Calendar
Week | Date | Prelecture reading | Checkpoints | Lectures and Recordings | Prelabs / Labs | Discussions | Homework | Exams |
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1 |
Tuesday
2/18/2025 |
Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | Unit 1: Waves and Wave Equations | No lab activities this week | Discussion 1 | Homework 1 | |
Friday 2/21/2025 |
Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | Unit 2: Interference | Homework 2 | ||||
2 |
Tuesday
2/25/2025 |
Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Unit 3: Diffraction | Lab 1: Interference and Diffraction | Discussion 2 | Homework 3 | |
Friday 2/28/2025 |
Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Unit 4: Photons | Homework 4 | ||||
3 |
Tuesday
3/4/2025 |
Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | Unit 5: Probability and Complex Number | Lab 2: Photons | Discussion 3 | Homework 5 | Mid-term Exam 1 (Friday) |
Friday 3/7/2025 |
Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | Unit 6: The Wave Function | Homework 6 | ||||
4 |
Tuesday
3/11/2025 |
Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | Unit 7: Momentum and Position | Lab 3: Simulation | Discussion 4 | Homework 7 | |
Friday 3/14/2025 |
Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | Unit 8: Energy Eigenstates (Time independent Schrodinger equation) |
Homework 8 | ||||
5 |
Tuesday
3/18/2025 |
Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Unit 9: Harmonic Oscillator | Lab 4: Atomic Spectra | Discussion 5 | Homework 9 | Mid-term Exam 2 (Friday) |
Friday 3/21/2025 |
Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Unit 10: Multiple Electrons | Homework 10 | ||||
6 |
Tuesday
3/25/2025 |
Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Unit 11: Band Structure | Discussion 6 | Homework 11 | ||
Friday 3/28/2025 |
Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 | Unit 12: Polarization and Spin | Homework 12 | ||||
7 |
Tuesday
4/1/2025 |
Final Review | No lab activities this week | Discussion 7 | Final Exam (April 27) | |||
Friday 4/4/2025 |
Optional: Quantum Entanglement, Molecules, and Superconductors (Tomb-Sweeping Day: no class) |