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Class & |
Topic |
Reading |
Comments & Links |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Class 1, January 6 | Introduction and Review | Chapters 1 and 2 | skim reading as necessary |
| Quantization of Radiation | ||||
| W | Class 2, January 11 | Charge
and mass of electron, Blackbody Radiation |
3:1-2 | |
| F | Class 3, January 13 | Photoelectric
effect, Compton Scattering |
3:3-4 + More | |
|
Particle Nature of Matter |
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| W | Class 4, January 18 | Early Atomic Theory,
Rutherford Experiment, Bohr atom |
4:1-6 | HW set #1 due |
|
Matter Waves |
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| F | Class 5, January 20 | De
Broglie’s Hypothesis, Wave groups, dispersion |
5:1-4 | Java Applets |
| W | Class 6, January 25 | Uncertainty
Principle, Applications of Uncertainty Principle |
5:5-7 + More | Lecture Notes |
|
Schrödinger Equation |
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| F | Class 7, January 27 | Quantum wave equation | 6:1 | HW set #2 due |
| W | Class 8, February 1 | Infinite square well, Finite square well |
6:2-4 + More | Java Applets |
| F | Class 9, February 3 | Quantum harmonic Oscillator | 6:5 + More | Java Applets |
| W | Class 10, February 8 | Barrier reflection and tunneling | 6:6 + More |
Lecture Notes Java Applets |
| Atomic Physics | ||||
| F | Class 11, February 10 |
3-dim square well,
degeneracy, Hydrogen Atom |
7:1-3 | HW set #3 due |
| W |  Exam
1: February
15 |
on quantum mechanics |
Exam 1 practice questions & Solutions Exam 1 Solutions |
|
| F | Class 12, February 17 | Electron Spin, Angular Momentum | 7:4-5 | Lecture Notes |
| W | Class 13, February 22 |
Pauli Principle, Atomic Spectra, Complex Atoms |
7:6-8 9:4 + More |
|
| F | Class 14, February 24 | Lasers | 9:5-6 | |
| February 25 - March 3 | Spring Break | No Class | ||
| Solid State Physics | ||||
| W | Class 15, March 8 | Statistical Physics | 8:1-5 + More1 More2 |
HW set #4
due Lecture Notes |
| F | Class 16, March 10 | Electrons in metals | 10:2-4 | |
| W | Class 17, March 15 | Band
theory of solids, Semiconductors |
10:5-8 | |
| Nuclear Physics | ||||
| F | Class 18, March 17 |
Atomic Nucleus, Radioactive decay |
11:1-4 + More | |
| W | Exam
2: March
22 |
on Atomic and Solid State Physics | Exam 2 Solutions | |
| F | Class 19, March 24 | Nuclear force, reactions and applications | 11:5-6 12:1-3 |
Lecture Notes |
| Particle Physics | ||||
| W | Class 20, March 29 | Elementary Particles and their Interactions | 13:1-2 | HW set #6 due |
| F | Class 21, March 31 | Symmetries | 13:3 + More | |
| W | Class 22, April 5 | Conservation Laws, and the Quark Model | 13:3-5 | Lecture Notes |
| Cosmology | ||||
| F | Class 23, April 7 | White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes | 14:3-5 | |
| W | Class 24, April 12 | The Origin and Fate of the Universe | 14:6-8 | |
| F | "Final"
Exam: April 14 |
Ch. 7-14 (emphasis on Ch 11-14) | Exam Solutions | |
| F | April 21 | pick up exams and HW sets | 10-noon | 330 WHall |