Calendar and lecture notes

PowerPoint lecture notes are downloadable in the following. Click on the topics below to download them.

Note: The planned schedule is tentative and subjected to possible modification.

*Note:  The night classes scheduled on 7 selected Tuesday, noted with a star (*), are subjected to last-minute change. The night classes will be held in SK1, from 8.30pm-10.00pm.

Topic and No. of lecture

Scheduled date

Extra   reading materials
CHAPTER 1:
Special theory of Relativity

154 PPT.

8 lectures

18 Dec 06 (Mon) - Briefing, no lecture

20 Dec 06 (Wed)- Lecture 1

22 Dec 06 (Fri)- Lecture 2

25 Dec 06 (Mon)- Holidays, no lecture

27 Dec 06 (Mon)- On Leave, no lecture

29 Dec 06 (Fri)- Lecture 3

1 Jan 07 (Mon)- Holidays, no lecture

3 Jan 07 (Wed)- Lecture 4

5 Jan 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

8 Jan 07 (Mon)- Lecture 5

9 Jan 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 6 (venue: SK1)

10 Jan 07 (Wed)- Lecture 7

12 Jan 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

15 Jan 07 (Mon)- 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

 

 

17 Jan 07 (Wed)- Lecture 9

19 Jan 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

22 Jan 07 (Mon)- Quiz 1

23 Jan 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 10 (venue: SK1)

24 Jan 07 (Wed)- Lecture 11

26 Jan 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

29 Jan 07 (Mon)- Lecture 12

 

 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

30 Jan 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 13 (venue: SK1)

31 Jan 07 (Wed)- Lecture 14

2 Feb 07 (Fri)- Lecture 15

5 Feb 07 (Mon)- Quiz 2/Tutorial

6 Feb 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 16 (venue: SK1)

7 Feb 07 (Wed)- Lecture 17

9 Feb 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

10 Feb 07 - 18 Feb 07: Midterm Break

19 Feb 07 (Mon)- Holidays,  No Lecture

21 Feb 07 (Wed)- Holidays,  No Lecture

23 Feb 07 (Fri)- Holidays,  No Lecture

26 Feb 07 (Mon)- Lecture 18

27 Feb 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 19 (venue: SK1)

  

CHAPTER 4:

The wavelike properties of particles

65 PPT

3.5 lectures

 

 

28 Feb 07 (Wed)- Lecture 20

2 Mar 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

5 Mar 07 (Mon)- Lecture 21

6 Mar 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 22 (venue: SK1)

7 Mar 07 (Wed)- Lecture 23

9 Mar 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

12 Mar 07 (Mon)- Lecture 24

Quantum theory

 
CHAPTER 5:

Atomic Models

84 PPT

4.5 lectures

 

 

 

 

13 Mar 07 (Tue, extra night class)- Lecture 25 (venue: SK1)

14 Mar 07 (Wed)-Lecture 26

16 Mar 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

19 Mar 07 (Mon)- Lecture 27

21 Mar 07 (Wed)- Lecture 28

23 Mar 07 (Fri)- Tutorial

 Quantum Atom

Chapter 6:

A very brief introduction to Quantum Mechanics

65 PPT

3.5 lectures

 

26 Mar 07 (Mon)- Lecture 29

28 Mar 07 (Wed)- Lecture 30

30 Mar 07 (Fri)- Lecture 31

 Introduction to quantum mechanics
   

Meeting times (for the whole semester):

Lectures + night classes =  24 + 7 times = 31 times

Tutorial = 10 times, on every Fridays, except the first and last Friday of the semester

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582 pages of PPT lecture notes to be covered in 30 lectures, roughly 20 pages PowerPoint notes to be covered per lecture.