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 |
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Dates |
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Mo | 01/ 26/ 04 | Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | First lecture |
We |
01/ 28/ 04 |
First
section |
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We |
02/ 25/ 04 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Quiz |
Fr |
03/ 19/ 04 |
Room 132, Rockefeller Hall | Quiz |
03/ 20 - 03/
28 |
Spring break |
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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
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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
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10:00 - 12:00 | Room 118, Newman Lab | Office hours, Hoffstaetter |
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 |
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Vibration energies of molecules |
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Hydrogen-like systems |
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math questionare on |
01/28/04 |
question and answer | |
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week, handed out on | 01/30/04, due on 02/06/04 | Homework 1 |
question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 02/06/04, due on 02/13/04 | Homework 2 | question and answer and a briefer about complex numbers |
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week, handed out on | 02/13/04, due on 02/20/04 | Homework 3 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 02/20/04, due on 02/27/04 | Homework 4 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 02/27/04, due on 03/05/04 | Homework 5 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 03/05/04, due on 03/12/04 | Homework 6 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 03/12/04, due on 03/19/04 | Homework 7 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 03/19/04, due on 04/02/04 | Homework 8 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 04/02/04, due on 04/09/04 | Homework 9 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 04/09/04, due on 04/16/04 | Homework 10 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 04/19/04, due on 04/23/04 | Homework 11 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 04/26/04, due on 04/30/04 | Homework 12 | question and answer |
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week, handed out on | 04/30/04, due on 05/07/04 | Homework 13 | question and answer |
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02/ 25/ 04: |
Questions and answers |
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03/ 19/ 04: |
Questions and answers |
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04/ 19/ 04: |
Questions and answers |
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05/ 13/ 04: |
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: 01-28-2004