery (AIP site)

6

28-Sep

L15-Particles-and-Waves

30-Sep

Group Exam  (See Info in L14 notes)

Problem set 5 due
(download here)

  2-Oct

Individual Exam 1

7

  5-Oct

L16-Atom-History_Intro_to-Atomic-Spectra

  7-Oct

Rutherford Scattering Applet (CU-Boulder)

  9-Oct

L18-Bohr-Model-of-Atom

Hydrogen Atom Applet (CU-Boulder)

 Experiment with Applets for H atom and Ruth. Scatter.

8

12-Oct

L19-Bohr-Model-Continued

14-Oct

L20-Some-HW6-Bohr-Electron-Microscope

 Problem set 6 due

(download) 

Solutions

16-Oct

L21-Schrodinger-Equation-I

9

19-Oct

No Class - Fall Break

21-Oct

23-Oct

No Class -  APS  4 Corners Meeting

 Homework set 7 due 

(download here)

Solutions

10

26-Oct

L23-QM-SHO

28-Oct

L24-QM-Tunneling

 Homework set 8 due

(download here)

Solutions

30-Oct

L25-QM-Tunneling-II

11

  2-Nov

L26-QM-H-atom

  4-Nov

Group Exam II

 Homework set 9 due

(download here)

  6-Nov

Individual  Exam II

12

  9-Nov

L27-Quantum-Numbers

11-Nov

L28-Atoms

 Homework set 10 due

(download here)

13-Nov

L29-Molecules-Bonds

13

16-Nov

L30-Band-Structure

Quantum-Well-PHET-Applet

18-Nov

L31-Band-Structure-Semiconductors-Intro

Some Transistor links: 

 1926 Patent (Lilienfeld)

Transistor Invention 1947 Bardeen, Brattian, Shockley

Interesting Explanation of Transistors (Beaty)

 Homework set 11 due

(download here)

20-Nov

L32-Transistor-and-Intro-to-Nuclear

14

23-Nov

Nuclei

25-Nov

No Class - Thanksgiving  Day-1 

27-Nov

No Class - Thanksgiving Day+1

15

30-Nov

Nuclei

  2-Dec

Nuclei

 Homework set 12 due

  4-Dec

Nuclei

16

  7-Dec

Elem particles & cosmology

  9-Dec

Elem particles & cosmology

 Homework set 13 due