Modern 2:Syllabus

|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