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WEEK
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DATES
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LECTURE TOPICS
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READING
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1
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Wed 9/5
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1. Introduction/Foundation I
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1.1-1.2
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2
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Mon 9/10
Wed 9/12
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2. Foundation II
3. Schrödinger
Equation I
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1.2-1.4
2.1-2.2
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3
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Mon 9/17
Wed 9/19
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4. Schrödinger Equation II
5. Potential Wells I
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2.3-2.4
3.1-3.2
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4
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Mon 9/24
Wed 9/26
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6. Potential Wells II
7. Potential Barriers
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3.3-3.6
3.7-3.9
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5
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Mon 10/1
Wed 10/3
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8. Scattering/Operators & Expectation Values
9. Uncertainty Principle and Commutators
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3.10-4.2
4.3-4.5
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6
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Mon 10/8
Wed 10/10
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10. Orthogonality and
Superposition
11. Harmonic Oscillator
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4.6-4.9
5.1-5.6
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7
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Mon 10/15
Wed 10/17
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12. Review for Midterm Exam
13. Midterm Exam (in class 1:40
- 3 pm)
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8
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Mon 10/22
Wed 10/24
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14. Post-exam review
15. Schrödinger’s Equation in 3D
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6.1-6.2
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9
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Mon 10/29
Wed 11/31
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16. Classes cancelled - hurricane
17. Classes cancelled - hurricane
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10
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Mon 11/5
Wed 11/7
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18. Angular momentum
19. Hydrogen like atoms (S.E. in
central fields)
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6.2-6.5
7.1,
7.4, 7.5
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11
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Mon 11/12
Wed 11/14
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20. Orbital momentum, magnetic
momentum of electron in H atom, spin, Stern-Gerlach experiment.
21. Bohr’s magneton, spin cont’d, energy level
diagrams in zero and non-zero B field, 2n2 degeneracy, Zeeman
splitting, selection rules for radiative transitions; multi-electron
atom, Pauli exclusion principle, symmetric and antisymmetric psi-functions.
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8.2
8.2, 8.4
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12
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Mon 11/19
Wed 11/21
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22. Adding angular momenta, total
angular and magnetic moments (j
and mj),
g-factor for j and mj,
Spin-Orbit coupling.
23. No lecture (Friday classes schedule)
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lec. notes
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13
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Mon 11/26
Wed 11/28
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24. Electron in a periodic
potential. Bloch functions. Energy bands in a crystal.
25. No lecture
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pdf
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14
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Mon 12/3
Wed 12/5
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26. More on S∙L coupling,
Review for Final Exam.
27. Review for Final Exam cont’d.
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16
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Wed 12/19
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Final Exam (8 - 11 am),
SEC 209
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