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

Schedule

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Week Date Prelecture Lecture Lab Discussion Homework/Online Quizzes Exam
1
Monday
8/24/2015
   Lecture 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf ppt		        
Tuesday
8/25/2015
     No Lab Discussion 1    
Wednesday
8/26/2015
 Prelecture 1 Lecture 2:
Interference
Text : 35.1-3
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
8/27/2015
        
Friday
8/28/2015
 Prelecture 2 Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt		    
2
Monday
8/31/2015
   Lecture 4:
Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Text: 36.1-6
pdf ppt		        
Tuesday
9/1/2015
     No Lab Discussion 2
Quiz 1		    
Wednesday
9/2/2015
 Prelecture 3

Lecture 5:
Applications
Text: 35.5, 36.7
pdf ppt

Lecture 6:
Review & Examples
(Lecture not given)
pdf ppt

    
Thursday
9/3/2015
     Homework 1 due
Online Quiz 1 due		  
Friday
9/4/2015
   Lecture 7:
Intro to Quantum Physics:
Light as Particles
Text: 38.1-2, 9
pdf ppt		    
3
Monday
9/7/2015
 Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday
9/8/2015
     Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction		 Discussion 3
Quiz 2		 Homework 2 due
Online Quiz 2 due		  
Wednesday
9/9/2015
 Prelecture 4 Lecture 8:
Matter Waves &
Uncertainty Principle
Text: 39.1-5
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
9/10/2015
        
Friday
9/11/2015
   Lecture 9:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt		    
4
Monday
9/14/2015
 Prelecture 5 Lecture 10:
The Schrödinger Equation &
Particle in a Box
Text: 40.1
pdf ppt		        
Tuesday
9/15/2015
     Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons		 Discussion 4
Quiz 3		 Homework 3 due
Online Quiz 3 due		  
Wednesday
9/16/2015
   Lecture 11:
Particles in Finite
Potential Wells
Text: 40.2
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
9/17/2015
        
Friday
9/18/2015
   Lecture 12:
Review & Examples
Text: 40.4
pdf ppt		    
5
Monday
9/21/2015
 Prelecture 6 Lecture 13:
Barrier Penetration
and Tunneling
Text: 40.3
pdf ppt		       Midterm Exam (7 PM)
Tuesday
9/22/2015
    

Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Computer Exercise
Available in byteshelf
To be done as homework!
 

Turn your pre-lab and lab
worksheets in during Lab 4

 Discussion 5
Quiz 4		    
Wednesday
9/23/2015
   Lecture 14:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
9/24/2015
     Homework 4 due
Online Quiz 4 due		  
Friday
9/25/2015
 Prelecture 7 Lecture 15:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt		    
6
Monday
9/28/2015
   Lecture 16:
3D Potentials and
the Hydrogen Atom
Text: 38.3-5; 40.5, 41.1
pdf ppt		        
Tuesday
9/29/2015
     No Lab Discussion 6
Quiz 5		 Homework 5 due
Online Quiz 5 due		  
Wednesday
9/30/2015
 Prelecture 8 Lecture 17:
Angular Momentum,
Spin and Atoms
Text: 41.1-2
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
10/1/2015
        
Friday
10/2/2015
 Prelecture 9 Lecture 18:
Review & Examples
Text: 41.3
pdf ppt		    
7
Monday
10/5/2015
 Prelecture 10 Lecture 19:
Building Atoms,
Molecules and Solids
Text: 41.4; 42.1
pdf ppt		        
Tuesday
10/6/2015
     Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Atomic Spectra

Turn in Lab 3 pre-lab and
and Lab 3 Worksheets.		 Discussion 7
Quiz 6		    
Wednesday
10/7/2015
   Lecture 20:
Solids: (Semi-)Conductors
and Insulators
Text: 42.4, 6, 8
pdf ppt		    
Thursday
10/8/2015
        
Friday
10/9/2015
   Lecture 21:
Lasers, Macroscopic
Superpositions
Text: 38.6
pdf ppt		 Homework 6 due
Online Quiz 6 due		  
8
Monday
10/12/2015
           Final Exam (7 PM)