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Week Date Prelecture reading Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs / Labs Discussions Homework Exams
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Monday
8/21/2023
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1 Unit 1:
Waves and Wave Equations
pdf
       
Tuesday
8/22/2023
      No lab activities
this week

Discussion 1
Discussion 1 solutions

   
Wednesday
8/23/2023
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2 Unit 2:
Interference
pdf
   
Thursday
8/24/2023
         
Friday
8/25/2023
    Examples
pdf
   
2
Monday
8/28/2023
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3 Unit 3:
Diffraction
pdf
       
Tuesday
8/29/2023
      Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Interference and
Diffraction
Discussion 2
Discussion 2 solutions
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Wednesday
8/30/2023
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4 Unit 4:
Photons
pdf
   
Thursday
8/31/2023
         
Friday
9/1/2023
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5 Unit 5:
Probability and Complex Numbers
pdf
   
3
Monday
9/4/2023
             
Tuesday
9/5/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 3
Discussion 3 solutions
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
 
Wednesday
9/6/2023
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6 Unit 6:
The Wave Function
pdf
   
Thursday
9/7/2023
         
Friday
9/8/2023
    Examples
pdf
   
4
Monday
9/11/2023
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7

Unit 7:
Momentum and Position

 pdf

      Exam 1 (10 September through 13 September )
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Tuesday
9/12/2023
      Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Photons
Discussion 4
Discussion 4 solutions
Homework 5 due
Homework 6 due
Exam 1 (10 September through 13 September )
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Wednesday
9/13/2023
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8 Unit 8:
Energy eigenstates
(Time independent Schroedinger equation)
pdf
  Exam 1 (10 September through 13 September )
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Thursday
9/14/2023
         
Friday
9/15/2023
    Examples
pdf
   
5
Monday
9/18/2023
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9 Unit 9:
Harmonic oscillator
pdf
       
Tuesday
9/19/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 5
Discussion 5 solutions
Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
 
Wednesday
9/20/2023
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Unit 10:
Multiple electrons
pdf
   
Thursday
9/21/2023
         
Friday
9/22/2023
    Examples
pdf
   
6
Monday
9/25/2023
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Unit 11:
Band structure
pdf
      Exam 2 (24 September through 27 September )
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Tuesday
9/26/2023
      Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Atomic Spectra
Discussion 6
Discussion 6 solutions
Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due
Exam 2 (24 September through 27 September )
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Wednesday
9/27/2023
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12 Unit 12:
Polarization and spin
pdf
  Exam 2 (24 September through 27 September )
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Thursday
9/28/2023
         
Friday
9/29/2023
    Examples
pdf
   
7
Monday
10/2/2023
   

 

Molecules and superconductors 
pdf

No lab activities
this week
     
Tuesday
10/3/2023
      Discussion 7
Discussion 7 solutions
   
Wednesday
10/4/2023
    Final review
pdf
Homework 11 due
Homework 12 due
 
Thursday
10/5/2023
        Final Exam  (5 October through 8 October)
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Friday
10/6/2023
    NO LECTURE   Final Exam  (5 October through 8 October)
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Monday
10/9/2023