Lecture Notes

Piers Coleman, 2008

Num.	Date	Subject	2008	2005
0	Jan. 24	Introduction to course.	View
1	Jan. 24	Rays and Waves of light	View	View
2	Jan. 28	Geometrical Optics	View	View
3	Jan. 31	More Geometrical Optics; Interference	View	View
4	Feb 4	Interference of Light Waves	View  Extra	View
5	Feb. 7	Diffraction	View	View
6	Feb. 11	More Diffraction, Polarization	View	View
7	Feb. 14	Relativity and Michelson-Morley	View	View
8	Feb 18	Gedanken Experiments and Lorentz Transformations	View Videos to watch: Einstein's big idea Time Dilation	View
	Feb. 21	Review for Exam 1	View	View
9	Feb. 25	Energy and Momentum; Doppler Shift	View	View
10	Feb. 28	Breakdown of Classical Mechanics	View  Extra	View
	Mar 3,6	Catch - up.
11	Mar 10	Bohr Atom; Duality	View   Electron interference video	View
12A	March 13	Uncertainty Principle	View	View
12B	March 24	Probability, and uncertainty principle continued	Extra   Solvay Conference	View
	March 24 Evening	Review for Exam 2	View	View
13	March 27	Schrodinger's Equation. Wave Packets Particle in a box	View   Schrodinger applets.	View
14/15	March 31	Atomic Structure: Quantum nos of H Atom, Probability distns,  Zeeman Effect, atomic transitions.	View    + Extra + View H-atom applets.	View
16	April 3	Spin & Exclusion Principle, X-rays, (Lasers)	View
17	April 7	Molecules and Solids, Bands	View	View
18	April 10	Metals and Semiconductors	View
19	April 14	Nuclear Physics	View	View
20	April 17	Radioactivity, Decays, Nuclear Reactions	View	View
21	April 21	Decay Q Values, Fission	View	View
22	April 24	Fusion	View	View
23	April 28	High Energy Physics	View	View
24	May 1	Elementary Particles	View  Extra	View
25	May 5	Quarks and the Standard Model.	View Atlas Experiment	View
		Review for exam	View