Course Syllabus
| week of 1/11/06
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review: black body radiation, Planck's formula, de Broglie waves
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chapter 1
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| 1/16
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Frank-Hertz experiment, Davisson-Germer experiment
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chapter 1
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| 1/23
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the wave function and the Schroedinger equation
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chapter 2
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| 1/30
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description of states, interference, superposition, wave equation
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| 2/6
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Fourier Transform, wave packets, group velocity, momentum msmts
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| 2/13
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first hourly 2/13 on chapter 2
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| 2/20
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physical quantities and measurement: the measurement procedure
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chapter 3
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| 2/27
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physical quantities and observables, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of an
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| 3/6
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observable. Coherence, propability current
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| 3/13
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second hourly 3/13 chapter 3
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| 3/20
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spring break
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| 3/27
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quantization of energy in symple systems: bound and scattering states
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chapter 4
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| 4/3
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harmonic oscillator, molecular physics, square well potentials, NH3
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| 4/10
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third hourly 4/10 chapter 4
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| 4/17
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Principles of quantum mechanics: measurement, superpositin
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chapter 5
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| 4/24
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Hilbert space, Diract formalism, spectral theorem, time evolution
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| 5/1
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special topics: e.g., the ammonia maser, polarization of light
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chapter 6
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| 5/8
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final exam
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