ISP209 Spring 2007 Course Schedule
| Date: | Topics: | Reading Assignment | Lecture Notes | HW Assignment Due |
| 1-9 (Tuesday) | Course Introduction | Syllabus | notes | |
| 1-11 (Thursday) | What is time? | 1 | notes | |
| 1-16 (Tuesday) | Space, units, scalars, vectors, tensors | 2 | notes | HW#1 |
| 1-18 (Thursday) | What is force? | 3 | notes | |
| 1-23 (Tuesday) | Gravity, Motion and Orbits | 4 | notes | HW#2 |
| 1-25 (Thursday) | Special Relativity, Einstein, and E=mc2 | 5 | notes | |
| 1-30 (Tuesday) | Exam #1 Review | Review 1 | Review 1 | HW#3 |
| 2-1 (Thursday) | Exam #1 | |||
| 2-6 (Tuesday) | Journeys in Space and Time - Carl Sagan | 8 | notes | |
| 2-8 (Thursday) | General Relativity | 9 | notes | |
| 2-13 (Tuesday) | Conservation of Energy | 10 | notes | HW#4 |
| 2-15 (Thursday) | Second Law of Thermodynamics | 11 | notes | |
| 2-20 (Tuesday) | Circuits, semiconductors, superconductors | 12 | notes | HW#5 |
| 2-22 (Thursday) | Quantum Mechanics | 13 | notes | |
| 2-27 (Tuesday) | Quantum Electrodynamics | 14 | notes | HW#6 |
| 3-1 (Thursday) | Strong and Weak Forces | 15 | notes | |
| 3-6 (Tuesday) | Spring Break | |||
| 3-8 (Thursday) | Spring Break | |||
| 3-13 (Tuesday) | Exam #2 Review | Review 2 | Review 2 | HW#7 |
| 3-15 (Thursday) | EXAM #2 | |||
| 3-20 (Tuesday) | The birth and death of stars | 18 | notes | |
| 3-22 (Thursday) | The Big Bang | 19 | notes | |
| 3-27 (Tuesday) | Black holes, wormholes, and the future | 20 | notes | HW#8 |
| 3-29 (Thursday) | Life in the Universe: Aliens? | 21 | notes | |
| 4-3 (Tuesday) | Atoms and Nuclei | 22 | notes | HW#9 |
| 4-5 (Thursday) | What is matter? What is mass? | 23 | notes | |
| 4-10 (Tuesday) | Dark Matter and Dark Energy | 24 | notes | HW#10 |
| 4-12 (Thursday) | Strings, dimensions, and other stuff | 25 | notes | |
| 4-17 (Tuesday) | Exam #3 Review | Review 3 | Review 3 | HW#11 |
| 4-19 (Thursday) | Exam #3 | |||
| 4-24 (Tuesday) | Astrology, Mystics, and Magic | 28 | notes | |
| 4-26 (Thursday) | The Elegant Universe | 29 | notes | |
| 4-30 (Monday) | FINAL EXAM 3 pm to 5 pm | all course material | Location: BPS1410 |