PHYS 214 Spring 2025
PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| Week | Date | Prelecture reading | Checkpoints | Lectures | Prelabs / Labs | Discussions | Homework | Exams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday 1/20/2025 | Martin Luther King Jr Day, no class | ||||||
Tuesday 1/21/2025 | No lab activities this week | |||||||
Wednesday 1/22/2025 | Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | Unit 1: Waves and Wave Equations | |||||
Thursday 1/23/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 1/24/2025 | Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | Unit 2: Interference pdf+Recorded problems | |||||
| 2 | Monday 1/27/2025 | Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Unit 3: Diffraction | Prelab 1 Lab 1: Interference and Diffraction | Discussion 2 Discussion 2 solutions | ||
Tuesday 1/28/2025 | Homework 1 due Homework 2 due | |||||||
Wednesday 1/29/2025 | Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Unit 4: Photons | |||||
Thursday 1/30/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 1/31/2025 | Recorded problems (no in-person class) | |||||||
| 3 | Monday 2/3/2025 | Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | Unit 5: Probability and Complex Numbers | No lab activities this week | Discussion 3 Discussion 3 solutions | ||
Tuesday 2/4/2025 | Homework 3 due Homework 4 due | |||||||
Wednesday 2/5/2025 | Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | Unit 6: The Wave Function | Hour Exam 1 | ||||
Thursday 2/6/2025 | Hour Exam 1 | |||||||
Friday 2/7/2025 | Recorded problems (no in-person class) | Hour Exam 1 | ||||||
| 4 | Monday 2/10/2025 | Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | Unit 7: | Prelab 2 Lab 2: Photons | Discussion 4 Discussion 4 solutions | ||
Tuesday 2/11/2025 | Homework 5 due Homework 6 due | |||||||
Wednesday 2/12/2025 | Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | Unit 8: Energy eigenstates (Time independent Schroedinger equation) | |||||
Thursday 2/13/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 2/14/2025 | Recorded problems (no in-person class) | |||||||
| 5 | Monday 2/17/2025 | Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Unit 9: Harmonic oscillator | No lab activities this week | Discussion 5 Discussion 5 solutions | ||
Tuesday 2/18/2025 | Homework 7 due Homework 8 due | |||||||
Wednesday 2/19/2025 | Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Unit 10: Multiple electrons | Hour Exam 2 | ||||
Thursday 2/20/2025 | Hour Exam 2 | |||||||
Friday 2/21/2025 | Recorded problems (no in-person class) | Hour Exam 2 | ||||||
| 6 | Monday 2/24/2025 | Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Unit 11: Band structure | Prelab 3 Lab 3: Atomic Spectra | Discussion 6 Discussion 6 solutions | ||
Tuesday 2/25/2025 | Homework 9 due Homework 10 due | |||||||
Wednesday 2/26/2025 | Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 | Unit 12: Polarization and spin | |||||
Thursday 2/27/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 2/28/2025 | Recorded problems (no in-person class) | |||||||
| 7 | Monday 3/3/2025 | Quantum matter: molecules, superconductors | No lab activities this week | Discussion 7 Discussion 7 solutions | ||||
Tuesday 3/4/2025 | ||||||||
Wednesday 3/5/2025 | Final review | |||||||
Thursday 3/6/2025 | Homework 11 due Homework 12 due | Final Exam 3/6-9 | ||||||
Friday 3/7/2025 | NO LECTURE | Final Exam 3/6-9 | ||||||
| 8 | Monday 3/10/2025 | |||||||