Lecture Plan

Note: The lecture plan is tentative and subjected to possible modification.

Topic and No. of lecture

Scheduled date

Extra   reading materials

CHAPTER 1:
Special theory of Relativity

154 PPT.

8 lectures

17 Dec 07 (Mon) - Briefing, no lecture

19 Dec 07 (Wed)- Lecture 1

21 Dec 07 (Fri)- Lecture 2

24 Dec 07 (Mon)- Lecture 3

26 Dec 07 (Wed)- Lecture 4

28 Dec 07 (Fri)- Tutorial 1

31 Dec 07 (Mon)- Lecture 5

2 Jan 08 (Wed)- Lecture 6

4 Jan 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 2

7 Jan 08 (Mon)- Lecture 7

9 Jan 08 (Wed)- Lecture 8

 

The development of Physics and Modern Physics

Michelson Morley experiment

Ether

Relativity

Time

"Relativistic mass?", by Okun

 

CHAPTER 2:
PROPERTIES OF WAVES AND MATTER,
BLACK BODY RADIATION

77 PPT

4 lectures

 

 

11 Jan 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 3

14 Jan 08 (Mon)- Lecture 9

16 Jan 08 (Wed)- Lecture 10

18 Jan 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 4

21 Jan 08 (Mon)- Lecture 11

23 Jan 08 (Wed)- Public Holiday (Thaipusum)

Extra class to make up for lecture 12 - date to be fixed

Electromagnetic waves: photon photoelectric effect

X-rays

Diffraction

X-ray diffraction

 

CHAPTER 3:

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES
FOR PARTICLE-LIKE PROPERTIES OF WAVES

137 PPT

7 lectures

25 Jan 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 5

28 Jan 08 (Mon)- Lecture 13

30 Jan 08 (Wed)- Lecture 14

1 Feb 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 6

3 Feb 08 - 10 Feb 07: Midterm Break

11 Feb 08 (Mon)- self-declared holiday

13 Feb 08 (Wed)- Lecture 15

15 Feb 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 7

18 Feb 08 (Mon)- Lecture 16

20 Feb 08 (Wed)- Lecture 17

22 Feb 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 8

25 Feb 08 (Mon)- Lecture 18

Extra class to make up for lecture 19 - date to be fixed

 

CHAPTER 4:

The wavelike properties of particles

65 PPT

3.5 lectures

 

 

27 Feb 08 (Wed)- Lecture 20

29 Feb 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 9

3 Mar 08 (Mon)- Lecture 21

5 Mar 08 (Wed)- Lecture 22

7 Mar 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 10

Quantum theory

 

CHAPTER 5:

Atomic Models

84 PPT

4.5 lectures

 

 

 

 

10 Mar 08 (Mon)- Lecture 23

12 Mar 08 (Wed)-Lecture 24

14 Mar 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 11

17 Mar 08 (Mon)- Lecture 25

19 Mar 08 (Wed)- Lecture 26

Extra class to make up for lecture 27 - date to be fixed

Quantum Atom

Chapter 6:

A very brief introduction to Quantum Mechanics

65 PPT

3 lectures

 

21 Mar 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 12

24 Mar 08 (Mon)- Lecture 28

26 Mar 08 (Wed)- Lecture 29

28 Mar 08 (Fri)- Tutorial 13

Extra class to make up for lecture 30 - date to be fixed

Introduction to quantum mechanics
   

Meeting times (for the whole semester): 26 normal hour lecture + 4 extra classes

Tutorial = 13 times, on every Fridays, except the first week of the semester.

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Roughly 20 pages of PowerPoint notes is to be covered per lecture.