Professor: |
Georg Hoffstaetter |
255-5197, Georg.Hoffstaetter@cornell.edu | |
Teaching Assistant: | Pierre Thibault, B83 Rockefeller Hall, pt68@cornell.edu |
Dates |
Literature |
Order of handouts |
Exercises |
Quizes and Final Exam |
Grading |
Dates |
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Mo | 01/ 20/ 03 | Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | First lecture |
Th |
01/ 23/ 03 |
Room 115, Rockefeller Hall |
First section |
Fr | 02/ 07/ 03 | End of add period | |
Fr | 02/ 14/ 03 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Quiz |
Fr | 03/ 07/ 03 | End of drop period | |
Fr |
03/ 14/ 03 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Quiz |
03/ 17 - 03/ 21 |
Spring
break |
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Fr |
04/ 11/ 03 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Quiz |
Fr |
05/ 02/ 03 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Last
lecture |
Th | 05/ 08/ 03 09:00 - 11:30 |
Room 122, Rockefeller Hall |
Final Exam
(new time)
|
Mo | 09:05 - 09:55 | Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Lecture |
Mo |
10:10 - 11:00 |
Room B83, Rockefeller Hall |
Office hours, Thibault |
We | 09:05 - 09:55 | Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Lecture |
We | 01:25 - 02:15 | Room 128, Rockefeller Hall | Section |
We |
10:10 - 11:00 |
Room B83, Rockefeller Hall |
Office hours,
Thibault |
We | 16:00 - 17:00 | Room 118, Newman Lab | Office hours, Hoffstaetter Lab door locks at 16:30 ! |
Th | 15:35 | Exercises due | |
Th | 15:35 - 16:25 | Room 115, Rockefeller Hall | Section |
Fr | 09:05 - 09:55 | Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Lecture |
Fr
|
16:00 - 17:00 | Room 118, Newman Lab | Office hours, Hoffstaetter Lab door locks at 16:30 ! |
01/20/2003 |
Modern Physics |
01/02/2003 |
Photons and quantum states |
01/24/2003 |
Interference of light |
01/24/2003 |
Projection amplitudes for linear and circular polarization |
02/03/2003 |
Simple models of the atom |
02/05/2003 |
Correspondence principle |
02/10/2003 |
The stationary Schroedinger equation |
02/19/2003 |
Solutions of Schroedinger's equation in one dimension |
02/28/2003 |
Coherent states for the harmonic oscillator potential |
02/28/2003 |
Two quantum particles |
03/07/2003 |
Normalization and probability density |
03/24/2003 |
Review of the meaning of the wave function |
04/02/2003 |
Scattering |
04/07/2003 |
The Dirac delta function |
04/14/2003 |
Eigenfunctions for Lz and L2 |
04/21/2003 |
Vibration energies of molecules |
05/02/2003 |
Hydrogen-like systems |
1st | week, handed out on | 01/23/03, due on 01/30/03 | Section and Homework 1 |
question and answer |
2nd | week, handed out on | 01/30/03, due on 02/05/03 | Section and Homework 2 | question and answer and a briefer about complex numbers |
3rd | week, handed out on | 02/05/03, due on 02/12/03 | Section and Homework 3 | question and answer |
4th | week, handed out on | 02/12/03, due on 02/19/03 | Section and Homework 4 | question and answer |
5th | week, handed out on | 02/19/03, due on 02/26/03 | Section | question |
6th | week, handed out on | 02/26/03, due on 03/05/03 | Section and Homework 5 | question and answer |
7th | week, handed out on | 03/05/03, due on 03/12/03 | Section and Homework 6 | question and answer |
8th | week, handed out on | 03/12/03, due on 03/28/03 | Section and Homework 7 | question and answer |
9th | week, handed out on | 03/28/03, due on 04/04/03 | Section and Homework 8 | question and answer |
10th | week, handed out on | 04/04/03, due on 04/11/03 | Section and Homework 9 | question and answer |
11th | week, handed out on | 04/11/03, due on 04/18/03 | Section and Homework 10 | question and answer |
12th | week, handed out on | 04/18/03, due on 04/25/03 | Section and Homework 11 | question and answer |
13th | week, handed out on | 04/25/03, due on 05/02/03 | Section and Homework 12 | question and answer |
1st quiz, | 02/14/03: |
Questions and take home exam due on 02/26/03 answers |
2nd quiz, | 03/14/03: |
Questions and answers |
3rd quiz, | 04/11/03: |
Questions and answers |
final exam, | 05/08/03: |
Auxiliary material for quizes
and for the final exam |
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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 |
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Last Update: 05-08-2003