Home Page of the Lectures "316: Modern Physics", Spring 2004


Professor:
 Georg Hoffstaetter


255-5197, Newman Lab 118, Georg.Hoffstaetter@cornell.edu
Teaching Assistants: Tanja Hinderer (Section 1)
255-8007, Clark 235, tph25@cornell.edu
Pierre Thibault (Section 2)
255-6072, Clark 516, pt68@cornell.edu


Literature Dates
Literature
 Order of handouts
Exercises
Quizes and Final Exam
Preparation
Grading

       

Dates
Mo 01/ 26/ 04 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall First lecture
We
 01/ 28/ 04
First section
We
 02/ 25/ 04
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Quiz
Fr
 03/ 19/ 04
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Quiz

03/ 20 - 03/ 28
Spring break
Mo
 04/ 19/ 04
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Quiz
Fr
 05/ 07/ 04
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Last lecture
Th
 05/ 13/ 04
09:00-11:30
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
Final Exam
Mo 09:05 - 09:55 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Lecture
Fr
 09:05
 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
 Exercises due
We 09:05 - 09:55 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Lecture
We 13:25 - 14:15 Room 127, Rockefeller Hall Section 1
We
 15:00 - 16:00
 Room 516, Clark Hall
 Office hours, Thibault
We
 15:30 - 16:30
 Room 235, Clark Hall
 Office hours, Hinderer
Th
 13:30 - 14:30
 Room 235, Clark Hall
 Office hours, Hinderer
Th
 15:35 - 16:25
 Room 102, Rockefeller Hall
 Section 2
Th
 16:30 - 17:30
 Room 516, Clark Hall
 Office hours, Thibault
Fr 09:05 - 09:55 Room 132, Rockefeller Hall Lecture
Fr
10:00 - 12:00 Room 118, Newman Lab Office hours, Hoffstaetter


Literature

Required:

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

Optional:

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

Related material:

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


Order of handouts

01/26/2004
 Modern Physics
02/02/2004
 Photons and quantum states
02/09/2004
 Interference of light
02/11/2004
 Projection amplitudes for linear and circular polarization
02/16/2004
 Simple models of the atom
02/23/2004
 Correspondence principle
03/01/2004
 The stationary Schroedinger equation
03/08/2004
 Solutions of Schroedinger's equation in one dimension
03/17/2004
 Orthogonality for different Energies
04/02/2004
 Two quantum particles
04/09/2004
 Coulomb potential
04/16/2004
 The Uncertainty Principle
04/21/2004
 Scattering

Eigenfunctions for Lz and L2

Vibration energies of molecules

Hydrogen-like systems


Exercises

exercises for 1st week 0th math questionare on
 01/28/04
question and answer
exercises for 1st week 1st week, handed out on 01/30/04, due on 02/06/04 Homework 1
 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 2nd week, handed out on 02/06/04, due on 02/13/04 Homework 2 question and answer and a briefer about complex numbers
exercises for 1st week 3rd week, handed out on 02/13/04, due on 02/20/04 Homework 3 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 4th week, handed out on 02/20/04, due on 02/27/04 Homework 4 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 5th week, handed out on 02/27/04, due on 03/05/04 Homework 5 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 6th week, handed out on 03/05/04, due on 03/12/04 Homework 6 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 7th week, handed out on 03/12/04, due on 03/19/04 Homework 7 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 8th week, handed out on 03/19/04, due on 04/02/04 Homework 8 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 9th week, handed out on 04/02/04, due on 04/09/04 Homework 9 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 10th week, handed out on 04/09/04, due on 04/16/04 Homework 10 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 11th week, handed out on 04/19/04, due on 04/23/04 Homework 11 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 12th week, handed out on 04/26/04, due on 04/30/04 Homework 12 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 13th week, handed out on 04/30/04, due on 05/07/04 Homework 13 question and answer


Quizes and Final Exam

exercises for 1st week 1st quiz, 02/ 25/ 04:
 Questions and answers
exercises for 1st week 2nd quiz, 03/ 19/ 04:
 Questions and answers
exercises for 1st week 3rd quiz, 04/ 19/ 04:
 Questions and answers
exercises for 1st week final exam, 05/ 13/ 04:


Auxiliary material for quizes and for the final exam
1. Calculators, programable calculators, but no laptops
2. One handwritten page of formulas
3.
 Handouts from class
4. All questions and solutions of the exercises
5. An Introduction to Quantum Physics, French and Taylor
6.
 Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser

Preparation

Prerequisit physics courses at Cornell: Physics 214 or Physics 218

List of math courses at Cornell.
Mathematica topics that will be useful for Physics 316: Complex functions, Differential and integral calculus, Taylor Series, Vectors and calculus of functions of several variables, Ordinary differential equations, Partial differential equations, Fourier Series, Linear algebra.

Grading

The weekly homework assignment is due at Fridays 9:05am and accounts for 30% of the grade.  Each of the three Quizes is worth 10% and the final is worth 40% of the grade.
Academic Integrity is mandatory.


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Last Update: 01-28-2004