Week	  Lectures		Topics/Assignments

Jan    M  Introduction and scope of the course: 
          download Background Outline 
14-18  W  Black-body radiation, COBE, Specific heats
       F  Continuation of background material:
          Photoelectric and Compton effects, Bohr atom

Jan    M  No class, MLK day holiday
21-25  W  Uncertainty principle, Fourier transforms	
       F  Convolutions, Postulates of QM

Jan 28 M  The Schrödinger equation, potentials, real and complex. 
          Optional Diagnostic Test. Download Transition to Quantum.pdf
		   
Feb 4  M  First problem set due at beginning of class;