Chapter 1:  Foundations of Special Relativity  (Aug 27,29, Sept 03,05)

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

 Chapter 2:  Quantitative Special Relativity  (Sept 10,12,17)

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

 Chapter 3:  Quantum Theory of Light  (Sept 19,24,26)

• 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 01,03,08,10) 

• 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

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 Chapter 5:  Matter Waves   (Oct 17,22,24) 

• 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   (Oct 29,31, Nov 05,07)

• 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 12,14)

• Square Barrier Scattering
• Applications of Barrier Penetration

----     Midterm Exam-2   (Nov 19)     ---- 

Chapter 13:  Nuclear Physics   (Nov 26+28)

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

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