| Revised September 26, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| NOTE: blue text is past and black text is a tentative projection; with tentative quizzes and exam dates in red text | ||||||||||||
| (timing to be announced in lecture and on the WEB site). The final exam is in green text and is set by the UF schedule. | ||||||||||||
| PHY 3101 | Introduction to Modern Physics | Fall 2012 | ||||||||||
| Tentative Course Schedule: | ||||||||||||
| (subject to change) | ||||||||||||
| Week | Chapters to Read | HW problems | ||||||||||
| 1 | Wed. | Aug. 21 | Introduction to the course | 1 | ||||||||
| Fri. | Aug. 23 | Special Relativity | 2 | Chapter 2: 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 31 | ||||||||
| 2 | Mon. | Aug. 26 | Length contraction, Time Dilation, Lorentz Trans. | 2 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Aug. 28 | Velocity transformations, Doppler effect | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Aug. 30 | Relativistic Dynamics | Quiz 1 | Chapter 2: 45, 51, 54, 58, 61, 62, 64 | ||||||||
| 3 | Mon. | Sept. 2 | No Classes - Labor Day | 2 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Sept. 4 | 4- Vectors and Invariants | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Sept. 6 | Energy and Momentum | Quiz 2 | Chapter 2: 69, 70, 73, 76, 81, 83, 90, 109 | ||||||||
| 4 | Mon. | Sept. 9 | Gravitational Redshift | 3 | Sections 2.4, 2.8, 2.9 will not be on the exams. | |||||||
| Wed. | Sept. 11 | Particle Properties of Waves | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Sept. 13 | Black Body Radiation | Quiz 3 | Chapter 3: 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25 | ||||||||
| 5 | Mon. | Sept. 16 | Stefan-Boltzmann equation | |||||||||
| Wed. | Sept. 18 | Photo-electric effect, Xrays | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Sept. 20 | Compton Effect, Pair Prodction | Quiz 4 | Chapter 3: 29, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42, 47, 51, 52 | ||||||||
| 6 | Mon. | Sept. 23 | Wave Properties of Particles | 4 + CHAPTER 6, SECTION 4 | PLEASE READ CHAPTER 6, SECTION 4 | |||||||
| Wed. | Sept. 25 | Group/Phase Velocity | FOR GROUP AND PHASE VELOCITY. | |||||||||
| Fri. | Sept. 27 | Particle in a Box | Quiz 5 | Chapter 4: 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25 AND Chapt. 6: 45 | ||||||||
| 7 | Mon. | Sept. 30 | Nuclear Atom/Bohr Model | |||||||||
| Wed. | Oct. 2 | Schrödinger Equation | 5 (Skip 5.7 for now) | |||||||||
| Thurs. | Oct. 3 | Exam 1 E2-E3 (8:10 PM) NPB 1001 | Note that the room is 1001. | |||||||||
| Fri. | Oct. 4 | Square Well | Chapter 4: 54, 57; Chapter 5: 23, 24, 27, 30, 56, 78, 79, 80, 81. | |||||||||
| 8 | Mon. | Oct. 7 | Step Potential | 6 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Oct. 9 | Tunneling | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Oct. 11 | Quiz 6 | Chapter 5: 49, 50, 53, 90, Chapter 6: 18, 21, 22 | |||||||||
| 9 | Mon. | Oct. 14 | Harmonic Oscillator | 5.7 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Oct. 16 | |||||||||||
| Fri. | Oct. 18 | 3 D problems | Quiz 7 | |||||||||
| 10 | Mon. | Oct. 21 | Atomic Structure/Hydrogen Atom | 7 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Oct. 23 | |||||||||||
| Fri. | Oct. 25 | Quiz 8 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Mon. | Oct. 28 | Electron Spin | 8 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Oct. 30 | |||||||||||
| Fri. | Nov. 1 | Quiz 9 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Mon. | Nov. 4 | ||||||||||
| Wed. | Nov. 6 | Statistical Mechanics | 9 | |||||||||
| Thurs. | Nov. 7 | Exam 2 E2-E3 (8:10 PM) NPB 1002 | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Nov. 8 | No Classes - Homecoming | ||||||||||
| 13 | Mon. | Nov. 11 | No Classes - Veteran's Day | |||||||||
| Wed. | Nov. 13 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Nov. 15 | Quiz 10 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Mon. | Nov. 18 | Nuclear Physics | 11 | ||||||||
| Wed. | Nov. 20 | |||||||||||
| Fri. | Nov. 22 | Special Topics | Quiz 11 | |||||||||
| 15 | Mon. | Nov. 25 | ||||||||||
| Wed. | Nov. 27 | No Classes - Thanksgiving | ||||||||||
| Fri. | Nov. 29 | No Classes - Thanksgiving | ||||||||||
| 16 | Mon. | Dec. 2 | ||||||||||
| Wed. | Dec. 4 | |||||||||||
| Mon. | Dec. 9 | Final Exam 5:30 -7:30 PM | NPB 1002 | |||||||||