Class meets in SUPP 130 from 9:00 - 9:50 AM. Office hours are 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM in RFM 3205 or by appointment. See Dr. Galloway's home page for more information. NOTE! Exam dates are not the same as on original schedule.
Schedule - subject to change
| Date | Event | Topics/Reading |
| 8/25/04 | Simultaneity, time dilation, and length contraction | |
| 8/27/04 | Lorentz Transformation Equations | |
| 8/30/04 | Velocity transformation | |
| 9/1/04 | HW 1 due | Relativistic momentum |
| 9/3/04 | Relativistic energy | |
| 9/6/04 | no class, Labor Day | ---- |
| 9/8/04 | HW 2 due | Conservation of relativistic energy and momentum |
| 9/10/04 | Review Sheet for Exam 1 | Quantum Theory of Light, Photoelectric Effect |
| 9/13/04 | Blackbody radiation | |
| 9/15/04 | HW 3 due | Quantization |
| 9/17/04 | EXAM 1 | ----- |
| 9/20/04 | Matter as waves, double slit interference, DeBroglie equation | |
| 9/22/04 | HW 4 due | Math review, Schrodinger's eqn for free particle in 1-D |
| 9/24/04 | Particle Nature of Matter - Early experiments | |
| 9/27/04 | Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, probability amplitude | |
| 9/29/04 | HW 5 due | Simple solutions to Schrodinger's equation |
| 10/1/04 | Review Sheet for Exam 2 | Particle in a box |
| 10/4/04 | Observables and operators again | |
| 10/6/04 | HW 6 due | Uncertainty calculations |
| 10/8/04 | EXAM 2 | ---- |
| 10/11/04 | Unbound problems | |
| 10/13/04 | HW 7 due | Tunneling |
| 10/15/04 | More Tunneling | |
| 10/18/04 | Scanning tunneling microscope and lab tour | |
| 10/20/04 | HW 8 due | Probability calculations |
| 10/22/04 | Quantum Mechanics in 3-D | |
| 10/25/04 | Hydrogen atom - quantum numbers | |
| 10/27/04 | HW 9 due | More quantum numbers, chemistry relations |
| 10/29/04 | Calculations using hydrogen atom wave functions | |
| 11/1/04 | Review Sheet for Exam 3 | Observables and operators |
| 11/3/04 | HW 10 due | More hydrogen |
| 11/5/04 | Transitions in hydrogen | |
| 11/8/04 | EXAM 3 | |
| 11/10/04 | Stern Gerlach and spin | |
| 11/12/04 | HW 11 due | Identical particles symmetrization, angular momentum |
| 11/15/04 | Spin orbit | |
| 11/17/04 | Adding angular momentum | |
| 11/19/04 | HW 12 due | LS coupling |
| 11/22/04 | Atomic physics | |
| 11/24/04 | No Class | No Class |
| 11/26/04 | No Class | No Class |
| 11/29/04 | Review Sheet for Exam 4 | Summary and Practice Atomic levels |
| 12/1/04 | Review for Exam 4 | |
| 12/3/04 | EXAM 4 - HW 13 due | |
| 12/6/04 | Last Class Day | Review for Final Exam |
| 12/13/04 | Final | 8:00 – 10:30 AM |