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
8/27/2018
  Lecture 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
8/28/2018
      Discussion 1    
Wednesday
8/29/2018

Prelecture 1
Quantum Physics

Lecture 2:
Interference
Text : 35.1-3
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
8/30/2018
         
Friday
8/31/2018

Prelecture 2
Phasors, multiple-slit interference
and single-slit-diffraction

Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
     
2
Monday
9/3/2018
Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday
9/4/2018
      Discussion 2
Quiz 1
Homework 1 due
Online Quiz 1 due
 
Wednesday
9/5/2018


 

Lecture 4:
Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Text: 36.1-6
pdf ppt


 

     
Thursday
9/6/2018
         
Friday
9/7/2018
Prelecture 3
Rayleigh's criterion
Lecture 5:
Applications
Text: 35.5, 36.7
pdf ppt

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

     
3
Monday
9/10/2018
  Lecture 7:
Intro to Quantum Physics:
Light as Particles
Text: 38.1-2, 9
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
9/11/2018
    Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction
Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Homework 2 due
Online Quiz 2 due
 
Wednesday
9/12/2018

Prelecture 4
Single-particle interference and
the principle of complementarity
 

Lecture 8:
Matter Waves &
Uncertainty Principle
Text: 39.1-5
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
9/13/2018
       
Friday
9/14/2018
  Lecture 9:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
   
4
Monday
9/17/2018

Prelecture 5a
The Schrodinger equation

Lecture 10:
The Schrödinger Equation &
Particle in a Box
Text: 40.1
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
9/18/2018
    Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons
Discussion 4
Quiz 3
Homework 3 due
Online Quiz 3 due
 
Wednesday
9/19/2018
Prelecture 5b
The Schrodinger equation
Lecture 11:
Particles in Finite
Potential Wells
Text: 40.2
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
9/20/2018
       
Friday
9/21/2018
  Lecture 12:
Review & Examples
Text: 40.4
Class cancelled-online review
   
5
Monday
9/24/2018

Prelecture 6
Schroedinger equation wrapup
 

Lecture 13:
Barrier Penetration
and Tunneling
Text: 40.3
pdf ppt
      Midterm Exam
Tuesday
9/25/2018
    Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Available in byteshelf
To be done as homework!
 
Discussion 5
Quiz 4
   
Wednesday
9/26/2018
  Lecture 14:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
9/27/2018
    Homework 4 due
Online Quiz 4 due
 
Friday
9/28/2018

Prelecture 7
Measurements in quantum mechanics
 

Lecture 15:
Tunneling
pdf ppt
   
6
Monday
10/1/2018
  Lecture 16:
3D Potentials

Text: 40.5, 41.1,41.2
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/2/2018
      Discussion 6
Quiz 5
Homework 5 due
Online Quiz 5 due
 
Wednesday
10/3/2018

Prelecture 8
Solutions for hydrogen
 

Lecture 17:
The hydrogen atom
Text: 41.3
pdf ppt
NO LAB    
Thursday
10/4/2018
         
Friday
10/5/2018

Prelecture 9
The amazing Stern-Gerlach experiment

Prelecture 10
Beyond hydrogen - more protons,
more electrons, more fun!

Lecture 18:
Angular momentum and examples
Text: 41.5
pdf ppt
     
7
Monday
10/8/2018


 

Lecture 19:
Building Atoms,
Molecules and Solids
Text: 41.5; 42.1
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/9/2018
    Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Atomic Spectra
Discussion 7
Quiz 6
   
Wednesday
10/10/2018
  Lecture 20:
Solids: (Semi-)Conductors
and Insulators
Text: 42.4, 6, 8
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
10/11/2018
       
Friday
10/12/2018
  Lecture 21:
Lasers, Macroscopic
Superpositions
Text: 38.6
pdf ppt
Homework 6 due
Online Quiz 6 due
 
8
Monday
10/15/2018
          Final Exam (7 PM)