| Week | Lecture topics | Text | Tutorial | Lab |
| (1) 3/29 |
Mechanical waves, Wave equation, superposition & interference, standing waves |
Ch. 19 | Superposition & reflection of pulses | No lab first week |
| (2) 4/5 |
Sound waves, intensity, beats, Doppler effect | Ch. 20 | Reflection & transmission | Simple pendulum & sound |
| (3) 4/12 |
Displacement Current, Maxwell's eqs, EM Waves |
Ch. 40, 41 | EM waves | Standing waves |
| First Exam, Friday, April 16 | ||||
| (4) 4/19 |
Energy transport by EM Radiation, radiation pressure, relativistic Doppler effect |
Ch. 41, 42 | Propagation & refraction | Sound in a tube |
| (5) 4/26 |
Reflection & refraction, geometric Optics | Ch. 43, 44 | Interpretation of ray diagrams | Reflection & refraction |
| (6) 5/3 |
Thin lenses, double-slit interference | Ch. 44. 45 | Two-source interference | Curved mirrors |
| Second Exam, Friday, May 7 | ||||
| (7) 5/10 |
Single-slit and thin film interference, diffraction, resolution |
Ch. 45, 46 | Multiple slit interference | Thin lenses |
| (8) 5/17 |
Multiple slit interference, gratings, spectra, polarization | Ch. 47, 48 | Single slit diffraction | Diffraction & interference |
| (9) 5/24 |
More on polarization, scattering, photoelectric effect | Ch. 48, 49 |
Wave properties of matter of matter |
Gratings and spectroscopy |
| Third Exam, Friday, May 28 | ||||
| (10) 5/31 |
Photons, matter waves, Heisenberg uncertainty principle | Ch. 49, 50 | Photoelectric effect | Make-up labs |
| ( Holiday 5/31 ) | ||||
| Final Exam, Wednesday, June 9, 8:30am | ||||