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The required texts for the class are (the are or will be on reserve in the Engineering Library):

Modern Physics, by Jeremy Bernstein, Paul M. Fishbane, and Stephen Gasiorowicz (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2000)

Laboratory Notebook (see discussion in the Lab Guide)

To keep up with the class material, you should complete the following reading:

For class on Monday, Aug. 28

Review of waves: Sec. 1.4

The basics of relativity: Ch. 2

For class on Monday, Sep. 4

Consequences of relativity: Ch. 3

For class on Monday, Sep. 11

Waves as particles and particles as waves: Ch. 4

For class on Monday, Sep. 18

Atoms and the Bohr model: Ch. 5

For class on Monday, Sep. 25

The Schroedinger equation: Ch. 6

For class on Wednesday, Oct. 4 (after the first exam)

Wave packets and the uncertainty principle: Ch. 7

For class on Monday, Oct. 23

Barriers and wells: Ch. 8

For class on Friday, Oct. 27

Angular momentum and the hydrogen atom: Ch. 9

For class on Wednesday, Nov. 22

Particle Physics: Ch. 16

For class on Wednesday, Nov. 29

Many particles: Ch. 10
Complex atoms and molecules: Ch. 11

For class on Friday, Nov. 24 

Statistical physics: Ch. 12