Week

Date (Tues.)

Lect.

Chapt.

Topics

Lab

0

8/26

1

Ch. 3

Classical Review

1

8/31

1

Ch. 3

Wave/EM Review,

Electrons, PE effect

Radioactive Decay

2

9/7

4

Ch. 3, 4

Blackbody

Photoelectric Effect

3

9/14

7

Ch. 4

Bohr Atom

Blackbody Radiation

4

9/21 

10

Ch. 4, 5

DeBroglie, Wavefunctions

Statistics

5

9/28 

13

Ch. 5

Uncertainty Principle,

Rules of QM

EXAM #1

6

10/5

16

Ch. 6

Schrodinger Equation, Free particle soln.

X-ray Bragg Spectroscopy

7

10/12 T

(Fall Break)

19

Ch. 6

Square wells, Qualitative solutions

8

10/19

22

Ch. 6

Qualitative Solutions

Electron Diffraction

9

10/26

24

Ch. 6

SHO, finite square well,

Step potentials

Michelson Interferometer

10

11/2

27

Ch. 7

Hydrogen Atom

Gamma Spectroscopy (NIM)

11

11/9

30

Ch. 7

Hydrogen Atom, Quantum Numbers

EXAM #2

12

11/16

33

Ch. 7

Quantum numbers, Spin, Periodic Table

Single Photon Counting

-

11/23

-

-

Thanksgiving Week

-

13

11/30

36

Ch. 7

Exclusion Principle, Transitions

ESR

14

12/7

37

Ch. 8

H structure,  angular momentum

Hydrogen Spectra

15

40

Ch. 8

Many-electron atoms, More angular momentum

Helium Spectra, Selection Rules