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


Professor:
Georg Hoffstaetter


(607)255-5197, 118 Newman Lab, Georg.Hoffstaetter@cornell.edu
(607)254-8981, 226 Wilson Lab, www.lepp.cornell.edu/~hoff
Teaching Assistants: (1) Steve Drasco, sd68@cornell.edu, (607)255-6789, 611 Space Science, http://baba.astro.cornell.edu
(2) Pierre Thibault, pt68@cornell.edu,  (607)255-6072, 516 Clark Hall



Literature 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

Required:
Optional:
Related material:


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

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


Quizes and Final Exam

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



Auxiliary material for 2nd quiz and final exam
1. One handwritten page of formulas
2. No calculators, no computers
3.
No lecture notes
4. No solutions from the exercises
5. No books
6.
No cell phones


Preparation

Prerequisite physics courses at Cornell: Physics 214 or Physics 218

List of math courses at Cornell.
Mathematical 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 Quizzes is worth 10% and the final is worth 40% of the grade.

Academic integrity

Academic Integrity is mandatory.

Basic principle: Do not pretend that the work or ideas of others are your own
1) You may discuss the exercises with others
2) You have to credit documents or people if you have used their ideas
3) You may not copy equations or derivations from other homeworks
4) You may use all explicitly allowed help in exams, but nothing else.


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Last Update: 04-26-2005