PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Prelecture notes

Prelecture notes should be read before class. Read the unit that corresponds to the lecture.

Week Date Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs / Labs Discussions Homework
1
Monday
6/14/2021
Checkpoint 1
Unit 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf
  Discussion 1 Solutions  
Tuesday
6/15/2021
Checkpoint 2 Unit 2:
Phasors and Interference
pdf

Lab 0: Orientation
Group A
   
Wednesday
6/16/2021
Checkpoint 3 Unit 2 continued:
Interference continued
pdf
  Week 2:  Interference
solutions
Homework 1 due
Thursday
6/17/2021
Checkpoint 4 Unit 3:
Diffraction
pdf    overflow-pdf
Lab 0: Orientation
Group B
   
Friday
6/18/2021
        Homework 2 due
Homework 3 due
2
Monday
6/21/2021
Checkpoint 5 Unit 4:
Photons
pdf
  Week 3:  Single-Slit Diffraction
and the Properties of Photons
solutions

 
Tuesday
6/22/2021
Checkpoint 6 Unit 5 & 6:
Probability & complex numbers
The wave function, part 1
pdf
Prelab 1 due
Lab 1: Photons
Group A
   
Wednesday
6/23/2021
Checkpoint 7 Unit 6 & 7:
The wave function, part 2
Momentum & position
pdf
  Week 4:  The Wave Function 
Description of Light
solutions
Homework 4 due
Homework 5 due
Thursday
6/24/2021
Checkpoint 8 Unit 8:
Energy eigenstates
(Time independent Schroedinger equation)
pdf
Prelab 1 due
Lab 1: Photons
Group B
   
Friday
6/25/2021
        Homework 6 due
Midterm Practice
Problems
3
Monday
6/28/2021
  Review for Midterm
pdf
  Week 5:  Wave Functions with
Definite Properties
solutions
 
Tuesday
6/29/2021
Checkpoint 9 Unit 9:
Harmonic Oscillator
pdf
Prelab 2 due
Lab 2: Atomic Spectra
Group A
   
Tuesday
6/29/2021
Mid-Term Exam, 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm  
Wednesday
6/30/2021
Checkpoint 10 Unit 10:
Time-Dependent Quantum States
pdf
  Week 6:  Energy Levels and
Time Dependence
solutions
 
Thursday
7/1/2021
Checkpoint 11 Unit 11:
Tunneling and Coupled wells
pdf
Prelab 2 due
Lab 2: Atomic Spectra
Group B
  Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
Friday
7/2/2021
        Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due

 
4
Monday
7/5/2021
holiday, no classes —   
Tuesday
7/6/2021
Checkpoint 12 Unit 12:
Many electrons and band structure
pdf
No Lab Groups A & B    
Wednesday
7/7/2021
  Final review
pdf
  Week 7:  Tunnelling and More
than One Particle
solutions
Homework 11 due
Homework 12 due
Thursday
7/8/2021
         
Friday
7/9/2021
Final