During this semester we will examine the evolution of our understanding of the micro-world, a process that has profoundly affected our view of humanity's role in the universe. Given below is an approximate lecture schedule with suggested readings for further information. These readings are not required, but should rather be used to help clarify points made in class. More details are available in the Further Reading section of this syllabus.

Lectures	Ideas	Further Reading
1	Introduction
9/1	• Goals of the Course • Course Structure • Roadmap of Topics • Use of Mathematics
2-5	Electricity & Magnetism
9/3-9/15	• Franklin & charge • Coulomb & Volta • Faraday's rubber bands • What is magnetism? • Discovering the electron	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.6 2. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.7,8 3. Shamos (Coulomb, Oersted, Thomson, Millikan) To brush up on energy, see: 4. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.4 5. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.3
6-8	Unification & Light
9/17-9/24	• Young vs. Newton • Faraday & time • Maxwell puts it together • Light & EM radiation	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.6.3,6.4 2. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.8.5 3. Halliday, Resnick & Walker, Ch.31,32,34 4. Shamos (Young, Fresnel, Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz)
10/6	Midterm 1
9-12	Prelude to Quantum Mechanics
9/29-10/13	• Planck: Black Bodies • Einstein: Photo-Electrons • Bohr: Spectral Lines	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.7.A-D 2. Crease & Mann, Ch.1,2 3. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.10 4. Shamos (Planck, Einstein, Bohr)
13-18	Development of Quantum Theory
10/15-11/3	• Probability Waves • Heisenberg's uncertainty • Pauli & Exclusion • It's real! - Bell • Dirac & Infinities	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.7.D-G 2. Crease & Mann, Ch.3-7 3. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.10 4. Pagels (Bell) 5. Hobson, Ch.6,7
11/10	Midterm 2
19-20	Getting to the Nucleus
11/5-11/12	• Radioactivity • Proof of the pudding • Yukawa & a new force	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.8.B 2. Crease & Mann, Ch.1,9 3. Ostdiek & Bord, Ch.11 4. Shamos (Roentgen, Becquerel, Rutherford)
21-23	Forces weak & strong
11/17-11/24	• The puzzle of beta decay • Another force • The particle explosion • Quarks and gluons • Asymptotic freedom	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.12 2. Crease & Mann, Ch.8,10,11,14,15 3. Neutrino discovery
24-25	The Standard Model
12/1-12/3	• Colliders and Exp's • Renormalization • Electroweak Unification • The Standard Model • LHC & the Higgs	1. Spielberg & Anderson, Ch.12 2. Crease & Mann, Ch.12,13,16-18 3. The Particle Adventure 4. The ATLAS experiment
26-27	Where Now?
12/8-12/10	• What's in the universe? • Where's the antimatter? • What about gravity? • Theories of Everything? • Clues from SUSY	1. Crease & Mann, Ch.19,20 2. Greene 3. EPP2010 Report
12/15	Final Exam