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| Jan. 15 M
| Martin Luther King Day |
| 1
| Jan. 23 Tu
| Ch. 17:17.1-17.4
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| 2
| Jan. 25 Th
| Ch. 17:17.5-17.7
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| *
| Jan. 29 Tu (EOB)
| Last day to add |
| 3
| Jan. 30 Tu
| Ch. 18:18.1-18.4 |
| 4
| Feb. 1 Th
| Ch. 18:18.5-18.6 and Ch. 19:19.1 |
| 5
| Feb. 6 Tu
| Ch. 19:19.2-19.5
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| 6
| Feb. 8 Th
| Ch. 19:19.6-19.8 and Ch. 20:20.1 |
| 7
| Feb. 13 Tu
| Ch. 20:20.2-20.5 |
| 8
| Feb. 15 Th
| Ch. 20:20.6-20.8 |
| 9
| Feb. 20 Tu
| Ch. 33:33.1-33.2
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| 10
| Feb. 22 Th
| Exam #1 (Ch.17 - Ch. 20)
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| *
| Feb. 23 Fr
(EOB)
| Final Drop Deadline |
| 11
| Feb. 27 Tu
| Ch. 33:33.3-33.5 |
| 12
| Mar. 1 Th
| Ch. 33:33.5-33.7 and Ch. 34:34.1-34.2 |
| *
| Mar. 5 M
| Midterm reporting available
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| 13
| Mar. 6 Tu
| Ch. 34:34.2-34.3
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| 14
| Mar. 8 Th
| Ch. 34:34.4-34.8 (Optical Instruments will only be covered briefly in lecture.) |
| *
| Mar. 12 - 18
| Spring Break |
| 15
| Mar. 20 Tu
| Ch. 35:35.1-35.2 |
| 16
| Mar. 22Th
| Ch. 35:35.3-36.5 |
| 17
| Mar. 27 Tu
| Ch. 36:36.1-36.4 |
| 18
| Mar. 29 Th
| Ch. 36:36.5-36.8 |
| 19
| Apr. 3 Tu
| Ch. 37:37.1-37.2 |
| 20
| Apr. 5 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.
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| 21
| Apr. 10 Tu
| Ch. 37:37.3-37.4 |
| 22
| Apr. 12 Th
| Ch. 37:37.5-37.7 |
| 23
| Apr. 17 Tu
| Ch. 37:37.7-37.9 and Ch. 38:38.1 |
| 24
| Apr. 19Th
| Ch. 38:38.2-38.5 |
| 25
| Apr. 24 Tu
| Ch. 38:38.5-38.8 |
| *
| 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.
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| *
| 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.
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| 26
| Apr. 26 Th
| Ch. 38:38.5-38.9 and Ch. 39:39.1 |
| 27
| May 1 Tu
| Ch. 39:39.2-39.5 and Ch. 41:40.1 |
| 28
| May 3 Th
| Ch. 40:40.2-40.5 and Ch. 41:41.1- 41.5
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| 29
| May 8 Tu
| Review day Krasnow Institute Conference Room |
| 30
| May 15 Th
| Final Exam (10:30am - 1:15pm) |