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

Schedule

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Prelecture notes

Prelecture notes should be read before class. Read the unit that corresponds to the lecture.

All Discussion Problems are in the Discussion Manual.

Week Date Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs / Labs Discussions Homework
1
Monday
6/15/2020
 Checkpoint 1
Lecture Question 1		 Unit 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf		   Week 1 Discussion Solutions  
Tuesday
6/16/2020
 Checkpoint 2
Lecture Question 2		 Unit 2:
Interference
pdf		 Prelab 1 due

Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction Group A		    
Wednesday
6/17/2020
 Checkpoint 3
Lecture Question 3		 Unit 3:
Diffraction
pdf		   Week 2:  Interference
 		 Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Thursday
6/18/2020
 Checkpoint 4
Lecture Question 4		 Unit 4:
Photons
pdf		 Prelab 1 due

Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction Group B		    
Friday
6/19/2020
         Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
2
Monday
6/22/2020
 Checkpoint 5
Lecture Question 5		 Unit 6:
Quantum nature of polarization
pdf		   Week 3:  Single-Slit Diffraction
and the Properties of Photons
 
 
Tuesday
6/23/2020
 Checkpoint 6
Lecture Question 6		 Unit 7:
Quantum description of matter
pdf		 Prelab 2 due
Lab 2:
Photons Group A		    
Wednesday
6/24/2020
 Checkpoint 7
Lecture Question 7		 Unit 8:
Energy eigenstates
(Time independent Schroedinger equation)
pdf		   Week 4:  The Wave Function 
Description of Light
 		 Homework 5 due
Homework 6 due
 
Thursday
6/25/2020
 Checkpoint 8
Lecture Question 8		 Review for Midterm
pdf		 Prelab 2 due
Lab 2:
Photons Group B		    
Friday
6/26/2020
 Mid-Term Exam  
3
Monday
6/29/2020
 Checkpoint 9
Lecture Question 9		 Unit 9:
Harmonic Oscillator
pdf		   Week 5:  Wave Functions with
Definite Properties		 Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
Tuesday
6/30/2020
 Checkpoint 10
Lecture Question 10		 Unit 10:
Time-Dependent
Quantum States
pdf		 Prelab 3 due
Lab 3:
Atomic Spectra Group A		    
Wednesday
7/1/2020
 Checkpoint 11
Lecture Question 11		 Unit 11:
Tunneling and Coupled wells
pdf		   Week 6:  Energy Levels and
Time Dependence
 		 Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due
 
Thursday
7/2/2020
   Review
pdf		 Prelab 3 due
Lab 3:
Atomic Spectra Group B		    
Friday
7/3/2020
          
4
Monday
7/6/2020
Checkpoint 12
Lecture Question 12
Unit 12:
Many electrons and band structure
pdf		   Week 7:  Tunnelling and More
than One Particle		  
Tuesday
7/7/2020
    Unit 13:
Applications of quantum mechanics
pdf		 No Lab Groups A & B    
Wednesday
7/8/2020
   Unit 14:
Final review
pdf		     Homework 11 due
Homework 12 due
Thursday
7/9/2020
          
Friday
7/10/2020
 Final