Instructor: James Gole
EMail: james.gole [at] physics.gatech.edu
Office: N106/School of Physics
Office Hours: N106, by appointment - see me before or after class or call (404)894-4029 or (404)894-4011
Phone: (404) 894-4029
Time & Place: Room S107,  Tu, Th 12:05 P.M - 1:25 P.M.

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1. Fall 2007
2. Fall 2007
3. Fall 2007

1. Brief history and Planck's hypothesis.
2. The spectrum of the hydrogen atom, the Bohr model, and x-rays.
3. The photoelectric effect and the Franck-Hertz experiment.

1. A theory of polarized photons (handout)
2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1/2 particles.

1. The wave-particle duality of light and the Compton effect.
2. The de Broglie hypothesis of matter waves.
3. The experiment of Davisson and Germer and the diffraction of matter.
4. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
5. Schrödinger's matter waves and Born's probability interpretation: amplitude or wave mechanics.
6. Particle in an infinite square-well potential (Part I).
7. Interpretation of the wave (handout-Wave Mechanics).

1. The Schrödinger equation: time-dependent and time-independent.
2. Free particles.
3. Particle in an infinite square-well potential. (Part II)
4. Scattering from a step potential. (handout)
5. Scattering from a square-well potential and a square-barrier potential. (handout)
6. Tunneling through a square-barrier potential. (handout)
7. Particle in a square-well potential (handout)
8. Particle in an harmonic oscillator potential. (handout)
9. The momentum representation of the harmonic oscillator.

1. Position and momentum as dynamical variables
2. Dynamical variables, operators, eigenvalue equations, the Schrödinger equation, boundary values
3. The position and momentum representations.
4. The superposition principle.
5. Fourier analysis.
6. The Fourier integral transform.
7. Special functions.

Dirac's Solution of the One-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator

Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics

Central Force Problem in Quantum Mechanics

The Hydrogen Atom

Spin