Home Page of the Lectures "316: Modern Physics", Spring 2005

Dates

Literature

Handouts

Exercises

Quizzes and Final Exam

Grading

Academic Integrity

  

Dates
Mo	01/ 24/ 05	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	First lecture
We	01/ 26/ 05		First section
Fr	02/ 25/ 05	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Qui
	03/ 21 - 03/ 27		Spring break
Fr	04/ 01/ 05	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Quiz
Fr	05/ 06/ 05	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Last lecture
Th	05/12/05 12:00-14:30	Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall	Final Exam
Mo	09:05 - 09:55	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Lecture
Mo	14:30 - 15:20	Room 611, Space Science	Office hours, TA1
Tu	14:30 - 15:20	Room 611, Space Science	Office hours, TA1
We	09:05 - 09:55	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Lecture
We	13:25 - 14:15	Room 127, Rockefeller Hall	Section TA2
We	15:00 - 16:00	Room 516, Clark Hall	Office hours, TA2
Th	15:35 - 16:25	Room 102, Rockefeller Hall	Section TA1
Th	16:30 - 17:30	Room 516, Clark Hall	Office hours, TA2
Fr	09:05	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Exercises due
Fr	09:05 - 09:55	Room 132, Rockefeller Hall	Lecture
Fr	10:00 - 11:50	Room 118, Newman Lab	Office hours, Prof. Hoffstaetter

Literature

• An Introduction to Quantum Physics, French and Taylor, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1990, ISBN: 0393091066

• Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple (Web based Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe)

• Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser, McGraw-Hill, sixth edition, 2003, ISBN 0-07-244848-2

• The Quantum Challenge - Modern Research on the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics, George Greenstein and Arthur G. Zajonc, Jones and Bartlett publishers, 1997, ISBN 0-7637-0216-1

• Modern Physics, Raymond A. Serway, Clement J. Moses, and Curt A. Moyer, Books/ColeTomson Learning, second edition, 1997, ISBN 0-03-001547-2

• Quantum Physics, Stephen Gasiorowicz, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., second edition, 1996, ISBN 0-471-85737-8

Handouts

The answer to the pre-class question should be mailed to hoff@lepp.cornell.edu before class. Please use the name listed under QUESTION in the subject line.

DATA	TITLE
01/24/2005	Modern Physics
01/26/2005	Derivation of black-body radiation
01/28/2005	Average energy in each mode for light quanta
01/31/2005	Further evidence for photons
02/02/2005	The Rutherford-Bohr Atom
02/04/2005	Stimulated emission for black body radiation
02/07/2005	Wave properties of particles
02/09/2005	George Thomson's experiment
02/11/2005	Wave properties of neutrons, atoms and ions
02/14/2005	The wave-particle duality and bound states
Letter to the Nobel Web	Detective story about E. and R. Schroedinger's Bibliography
02/16/2005	The stationary Schroedinger Equation
02/18/2005	Particles in nonrigid boxes
02/21/2005	Qualitative plots of bound-state wave functions
02/23/2005	Stationary states in the square well
02/28/2005	Time dependence of quantum states
03/02/2005	Orthogonality for different Energies
03/04/2005	Two quantum particles
03/07/2005	Orthogonality for different Energies
03/09/2005	Two subsequent polarizers for light waves
03/11/2005	Conversion of polarization states
03/14/2005	Quantum amplitudes and state vectors
03/16/2005	Projection amplitudes for linear and circular polarization
03/18/2005	Quantum amplitudes for circular polarization
03/28/2005	Physical correspondence to polarization states
03/30/2005	Projection probabilities and ket vectors
04/04/2005	Dispersion of free-particle packet states
04/06/2005	The energy time uncertainty relation
04/08/2005	Potential steps
04/11/2005	Approximation of tunneling
04/13/2005	Expectation values for px
04/15/2005	Spherically symmetric potentials and wave functions
04/18/2005	Normalization and probability density for spherical symmetry
04/20/2005	Expectation values for px
04/22/2005	Angular momentum and magnetism
04/25/2005	Angular momentum and atomic systems
04/27/2005	Spin: intrinsic angular momentum
04/29/2005	The radial part of the wave function
05/02/2005	State vector with spin
05/04/2005	Wave functions with properties that resemble Bohr orbits
05/06/2005	The periodic table

Exercises

0th	math questionnaire on 01/24/05		question and answer review of complex numbers
1st	handed out on 01/28/05, due on 02/04/05	Homework 1	question and answer
2nd	handed out on 02/04/05, due on 02/11/05	Homework 2	question and answer
3rd	handed out on 02/11/05, due on 02/18/05	Homework 3	question and answer
4th	handed out on 02/18/05, due on 02/25/05	Homework 4	question and answer
5th	handed out on 02/25/05, due on 03/04/05	Homework 5	question and answer
6th	handed out on 03/04/05, due on 03/11/05	Homework 6	question and answer
7th	handed out on 03/11/05, due on 03/18/05	Homework 7	question and answer
8th	handed out on 03/18/05, due on 04/01/05	Homework 8	question and answer
9th	handed out on 04/01/05, due on 04/08/05	Homework 9	question and answer
10th	handed out on 04/08/05, due on 04/15/05	Homework 10	question and answer practice quiz
11th	handed out on 04/15/05, due on 04/22/05	Homework 11	question and answer
12th	handed out on 04/22/05, due on 04/29/05	Homework 12	question and answer
13th	handed out on 04/29/05, due on 05/06/05	Homework 13	question and answer

Quizes and Final Exam

1st quiz,	February	Questions and answers
2nd quiz,	April	Questions and answers
final exam,	May

Preparation

Grading

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Last Update: 04-26-2005