Download PHY 3101 Spring 2006 Course Schedule and more Assignments Physics in PDF only on Docsity! PHY 3101 Schedule Spring 2006 (Subject to Change) Week Material Reading Assignment Homework Assignment Announcements Course Introduction Syllabus, Policies #1: Jan 9 Chapter 1: Relativity I Experimental Basis, Einstein Postulates Chapter 1.1 – 1.5 Chapter 1: Relativity I Lorentz Transformations, Time Dilation and Length Contraction Doppler Effect #2: Jan. 16 Chapter 2: Relativity II Relativistic Momentum Chapter 1.6, 2.1-2.4 Problem Set 1 Due Fri., Jan. 20 MLK Day No class Monday, Jan. 16 Chapter 2: Relativity II Energy, Mass-Energy Conservation, (Invariant Mass) #3: Jan. 23 Chapter 3: Quanta Charge quantization, blackbody radiation Chapter 3.1-3.4 Problem Set 2 Due Fri. Jan. 27 Chapter 3: Quanta photoelectric effect, X-rays and Compton effect #4: Jan. 30 Chapter 4: Nuclear Atom Atomic Spectra, Rutherford model Chapter 4.1 – 4.6 Problem Set 3 Due Fri., Feb. 3 Chapter 4: Nuclear Atom Bohr model, X-ray spectra, (Franck- Hertz experiment) #5: Feb. 6 Chapter 5: Particles as Waves de Broglie waves and measurements Chapter 5.1-5.5 Exam 1: Friday, Feb 10 Chapters 1-3 #6: Feb. 13 Chapter 5: Particles as Waves wave packets, wave functions, probability, uncertainty principle and consequences, wave-particle duality Chapter 5.6, 5.7 Problem Set 4 Due Fri., Feb. 17 #7: Feb. 20 Chapter 6: Schrodinger Equation 1D infinite square well, expectation values and operators Chapter 6.1-6.6 Problem Set 5 Due Fri., Feb. 24 Chapter 6: Schrodinger Equation simple harmonic oscillator, reflection and transmission of waves #8: Feb. 27 Chapter 7: Atomic Physics 3D Schrodinger equation Chapter 7.1-7.3 Problem Set 6 Due Fri., Mar. 3 #9: Mar. 6 quantization of angular momentum and energy, hydrogen wave functions, electron spin Chapter 7.4-7.5 Exam 2: Friday, Mar 10 Chapters 4-6 MARCH 11-18, SPRING BREAK #10: Mar. 20 Chapter 7: Atomic Physics total angular momentum, spin-orbit coupling, 2 particle SE Chapter 7.6 Problem Set 7 Due Fri., Mar. 24
