Last Modified: July 21, 2003

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COURSE CALENDAR

All notes are given in PDF format

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

May 12 Introduction. Origins of QM

May 14 Black Body Radiation + Pictures

May 16 Photo- and Compton effects + Pictures

May 19 Rutherford experiments + Pictures

May 21 Spectral Series + Bohr's Postulates/ Frank-Hertz Experiments + Pictures

May 23 de Broglie Matter waves/Davisson-Germer Experiment + Pictures

May 26 OFFICIAL SCHOOL HOLIDAY

May 28 Statistical Interpretation of Matter Waves + Review of Complex Numbers

May 30 QUIZ 1 + Answers+ Probability and Statistics Primer

June 2 Uncertainty Principle

June 4 Schrodinger Equation

June 6 Schrodinger Equation and Quantization

June 9 Infinite and Finite Square Wells

June 11 Harmonic Oscillator

June 13 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW

June 16 Potential Barriers

June 18 Multiple and Periodic Potentials

June 20 Operators I: Wave Functions as Vectors; Hermitian Operators

June 23 Operators II: Commutators; The Momentum and Hamiltonian Operators; Time Dependence.

June 25 Uncertainty Principle by the Operator Method

June 27 Harmonic Oscillator by the Operator Method

June 30 Heisenberg Representation. Position and Momentum Spaces.

July 2 Matrix Representation of Operators and Wave Functions

July 4 OFFICIAL SCHOOL HOLIDAY

July 7 Eigenvalue Problem in the Matrix Representation

July 9 Axiomatic Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

July 11 QUIZ 2

Extension to two particles and three dimensions

July 14 Angular Momentum

July 16 Eigenfunctions of the Angular Momentum Operator (Spherical Harmonics)

July 18 Schrodinger Equation in Spherical Coordinates

July 21 Hydrogen Atom

Hydrogen Wave Funtions: site 1

Hydrogen Wave Funtions: site 2

July 23 Spin

July 25 Addition of Angular Momenta

FINAL: TUESDAY 7/29. 2:50-5:40

REFERENCE:

Table of Physical constants from the Particle Data Group web site: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2000/consrppbook.pdf

Table of Basic Integrals: http://www.math.unb.ca/sections/integrals/

"The Integrator" web page from Wolfram Research: http://integrals.wolfram.com/ (an alternative to mathematical tables of integrals)

HyperPhysics Concepts (GA State University)

Math Reference from Wolfram Research [Hint: use "Search" function]

History of Quantum Mechanics I

History of Quantum Mechanics II

Timeline of Quantum Mechanics from Wikipedia

Century of Physics timeline from the American Physical Society