This is my best-guess schedule as of March 18, 2002.
It is subject to change, and all students are responsible
for changes announced in class.
| class | date | subject |
| 1 | March 26 | Review of Classical Mechanics
Meet in 302 Zimmer |
| 2 | March 28 | No Class |
| 3 | April 2 | Review of Classical Electro-Dynamics |
| 4 | April 4 | Lagrangian Electro-Dynamics;
The Real Scalar Field |
| 5 | April 9 |
The Complex Scalar Field;
Global Gauge Invariance (Rohana Wijewardhana, Guest Lecturer) |
| 6 | April 11 |
Gauge Invariance in Quantum Mechanics;
The Covariant Derivative (Rohana Wijewardhana, Guest Lecturer) |
| 7 | April 16 |
Non-Abelian Gauge Theories;
Strong Isospin |
| 8 | April 18 | The Dirac Equation |
| 9 | April 23 | The Lagrangian of the Standard Model |
| 10 | April 25 | The Electroweak Theory |
| 11 | April 30 | The QCD Lagrangian |
| 12 | May 2 | The Higgs Mechanism, part I |
| 13 | May 7 | The Higgs Mechanism, part II |
| 14 | May 9 | Cross-Sections and Decay Rates, part I |
| 15 | May 14 | Cross-Sections and Decay Rates, part II |
| 16 | May 16 | Some Tests of the Standard Model |
| 17 | May 21 | Running Coupling Strengths |
| 18 | May 23 | Production and Decay of a Higgs Boson |
| 19 | May 28 | Grand Unification |
| 20 | May 30 |
Supersymmetry
(Philip Argyres, Guest Lecturer) |
last significnatly modified March 19, 2002