| * | Jan. 17 M | MLK Day |
| 1 | Jan. 25 Tu | Ch. 17:17.1-17.4 |
| 2 | Jan. 27 Th | Ch. 17:17.5-17.7 |
| * | Jan. 31 M (EOB) | Last day to add |
| 3 | Feb. 1 Tu | Ch. 18:18.1-18.4 |
| 4 | Feb. 3 Th | Ch. 18:18.5-18.6 and Ch. 19:19.1 |
| 5 | Feb. 8 Tu | Ch. 19:19.2-19.5 |
| 6 | Feb. 10 Th | Ch. 19:19.6-19.8 and Ch. 20:20.1 |
| 7 | Feb. 15 Tu | Ch. 20:20.2-20.5 |
| * | Feb. 14 M (EOB) | Last Day to Drop (50% Refund) |
| 8 | Feb. 17 Th | Ch. 20:20.6-20.8 |
| 9 | Feb. 22 Tu | Ch. 33:33.1-33.2 |
| 10 | Feb. 24 Th | Exam #1 (Ch.17 - Ch. 20) |
| 11 | Mar. 1 Tu | Ch. 33:33.3-33.5 |
| 12 | Mar. 3 Th | Ch. 33:33.5-33.7 and Ch. 34:34.1-34.2 |
| * | Mar. 7 M | Midterm reporting available |
| 13 | Mar. 8 Tu | Ch. 34:34.2-34.3 |
| 14 | Mar. 10 Th | Ch. 34:34.4-34.8 (Optical Instruments will only be covered briefly in lecture.) |
| * | Mar. 14 - 20 | Spring Break |
| 15 | Mar. 22 Tu | Ch. 35:35.1-35.2 |
| 16 | Mar. 24 Th | Ch. 35:35.3-35.5 |
| 17 | Mar. 29 Tu | Ch. 36:36.1-36.4 |
| 18 | Mar. 31 Th | Ch. 36:36.5-36.8 |
| 19 | Apr. 5 Tu | Ch. 37:37.1-37.2 |
| 20 | Apr. 7 Th | Exam #2 (Ch. 33 - Ch.36) |
| * | Note | A very good book on the physics of spacetime by Brian Green, a physics professor from Columbia University is The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2005). This is a very enjoyable supplemental reading taking you beyond what we are covering in class. |
| 21 | Apr. 12 Tu | Ch. 37:37.3-37.4 |
| 22 | Apr. 14 Th | Ch. 37:37.5-37.7 |
| 23 | Apr. 19 Tu | Ch. 37:37.7-37.9 |
| 24 | Apr. 21 Th | Ch. 38:38.1-38.3 |
| 25 | Apr. 26 Tu | Ch. 38:38.4 and Ch. 39>39.1-39.3 |
| * | Note | A very readable book on the frontier of modern physics by one of our GMU physics faculty is available: Robert Oerter, The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics (Pi Press, 2005). This is a good supplemental reading if you want to learn more about quarks, QED, Feynman diagrams, and strings. |
| * | Note | For the remaining three classes, we will go through Chapters 40-41 with less details. It is meant to be an overview on some special topics in modern physics. |
| 26 | Apr. 28 Th | Ch. 39:39.3-39.5 |
| 27 | May 3 Tu | Ch. 39:39.5-39.6 and Ch. 40:40.1 |
| 28 | May 5 Th | Ch. 40:40.2-40.5 and Ch. 41:41.1- 41.6 |
| 29 | May 10 Tu | Tenative Review day |
| 30 | May 12 Th | Final Exam (7:30a-10:15a) |