| Week | Ch | Session | Notes |
H-Work |
| 1/11 | 0 | Review Waves & Mechanics |
Double
Slit |
hw1 |
| 1/18 | 1 | Wave and Particle Duality |
Photoelectric Effect
PhET |
hw2p |
1/25 | 1 | Wave and Particle Duality |
Planck's assumptions
| |
| |
Bohr Model |
Bragg Scattering
Braggs
Legacy
|
hw3 |
| |
Davisson-Germer Experiment
|
Crystallography
|
|
| 2/1 | 2 | Schroedinger Wave Equation |
Finite 1D Well |
hw4 |
| |
Brief History of QM (I)
|
Harmonic Oscillator | |
| 2/8 | 3 | Operators and Waves |
Imaging Atoms |
hw5 |
| |
Potential Barriers
and Steps
|
Quantum Tunneling (PhET) | |
| 2/15 | 3/4 | Schroedinger Eq. in 3D |
Hydrogen Atom
Stellar Atmospheres |
|
| |
H Radial Functions |
Spherical Harmonics |
hw6p |
| 2/22 | 4 | Hydrogen Atom |
| Exam 1 |
| 2/29 | |
Spring Break --------------- NOVA:
|
Quantum Theory - Documentary |
|
| 3/07 | 4 |
H-Atom: Fine Structure, Zeeman Effect |
Hydrogen Wave Functions | hw7
|
| 3/14 | 5 |
Electron Spin |
Many-Electron Atoms ,
Atomic States |
hw8 |
| 3/21 | 6 |
X-Rays ,
X-ray Astronomy |
Lasers,
How Lasers work,
Simulation |
hw9p |
| 3/28 | 11 |
Michaelson Morley
Experiment
Space-Time |
Simple Relativity,
Einstein Documentary |
hw10 |
| 4/4 | 12 |
MIT GameLab: Slower Speed of Light |
YT Playthrough
| hw11 |
| 4/11 | 14 |
Some Nuclear Units
Chart of Nuclides
Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula |
Nuclear Chart today,
Marie Curie |
hw12 |
| 4/18 | 14 |
Nuclear Force, Fission,
Fusion
History of Nuclear Fission,
CERN: cloud chamber,
Symmetry Magazin: Build your own,
video
|
Island of Stability in
Nuclear
Physics
KATRIN Experiment,
Majorana
Project
FRIB at MSU
|
|
| 4/29 | | Final Exam |
1-3 pm |
Rm 035 |
