| Week | Lec | Date | Subject | Take notice! |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIT 1: CLASSICAL PHYSICS | ||||
| 1 | 1 | W Sep 3 | The Earliest Science: Seasons and the Moon | Print Web materials! |
| 2 | F Sep 5 | Demystifying the Heavens: Tycho, Kepler, Galileo | ||
| 2 | 3 | M Sep 8 | Two Leaps of Logic: Galileo | |
| 4 | W Sep 10 | Falling Motion: Galileo's Kinematics | Last day to drop w/o record | |
| 5 | F Sep 12 | Three Great Principles: Galileo | Last day to add | |
| 3 | 6 | M Sep 15 | Conservation of Momentum: Descartes and Huygens | |
| 7 | W Sep 17 | Three Great Laws of Motion: Newton's Dynamics | HW 1A and Surveys DUE | |
| 8 | F Sep 19 | The Universal Law of Gravitation: Newton | ||
| 4 | 9 | M Sep 22 | Conservation of Energy | HW 1A back |
| 10 | W Sep 24 | Electric & Magnetic Forces & Fields: Coulomb, Ampère, & Faraday | ||
| 11 | F Sep 26 | The First Unified Field Theory: Maxwell | END OF UNIT 1 | |
| UNIT 2: WAVES AND RELATIVITY | ||||
| 5 | 12 | M Sep 29 | Waves: Simple Behavior of a Simple System | |
| 13 | W Oct 1 | Sound: Mechanical Waves in a Medium | HW 1B DUE | |
| 14 | F Oct 3 | Light: Electromagnetic Waves in a Field | Rosh Hashanah Oct 2 | |
| 6 | 15 | M Oct 6 | Chaos: Complex Behavior of a Simple System | HW 1B back |
| Rev | M Oct 6 | REVIEW SESSION, 7:00-8:30 pm, 1300 Sterling | Use Review Sheet 1 | |
| Ex | T Oct 7 | EXAM ON UNIT 1 (Lecs 1-11), 7:15-9:15 pm, Rooms 1300, 1313 Sterling, 1 page notes allowed | EXAM 1 | |
| 16 | W Oct 8 | Light Waves are Different: the Famous Missing Gamma Factor | ||
| 17 | F Oct 10 | The Two Postulates of Special Relativity: Einstein | Yom Kippur Oct 11 | |
| 7 | 18 | M Oct 13 | Gedanken Experiments on Simultaneity and Length | Exam 1 back |
| 19 | W Oct 15 | Gedanken Experiments on Clocks and Time | HW 2A DUE | |
| 20 | F Oct 17 | Spacetime: Gamma Factor Effects and Time as the 4th Dimension | ||
| 8 | 21 | M Oct 20 | Spacetime Diagrams | HW 2A back |
| 22 | W Oct 22 | E= mc²: Energy and Mass are Equivalent | ||
| 23 | F Oct 24 | E= mc²: Bombs, Stars, and Reactors | ||
| 9 | 24 | M Oct 27 | Relativity in Action: Big Gamma Factors | |
| 25 | W Oct 29 | The Equivalence Principle: Einstein | HW 2B DUE | |
| 26 | F Oct 31 | Curved Spacetime: Physics is Math | Last day to drop | |
| 10 | 27 | M Nov 3 | Big Bang Cosmology | HW 2B back |
| 28 | W Nov 5 | Black Holes and Dark Matter in the Universe: ``Seeing'' the Very Large | END OF UNIT 2 | |
| UNIT 3: QUANTUM PHYSICS | ||||
| 29 | F Nov 7 | Atoms, Electrons, and Nuclei: ``Seeing'' the Very Small | HW 2C DUE | |
| 11 | 30 | M Nov 10 | The Quantum Physics of Light: Planck, Spectra of Solids | HW 2C back |
| Rev | M Nov 10 | REVIEW SESSION, 7:00-8:30 pm, 1300 Sterling | Use Review Sheet 2 | |
| Ex | T Nov 11 | EXAM ON UNIT 2 (Lecs 12-28), 7:15-9:15 pm, Rooms 1300, 1313 Sterling, 1 page notes allowed | EXAM 2 | |
| 31 | W Nov 12 | Waves are Particles: Einstein, the Photoelectric Effect | ||
| 32 | F Nov 14 | The Quantum Physics of Matter: Bohr, the Hydrogen Atom | ||
| 12 | 33 | M Nov 17 | Particles are Waves: deBroglie, Schrödinger, and Born | Exam 2 back |
| 34 | W Nov 19 | The Uncertainty Principle: Heisenberg | Print Unit 3 notes!! | |
| 35 | F Nov 21 | Quantum Physics in Action: Superconductivity | HW 3A DUE, Last Day to Withdraw | |
| 13 | 36 | M Nov 24 | Quantum Physics in the Sky: Sunsets, Ozone, Greenhouse Effect | |
| 37 | W Nov 26 | Quantized Energy Levels: Lasers and Atomic Clocks | ||
| Hol | F Nov 28 | THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO LECTURE FRI | ||
| 14 | 38 | M Dec 1 | Quantum Electronics and Computer Chips | HW 3A back |
| 39 | W Dec 3 | Quantum Field Theory: Feynman's Dynamics | ||
| 40 | F Dec 5 | Nature's Building Blocks: Particles, Quarks, and Leptons | ||
| 15 | 41 | M Dec 8 | The Four Forces: Gauge Bosons | |
| 42 | W Dec 10 | Inner Space/Outer Space: Particle Physics Meets Cosmology | ||
| 43 | F Dec 12 | The Nobel Prize: Tracing the Ideas of Modern Physics; Course Evaluation done by Web Surveys | HW 3B and Surveys DUE; END OF UNIT 3 | |
| EXAM WEEK | ||||
| 16 | Rev | W Dec 17 | REVIEW SESSION, 7:00-8:30 pm, 1300 Sterling | HW 3B back, Use Review Sheet 3 |
| Ex | R Dec 18 | EXAM ON UNIT 3 (Lecs 29-43), 12:25-2:25 pm, Rooms 1300, 1313 Sterling, 1 page notes allowed | ||
| Gr | F Dec 19 | Final Grades finished, noon, 4205 Chamberlin | Grades | |
Revised August 31, 1997.