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LECTURE TOPICS |
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SUPPLEMENTAL WEEKLY READINGS |
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Wave-Particle Duality, Units and Scales |
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F&T, 1.1-1.6 |
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Thomson and Millikan, Thomson Atom, Atomic Spectra, Rutherford Scattering |
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F&T, 1.1-1.6 |
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More Rutherford, Light as Particle, Photoelectric Effect, Short X-rays |
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F&T, 2.1-2.11
Liboff, 2.1-2.3 |
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Compton Scattering, Blackbody, Particle as Wave, De Broglie, Davisson-Germer |
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F&T, 2.1-2.11
Liboff, 2.1-2.3 |
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Bohr model, Franck-Hertz, Correspondence Principle, Wilson-Sommerfeld |
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F&T, 1.7-1.12
Liboff, 2.4-2.6 |
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Critique of Bohr, Particle as Wave Packet, Wave Functions |
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F&T, 3.1-3.2
Liboff, 2.7-2.9 |
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Heisenberg Uncertainty, Probability, Expectation Values, Standard Deviation |
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F&T, 3.1-3.2
Liboff, 2.7-2.9 |
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Schrodinger Equation, Separable Solutions, Infinite Well |
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F&T, 3.3-3.10
Liboff, 3.1-3.4 and 4.1-4.4 |
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Measurement, Dirac Notation, Operators |
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F&T, 3.3-3.10
Liboff, 3.1-3.4 and 4.1-4.4 |
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More Operators, Orthonormality, Completeness, Time-Dependence |
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F&T, 8.1-8.10
Liboff, 5.1-5.2 |
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Free Particle, Eigenfunctions of p and x, Postulates of QM |
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F&T, 3.11 and 4.1-4.2
Liboff, 7.1 |
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Boundary Conditions, Qualitative Wave Functions, Finite Square Well |
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F&T, 3.11 and 4.1-4.2
Liboff, 7.1 |
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Delta Function Potential, Harmonic Oscillator: Series Method |
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F&T, 4.3
Liboff, 7.5-7.9
Gasiorowicz, pp. 103-108 |
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Scattering and Tunneling Problems |
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F&T, 4.3
Liboff, 7.5-7.9
Gasiorowicz, pp. 103-108 |
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Harmonic Oscillator: Operator Method |
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Liboff, 7.2-7.4 and 8.2 |
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Parity, Periodic Potentials, Quantum Dot Demo |
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Liboff, 7.2-7.4 and 8.2 |
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WKB, Alpha Decay |
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F&T, 5.1-5.7
Liboff, 7.10 and 10.1-10.2 |
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Schrodinger Equation in 3D: Cartesian, Spherical Coordinates |
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F&T, 5.1-5.7
Liboff, 7.10 and 10.1-10.2 |
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Solutions with Spherical Symmetry, Hydrogen Ground State |
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F&T, 10.1-10.7
Liboff, 9.1-9.2
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Angular Momentum, Compatible Observables, L2 and Lz Ops, Lz Eigenfunctions |
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F&T, 10.1-10.7
Liboff, 9.1-9.2 |
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L2 and Lz Simultaneous Eigenfunctions, Spherical Harmonics |
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F&T, 11.1-11.2
Liboff, 9.3 and 10.3 |
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Vector Model, Stern-Gerlach, Radial Equation |
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F&T, 11.1-11.2
Liboff, 9.3 and 10.3 |
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Radial Solutions, Hydrogen Wave Functions, H Spectrum |
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F&T, 12.1-12.7
Liboff, 10.5-10.6 |
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24 |
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Review, Future, EPR and Bell |
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F&T, 12.1-12.7
Liboff, 10.5-10.6 |
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