Class	Subject	Textbook chapter	Homework
8/21	Introduction	1.0	HW1, essay due 8/26
8/26	Class cancelled because of water line breakage
8/28	Relativity: Galilean transformations	1.2, 1.3.1 to 1.3.3
9/2	Relativity: Michelson-Morley experiment, constancy of the speed of light, relativity of time	1.3.4 and 1.3.5	Solutions HW2 due 9/9
9/4	Relativity: maximum speed, Lorentz transformations in space-time and velocity	1.3.6. and 1.3.7
9/9	Relativity: momentum, energy and the inertia of energy	1.3.7 and 1.3.8	Solutions HW3 due 9/16
9/11	Relativity: relativistic energy-momentum relation Quantum physics: photo-electric effect. Class taught by Dr Busenitz
9/16	Photoelectric effect, black body radiation and Planck's radiation law	2.1 and 2.2	Solutions HW4 due 9/23
9/18	Black body radiation and cosmology, Compton scattering	2.3 and 2.4
9/23	x-rays, wave properties of particles, de Broglie relation, electron diffraction	2.4	Solutions HW5 due 9/30
9/25	De Broglie relation, electron microscopes, wave package, phase and group velocities, uncertainty principle
9/30	Uncertainty principle, statistical interpretation of matter waves		No HW
10/2	Midterm exam
10/7	The Schrödinger equation
10/9	No class, study break
10/14	Solutions of the Schrödinger equation: free particle, infinite potential well	2.4.5 to 2.4.7	Solutions HW6 due 10/21
10/16	Solutions of the Schrödinger equation: finite potential well, tunneling	3.1 and 3.2
10/21	Solutions of the Schrödinger equation: Gamow's model of alpha decay, 2-dim potential well, harmonic oscillator, historic models of the atom	3.1 to 3.3	Solutions HW7 due 10/28
10/23	Rutherford scattering, early models of the atom
10/28	The Bohr and quantum mechanical models of the hydrogen atom	3.4	Solutions HW8 due 11/4
10/30	Location of the electron in the hydrogen atom, angular momentum in quantum mechanics Class taught by Dr Busenitz
11/4	The physical interpretation of the hydrogen qunatum numbers, Zeeman effect, selection rules in radiative transitions		Solutions HW9 due 11/11
11/6	Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin	3.4.4 to 3.4.8
11/11	Many electron atoms, Thomas-Fermi model, the Hartree method, Pauli principle, Hund's rule		No HW
11/13	x-rays, Mosley's law, statistical distributions
11/18	Quantum statistics		HW10 due 11/25
11/20	Nuclear physics	5.1
11/25	Nuclear physics, nuclear force, liquid drop model
11/27	No class, Thanksgiving
12/2	Radioactive decays, exponential decay law
12/4	Nuclear fission and fusion, elementary particles
12/8	Final exam