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Schedule

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Week Date Prelecture Lecture Lab Discussion Homework/Online Quizzes Exam
1
Monday
8/26/2013
  Lecture 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
8/27/2013
      Discussion 1    
Wednesday
8/28/2013
Prelecture 1 Lecture 2:
Interference
Text : 35.1-3
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
8/29/2013
         
Friday
8/30/2013
Prelecture 2 Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
     
2
Monday
9/2/2013
Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday
9/3/2013
    Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction
Discussion 2
Quiz 1
   
Wednesday
9/4/2013
  Lecture 4:
Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Text: 36.1-6
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
9/5/2013
    Homework 1 due
Online Quiz 1 due
 
Friday
9/6/2013
Prelecture 3

Lecture 5:
Applications
Text: 35.5, 36.7
pdf ppt

Lecture 6:
Review & Examples
(Lecture not given)
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3
Monday
9/9/2013
  Lecture 7:
Intro to Quantum Physics:
Light as Particles
Text: 38.1-2, 9
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
9/10/2013
    Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons
Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Homework 2 due
Online Quiz 2 due
 
Wednesday
9/11/2013
Prelecture 4 Lecture 8:
Matter Waves &
Uncertainty Principle
Text: 39.1-5
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
9/12/2013
       
Friday
9/13/2013
  Lecture 9:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
   
4
Monday
9/16/2013
Prelecture 5 Lecture 10:
The Schrödinger Equation &
Particle in a Box
Text: 40.1
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Tuesday
9/17/2013
      Discussion 4
Quiz 3
Homework 3 due
Online Quiz 3 due
 
Wednesday
9/18/2013
  Lecture 11:
Particles in Finite
Potential Wells
Text: 40.2
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
9/19/2013
         
Friday
9/20/2013
  Lecture 12:
Review & Examples
Text: 40.4
pdf ppt
     
5
Monday
9/23/2013
Prelecture 6 Lecture 13:
Barrier Penetration
and Tunneling
Text: 40.3
pdf ppt
      Midterm Exam (7 PM)
Tuesday
9/24/2013
    Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Computer Exercise
Lab 3 is held in
room 257
Discussion 5
Quiz 4
   
Wednesday
9/25/2013
  Lecture 14:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
9/26/2013
      Homework 4 due
Online Quiz 4 due
 
Friday
9/27/2013
Prelecture 7 Lecture 15:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
     
6
Monday
9/30/2013
  Lecture 16:
3D Potentials and
the Hydrogen Atom
Text: 38.3-5; 40.5, 41.1
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/1/2013
      Discussion 6
Quiz 5
Homework 5 due
Online Quiz 5 due
 
Wednesday
10/2/2013
Prelecture 8 Lecture 17:
Angular Momentum,
Spin and Atoms
Text: 41.1-2
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
10/3/2013
         
Friday
10/4/2013
Prelecture 9 Lecture 18:
Review & Examples
Text: 41.3
pdf ppt
     
7
Monday
10/7/2013
Prelecture 10 Lecture 19:
Building Atoms,
Molecules and Solids
Text: 41.4; 42.1
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/8/2013
    Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Atomic Spectra
Discussion 7
Quiz 6
   
Wednesday
10/9/2013
  Lecture 20:
Solids: (Semi-)Conductors
and Insulators
Text: 42.4, 6, 8
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
10/10/2013
       
Friday
10/11/2013
  Lecture 21:
Lasers, Macroscopic
Superpositions
Text: 38.6
pdf ppt
   
  Saturday
10/12/2013
        Homework 6 due
Online Quiz 6 due
 
8
Monday
10/14/2013
          Final Exam (7 PM)