| Date | Topic | Lab |
| January 27 | Electricity and Magnetism - an overview |
no lab |
| February 3 | 2 labs introducing Electric and Magnetic fields | Electric Fields
Magnetic Fields |
| February 10 | Thompson's corpuscle: The discovery of the Electron
Is charge descrete? |
Thomson's e/m experiment |
| February 17 | The electron's mass
Quantization of charge proved |
Millikan's oil drop experiment |
| February 24 | Light as a particle: energy quantization | Photoelectric Effect |
| March 3 | A bit of Quantum Mechanics
- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - Particles as waves? |
no lab |
| March 10 | Light still has wave properties - What about electrons? - wave mechanics |
Diffraction and Interference |
| March 24 | Evolution of models of the atom
- Thompson's plum pudding model - Rutherford scattering and model | Rutherford Scattering |
| March 31 | Atomic Models continued
- Balmer series of hydrogen |
Hydrogen Spectrum |
| April 14 | A bit more Quantum Mechanics
- the wave particle duality - de Broglie and matter waves | Matter Wave excersize |
| April 21 | Models of the nucleus
- studies of nuclear radiation |
Beta/Gamma Radiation |
| April 28 | Particle physics today - Particle accelerators and detectors - Standard Model part I - QED |
no lab |
| May 5 last class |
Nuclear physics today - Heavy ion experiments - Standard Model part II - QCD - the Quark Gluon Plasma |
physics crossword puzzle evaluations |
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