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

Syllabus

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Week Date Prelecture Lecture Ask the Prof Lab Discussion Homework Exam
1
Monday
1/14/2013
   Lecture 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof     Homework 1  
Tuesday
1/15/2013
         Discussion 1  
Wednesday
1/16/2013
 Prelecture 1 Lecture 2:
Interference
Text : 35.1-3
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof    
Thursday
1/17/2013
          
Friday
1/18/2013
 Prelecture 2 Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof    
2
Monday
1/21/2013
 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Tuesday
1/22/2013
       Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction		 Discussion 2
Quiz 1		  
Wednesday
1/23/2013
 Prelecture 3 Lecture 4:
Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Text: 36.1-5
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof  
Thursday
1/24/2013
        
Friday
1/25/2013
  

Lecture 5:
Applications
Text: 35.5, 36.7
pdf ppt

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

 Ask the Prof   Homework 2  
3
Monday
1/28/2013
   Lecture 7:
Intro to Quantum Physics:
Light as Particles
Text: 38.1-2, 9
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Tuesday
1/29/2013
       Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons		 Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Wednesday
1/30/2013
 Prelecture 4 Lecture 8:
Matter Waves
Text: 39.1-2
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof Homework 3  
Thursday
1/31/2013
        
Friday
2/1/2013
   Lecture 9:
Uncertainty Principle
Text: 39.3-4
Review & Examples
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4
Monday
2/4/2013
 Prelecture 5 Lecture 10:
The Schrödinger Equation &
Particle in a Box
Text: 39.5-40.1
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Tuesday
2/5/2013
         Discussion 4
Quiz 3		  
Wednesday
2/6/2013
   Lecture 11:
Particles in Finite
Potential Wells
Text: 40.2
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof   Homework 4  
Thursday
2/7/2013
          
Friday
2/8/2013
   Lecture 12:
Review & Examples
Text: 40.4
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5
Monday
2/11/2013
 Prelecture 6 Lecture 13:
Barrier Penetration
and Tunneling
Text: 40.3
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Midterm Exam

(7 PM; conflict at 5:15pm)
Tuesday
2/12/2013
      

Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Computer Exercise
Lab 3  for 132 Loomis is held in
room 257

 Discussion 5
Quiz 4		  
Wednesday
2/13/2013
 Prelecture 7 Lecture 14:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof  
Thursday
2/14/2013
        
Friday
2/15/2013
   Lecture 15:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof   Homework 5  
6
Monday
2/18/2013
   Lecture 16:
3D Potentials and
the Hydrogen Atom
Text: 38.3-5; 40.5, 41.1
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Tuesday
2/19/2013
       Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Computer Exercise
Lab 3 for 164 Loomis is held in
room 257		 Discussion 6
Quiz 5		  
Wednesday
2/20/2013
 Prelecture 8 Lecture 17:
Angular Momentum
Text: 41.1-2
pdf ppt		 Ask the Prof Homework 6  
Thursday
2/21/2013
        
Friday
2/22/2013
 Prelecture 9 Lecture 18:
Spin and Atoms
Text: 41.3
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7
Monday
2/25/2013
 Prelecture 10 Lecture 19:
Building Atoms,
Molecules
Text: 41.4; 42.1
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Tuesday
2/26/2013
       Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Atomic Spectra		 Discussion 7
Quiz 6		  
Wednesday
2/27/2013
   Lecture 20:
Solids: (Semi-)Conductors
and Insulators
Text: 42.4, 6, 8
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Thursday
2/28/2013
        
Friday
3/1/2013
   Lecture 21:
Lasers, Macroscopic
Superpositions
Text: 38.6
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8
Monday
3/4/2013
            

Final Exam

(7 PM; conflict at 4:45pm)