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