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Read Taylor & Wheeler 1.1, 1.2
Due Sep. 9: Problem set 1Read Taylor & Wheeler 1.3, 1.4
Due Sep. 16: Problem set 2Read Taylor & Wheeler 1.7, 1.8
Due Sep. 25: Problem set 3Review Taylor & Wheeler 1.8
Read Taylor & Wheeler 1.9
Due Sep. 30: Problem set 4Read Taylor & Wheeler 2.13
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Read handouts on line spectra, and blackbody radiation
Read handout on photoelectric effect, and play with the online simulation.
Read handout on the Compton effect.
Read handouts on the Bohr model, and some of its successes and failures.
Continue to read the Bohr model, and some of its successes and failures.
Here are my lecture notes on the Bohr model, and the reduced mass correction.
Read sections 5.2 and 5.3 on deBroglie wavelength and electron scattering.
Lecture notes on the Balmer lines via the Bohr model, deBroglie wavelength, Bohr quantization, electron scattering, Bragg diffraction, Davisson-Germer exercise.
Check out this nice, interactive description of Fourier Transforms.
Read section 5.4 on Wave Motion.
Read sections 5.6 and 5.7 the Uncertainty Principle and the Copenhagen Interpretation..
Practice Exam and solutions.
Practice Exam and solutions.
Read handout on the Schoedinger Equation.
Lecture notes on differential equations, the Schroedinger Equation, the probability interpretation, and why we need complex numbers.
Read handout on the infinite potential well.
Lecture notes on the Time Independent Schroedinger eq., the free particle, the requirements on psi, the particle in a box problem, and an example of calculating the probaility.
Read handout on the finite potential well, expectation values, and operators.
Lecture notes on the bound states in a finite well, expectation values 1, and expectation values 2.
Read handout on simple harmonic oscillators and tunneling.
Practice Exam and solutions.
Here are some review notes to help you study.