PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week Date Prelectures Checkpoints Lectures/Exams Prelabs/Labs Discussions Homework Exam
1
Monday
6/13/2022
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1 Unit 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording
  Discussion 1
Solution
   
Tuesday
6/14/2022
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2

Unit 2:
Interference 
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording

No Lab      
Wednesday
6/15/2022
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3

Unit 3:
Diffraction
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording

  Discussion 2
Solution
   
Thursday
6/16/2022
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4

Unit 4:
Photons
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording

Prelab 1
Lab Intro
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction
  Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Friday
6/17/2022
Juneteenth Holiday
2
Monday
6/20/2022
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5

Unit 5:
Probability and Complex Numbers
pptx pdf (blank)
pptx (annotated)

  Discussion 3
Solution
   
Tuesday
6/21/2022
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6

Unit 6:
The Wave Function
pptx pdf (blank)
pptx (annotated)
recording

Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons
  Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
 
Wednesday
6/22/2022
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7

Unit 7:
Momentum and Position
pptx pdf (blank)
pptx (annotated)
recording

  Discussion 4
Solution
   
Thursday
6/23/2022
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8 Unit 8:
Energy eigenstates
(Time independent Schroedinger equation)
pptx pdf (blank)
​No Lab   Homework 5 due
Homework 6 due
 
Friday
6/24/2022
   
3
Monday
6/27/2022
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9

Unit 9:
Harmonic oscillator
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording

  Discussion 5
Solution
   
Tuesday
6/28/2022
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Unit 10:
Multiple electrons
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording
Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Atomic Spectra
  Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
 
Wednesday
6/29/2022
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Hour exam review
pptx pdf (blank)
pdf (annotated)
recording failed :(
  Discussion 6
Solution
   
Thursday
6/30/2022
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12

Unit 11:
Band structure
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​No Lab   Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due
HOUR EXAM
Friday
7/1/2022
 

 
 
4
Monday
7/4/2022
Independence Day Holiday
Tuesday
7/5/2022
    Unit 12:
Polarization and spin
pptx pdf(blank)
No Lab   Homework 11 due
Homework 12 due
 
Wednesday
7/6/2022
    Final exam review
pptx pdf(blank)
  Discussion 7
Solution
  FINAL EXAM
Thursday
7/7/2022