Week

Date (Mon.)

Chapter

Topics

Lab

1

8/28

Ch. 3

Wave Review

Speed of Light, Uncertainty

2

9/4

Ch. 3, 4

Photoelectric, Compton Scattering, Blackbody

Photoelectric Effect

3

9/11

Ch. 4

Statistics

4

9/18 

Ch. 4, 5

DeBroglie

m-wave Bragg Diffraction

5

9/25 

Ch. 5

Uncertainty Principle

Wavefunctions

EXAM #1

6

10/2 WRF

(Fall Break)

Ch. 6

Schrodinger Equation

X-ray Bragg Spectroscopy

7

10/9

Ch. 6

Schrodinger Equation, square wells

Electron Diffraction

8

10/16

Ch. 6

Qualitative Solutions

Michelson Interferometer

9

10/23

Ch. 6

SHO, finite square well,

1D scattering

Gamma Spectroscopy (NIM)

10

10/30

Ch. 7

1D Scattering,

Hydrogen Atom

Single Photon Counting

11

11/6

Ch. 7

Hydrogen Atom

EXAM #2

12

11/13

Ch. 7

Quantum numbers,

Selection Rules

Atomic Spectra

13

11/20  MT

(T-giving)

Ch. 8

Spin

No lab (Happy Thanksgiving)

14

11/27

Ch. 8

Many-electron atoms, angular momentum

Helium Spectra, Selection Rules

15

12/4

Ch. 8

More angular momentum