| WEEK | Subjects | Reading |
Homework due |
| 1 Jan 14-16 | Blackbody radiation,
photoelectric effect, Compton effect, electron diffraction |
text Chap. 1 |
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| 2 Jan 19-23 |
Bohr atom, wave-particle
duality, wave packets, Heisenberg uncertainty relations |
text 2.1-4 | #1 Jan 23 |
| 3 Jan 26-30 |
Probability interpretation, expectation values, the infinite square-well potential |
text 2.4-7, 3.1-3 | #2 Jan 30 |
| 4 Feb 2-6 |
Stationary states,
eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, parity, free-particle states, delta-function potential |
text 3.2-6 | #3 Feb 6 |
| 5 Feb 9-13 |
Delta-function, finite-step, and finite square-well potentials |
text 4.6, 4.1-3 | #4 Feb 13 |
| 6 Feb 16-20 |
Finite square
well and finite barrier potentials, alpha-decay No Class, Tues Feb 17 (Monday schedule) |
text 4.3-5 | #5 Feb 20 |
| 7 Feb 23-27 |
The simple harmonic oscillator |
text 4.7 | #6 Feb 27 |
| 8 Mar 2-6 |
Hilbert space and linear
operators, eigenstates and eigenvalues, Hermitian operators and
observables |
text 5.1-5 | #7 Mar 6 |
| SPRING BREAK |
9 Mar 16-20 |
Operator methods in quantum mechanics MIDTERM March 17 Away March 16-18. No section March 18 |
text 6.1-2 |
| 10 Mar 23-27 |
Schroedinger equation in three dimensions |
text 6.3-4, 8.1,4-5, 7.3 | #8 Mar 27 |
| 11 Mar 30-Apr 3 |
Three-dimensional potential well, the hydrogen atom Away March 30-Apr 1. Prof. Chamon lectures Mar 31; no section Apr 1 |
text 8.5 |
#9 Apr 3 |
| 12 Apr 6-10 |
The hydrogen atom, orbital angular momentum Away Apr 8-10. Prof. Chamon holds section on Apr 8 & lectures on Apr 9 |
text 7.1-4 |
#10 Apr 14 |
| 13 Apr 13-17 |
Spin angular momentum |
text 10.1-3 | #11 Apr 22 |
| 14 Apr 20-24 |
Spin angular momentum Special class on Thurs Apr 23 (Monday schedule) 9:30-11am |
text 10.4-5, 9.1-3 | #12 Apr 30 |
| 15 Apr 27-30 |
Spin angular momentum (cont.) Away Apr 27-29; no class on Apr 28 (make-up class on Apr 23). |