| Week | Handout Date | Due Date | Topics | Chapters in Book | Homework |
| Assignment | |||||
| 1 | Mon 8/26 | Set 1, Due Tue 9/3 | Introduction, Heat | Halliday 19 | 36, 39, 46, 49, 53, 62, 63 |
| 2 | Tue 9/3 | Set 2, Due Tue 9/10 | Kinetic Theory | Halliday 20 | 2, 6, 14, 24, 46, 48, 54, 55 |
| 3 | Mon 9/9 | Set 3, Due Tue 9/17 | Thermodynamics | Halliday 21 | 3, 4, 5, 7, 22, 23, 27, 42 |
| 4 | Mon 9/16 | Set 4, Due Tue 9/24 | Birth of Modern Physics | Thornton & Rex 1 | See handout |
| 5 | Mon 9/23 | Set 5, Due Tue 10/1 | Special Relativity | Thornton & Rex 2 | 23, 24, 25, 28, 31, 51, 54, 66, 90 |
| 6 | Mon 9/30 | Set 6, Due Tue 10/8 | Photons | Thornton & Rex 3 | 13, 14, 21, 27, 29, 33, 37, 39, 40 |
| 7 | Mon 10/7 | Set 7, Due Tue 10/15 | Atomic Structure | Thornton & Rex 4 | 5, 8, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28 |
| 8 | Mon 10/14 | Set 8, Due Tue 10/22 | Waves | Thornton & Rex 5 | 5, 13, 16, 22, 40, 42 |
| 9 | Mon 10/21 | Set 9, Due Tue 10/29 | Quantum Theory | Thornton & Rex 6 | 5, 11, 15, 19, 33, 35, 37, 41 |
| 10 | Mon 10/28 | Set 10, Due Tue 11/5 | The Hydrogen Atom | Thornton & Rex 7 | 3, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22 |
| 11 | Mon 11/4 | Set 11, Due Tue 11/12 | Many-Electron Atoms | Thornton & Rex 8 | 8, 19, 22, 24, 30, 35 |
| 12 | Mon 11/11 | Set 12, Due Tue 11/19 | Nuclear Properties | Thornton & Rex 12 | 4, 6, 11, 15, 22, 33, 46, 47 |
| 13 | Mon 11/18 | Set 13, Due Tue 11/26 | Nuclear Interactions | Thornton & Rex 13 | 1, 8, 14, 26, 30, 31, 34, 39 |
| 14 | Mon 11/25 | Set 14, Due Tue 12/3 | Elementary Particles | Thornton & Rex 14 | 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 21, 23 |
| 15 | Mon 12/2 | Cosmology | Thornton & Rex 16 |