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