ISP209 Spring 2008 Course Schedule
| Date: | Topics: | Reading Assignment | Lecture Notes | HW Assignment Due |
| 1-8 (Tuesday) | Course Introduction | Syllabus | notes | |
| 1-10 (Thursday) | What is time? | 1 | notes | |
| 1-15 (Tuesday) | Space, units, scalars, vectors, tensors | 2 | notes | HW#1 |
| 1-17 (Thursday) | What is force? | 3 | notes | |
| 1-22 (Tuesday) | Gravity, Motion and Orbits | 4 | notes | HW#2 |
| 1-24 (Thursday) | Special Relativity | 5 | notes | |
| 1-29 (Tuesday) | Einstein, E=mc2, and General Relativity | 6 | notes | HW#3 |
| 1-31 (Thursday) | General Relativity - II | 7 | notes | |
| 2-5 (Tuesday) | Exam #1 Review | Review 1 | Review 1 | HW#4 |
| 2-7 (Thursday) | Exam #1 | |||
| 2-12 (Tuesday) | Conservation of Energy | 10 | notes | |
| 2-14 (Thursday) | Second Law of Thermodynamics | 11 | notes | |
| 2-19 (Tuesday) | Circuits, semiconductors, superconductors | 12 | notes | HW#5 |
| 2-21 (Thursday) | Quantum Mechanics | 13 | notes | |
| 2-26 (Tuesday) | Quantum Electrodynamics | 14 | notes | HW#6 |
| 2-28 (Thursday) | Strong and Weak Forces | 15 | notes | |
| 3-4 (Tuesday) | Spring Break | |||
| 3-6 (Thursday) | Spring Break | |||
| 3-11 (Tuesday) | Exam #2 Review | Review 2 | Review 2 | HW#7 |
| 3-13 (Thursday) | EXAM #2 | |||
| 3-18 (Tuesday) | The birth and death of stars | 18 | notes | |
| 3-20 (Thursday) | The Big Bang | 19 | notes | |
| 3-25 (Tuesday) | Black holes, wormholes, and the future | 20 | notes | HW#8 |
| 3-27 (Thursday) | Life in the Universe: Aliens? | 21 | notes | |
| 4-1 (Tuesday) | Atoms and Nuclei | 22 | notes | HW#9 |
| 4-3 (Thursday) | What is matter? What is mass? | 23 | notes | |
| 4-8 (Tuesday) | Dark Matter and Dark Energy | 24 | notes | HW#10 |
| 4-10 (Thursday) | Strings, dimensions, and other stuff | 25 | notes | |
| 4-15 (Tuesday) | Astrology, Mystics, and Magic | 26 | notes | HW#11 |
| 4-17 (Thursday) | The Elegant Universe | 27 | notes | |
| 4-22 (Tuesday) | Exam #3 Review | Review 3 | Review 3 | |
| 4-24 (Thursday) | Exam #3 | |||
| 4-28 (Monday) | FINAL EXAM 3 pm to 5 pm | all course material | Location: BPS1410 |