Chapter 1:  Foundations of Special Relativity  (Aug 29+31, Sept 05+07)

• Principle of Relativity
  
• Michelson-Morley Experiment
• Postulates of Special Relativity
• Time Dilation and Length Contraction
• Lorentz Transformation

 Chapter 2:  Quantitative Special Relativity  (Sept 12+14+19)

• Relativistic Momentum and Newton's Laws
• Total Relativistic Energy and Mass
  
• Energy-Momentum Conservation
• General Relativity

----     Midterm Exam-1  (Thu, Sept 21)     ---- 

 Chapter 3:  Quantum Theory of Light  (Sept 26,28 + Oct 03)

• Hertz Experiment: Light as an Electromagnetic Wave
• Blackbody Radiation and Planck's Quantum of Energy
• Photoelectric Effect and Light Quantization
• Compton Effect and X-Rays
• Wave-Particle Complementarity

 Chapter 4:  The Particle Nature of Matter  (Oct 05,10,12+17) 

• Atomic Nature of Matter
• Experimental Insights into the Composition of Atoms
• Atomic Spectra and Bohr Model of the Atom
• Correspondence Principle and Quantization of Angular Momentum
• Franck-Hertz Experiment: Confirmation of Atomic Levels

----     Midterm Exam-2  (Thu, Oct 19)     ---- 

 Chapter 5:  Matter Waves   (Oct 24,26+31) 

• de Broglie Waves
• Davisson-Germer Experiment
• Theoretical Description of Matter Wave Packets
• Fourier Decomposition
• Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
• Particle-Wave Duality

 Chapter 6:  Quantum Mechanics in One Dimension   (Nov 02,07,09+14)

• Born Interpretation of the Wave Function
• Wave Function of a Free Particle
• Schroedinger Equation
• Particles in Potentials: Box, Square-Well, Oscillator
• Operators, Expectation Values and Observables

Chapter 7:  Tunneling Phenomena   (Nov 16)

• Square Barrier Scattering
• Applications of Barrier Penetration

----     Midterm Exam-3   (Tue, Nov 21)     ---- 

Chapter 13:  Nuclear Physics   (Nov 28+30, Dec 05)

• Properties of Nuclei
• Nuclear Forces and Binding
• Models of the Nucleus
• Radioactivity

----     Final Exam   (Wed Dec 13, 3:30-5:30pm)     ----