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Schedule

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Week Date Prelecture Lecture Lab Discussion Homework/Online Quizzes Exam
1
Monday
1/15/2018
Martin Luther King Holiday
Tuesday
1/16/2018
    No Lab Discussion 1    
Wednesday
1/17/2018
  Lecture 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
1/18/2018
       
Friday
1/19/2018
Prelecture 1 Lecture 2:
Interference
Text : 35.1-3
pdf ppt
     
2
Monday
1/22/2018
Prelecture 2 Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
No Lab      
Tuesday
1/23/2018
    Discussion 2
Quiz 1
Homework 1 due
Online Quiz 1 due
 
Wednesday
1/24/2018
Prelecture 3 Lecture 4:
Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Text: 36.1-5
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
1/25/2018
       
Friday
1/26/2018
  Lecture 5:
Applications
Text: 35.5, 36.7
pdf ppt

Lecture 6:
Review & Examples
(Lecture not given)
pdf ppt
     
3
Monday
1/29/2018
  Lecture 7:
Intro to Quantum Physics:
Light as Particles
Text: 38.1-2, 9
pdf ppt
Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction
     
Tuesday
1/30/2018
    Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Homework 2 due
Online Quiz 2 due
 
Wednesday
1/31/2018
Prelecture 4 Lecture 8:
Matter Waves
Text: 39.1-2
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
2/1/2018
       
Friday
2/2/2018
  Lecture 9:
Uncertainty Principle
Text: 39.3-4
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
     
4
Monday
2/5/2018
Prelecture 5a Lecture 10:
The Schrödinger Equation &
Particle in a Box
Text: 39.5-40.1
pdf ppt
Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons
     
Tuesday
2/6/2018
    Discussion 4
Quiz 3
Homework 3 due
Online Quiz 3 due
 
Wednesday
2/7/2018
Prelecture 5b Lecture 11:
Particles in Finite
Potential Wells
Text: 40.2 - 40.3
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
2/8/2018
       
Friday
2/9/2018
  Lecture 12:
Review & Examples
Text: 40.4
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5
Monday
2/12/2018
Prelecture: Tunneling Lecture 13:
Barrier Penetration
and Tunneling
Text: 40.3
pdf ppt
No Lab     Midterm Exam
Tuesday
2/13/2018
    Discussion 5
Quiz 4
   
Wednesday
2/14/2018

 

Prelecture: Measurement

Lecture 14:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
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Thursday
2/15/2018
    Homework 4 due
Online Quiz 4 due
 
Friday
2/16/2018
  Lecture 15:
Review & Examples
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6
Monday
2/19/2018
  Lecture 16:
3D Potentials and
the Hydrogen Atom
Text: 38.3-5; 40.5, 41.1
pdf ppt

Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Wave Functions
Computer Exercise


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

     
Tuesday
2/20/2018
    Discussion 6
Quiz 5
Homework 5 due
Online Quiz 5 due
 
Wednesday
2/21/2018
Prelecture: Hydrogen Lecture 17:
Angular Momentum
Text: 41.1-2
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
2/22/2018
       
Friday
2/23/2018
Prelecture: Stern-Gerlach Lecture 18:
Spin and Atoms
Text: 41.3
pdf ppt
     
7

Sunday

2/25/2018

 

Optional Lecture

on Quantum Information

(3pm in 141 Loomis)

       
Monday
2/26/2018
Prelecture: Beyond Hydrogen Lecture 19:
Building Atoms,
Molecules
Text: 41.4; 42.1
pdf ppt
Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Atomic Spectra
     
Tuesday
2/27/2018
    Discussion 7
Quiz 6
   
Wednesday
2/28/2018
  Lecture 20:
Solids: (Semi-)Conductors
and Insulators
Text: 42.4, 6, 8
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
3/1/2018
       
Friday
3/2/2018
  Lecture 21:
Lasers, Macroscopic
Superpositions
Text: 38.6
pdf ppt
 

Homework 6
Online Quiz 6

 
8
Monday
3/5/2018
          Final Exam (7 PM)