Home Page of the Lectures "316: Modern Physics", Spring 2003


Professor:
Georg Hoffstaetter

255-5197, Georg.Hoffstaetter@cornell.edu
Teaching Assistant: Pierre Thibault, B83 Rockefeller Hall, pt68@cornell.edu


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

Scattering on a barrier    Reflection from a barrier  

Dates

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
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 !


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

01/20/2003
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


Exercises

exercises for 1st week 1st week, handed out on 01/23/03, due on 01/30/03 Section and Homework 1
question and answer
exercises for 1st week 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
exercises for 1st week 3rd week, handed out on 02/05/03, due on 02/12/03 Section and Homework 3 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 4th week, handed out on 02/12/03, due on 02/19/03 Section and Homework 4 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 5th week, handed out on 02/19/03, due on 02/26/03 Section question
exercises for 1st week 6th week, handed out on 02/26/03, due on 03/05/03 Section and Homework 5 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 7th week, handed out on 03/05/03, due on 03/12/03 Section and Homework 6 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 8th week, handed out on 03/12/03, due on 03/28/03 Section and Homework 7 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 9th week, handed out on 03/28/03, due on 04/04/03 Section and Homework 8 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 10th week, handed out on 04/04/03, due on 04/11/03 Section and Homework 9 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 11th week, handed out on 04/11/03, due on 04/18/03 Section and Homework 10 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 12th week, handed out on 04/18/03, due on 04/25/03 Section and Homework 11 question and answer
exercises for 1st week 13th week, handed out on 04/25/03, due on 05/02/03 Section and Homework 12 question and answer


Quizes and Final Exam

exercises for 1st week 1st quiz, 02/14/03:
Questions and take home exam due on 02/26/03 answers
exercises for 1st week 2nd quiz, 03/14/03:
Questions and answers
exercises for 1st week 3rd quiz, 04/11/03:
Questions and answers
exercises for 1st week final exam, 05/08/03:



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

Grading

The weekly homework assignment is due at the beginning of each section 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: 05-08-2003