- Syllabus: pdf
- Announcements:
- 2010-01-19: HW1 will be due on Monday, Jan 25.
- 2010-02-24: Exam II will be Thursday evening March 11 at 6:00-8:00 pm
- 2010-02-24: Class will be cancelled on Friday March 12
- 2010-05-10: Final scores have been posted (hist)
- Homework:
Due Date
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Problems
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Solutions
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HW1 Mon, Jan 25
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(pdf)
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(pdf, detail)
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HW2 Mon, Feb 01
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(pdf)
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(pdf, detail) |
| HW3 Fri, Feb 05 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW4 Wed, Feb 24 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW5 Fri Mar 05 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW6 Mon Mar 29 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW7 Mon Apr 05 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW8 Wed Apr 14 |
(pdf) |
(pdf, detail) |
| HW9 Wed Apr 28 |
Tippler & Llewellyn
ch9: #5, 6, 7, 11, 37;
ch10: #10, 16, 27;
ch11: #27, 34, 51 |
(pdf, detail) |
- Lecture Notes:
- Jan 13: 3-1 introduction (pdf)
- Jan 15: 8-1 intro to kinetic theory (pdf)
Chapter 3: Quantization of Charge, Light, and Energy
- Jan 18: MLK - academic holiday
- Jan 20: 8-1 distributions
- Jan 22: 3-2 blackbody radiation and Planck's law (pdf, ppt)
- Jan 25: 3-3 photoelectric effect (pdf)
Chapter 4: The Nuclear Atom
- Jan 27: 3-4 X-rays [demo] and Compton effect (pdf, ppt)
- Jan 29: 4-1 atomic spectra (ppt) [demo]
- Feb 01: 4-2 scattering cross sections [expt], nuclear model of the atom (pdf)
- Feb 03: 4-3 Bohr model of the atom (pdf)
Chapter 5: The Wavelike Properties of Particles
- Feb 05: 4-4,5 X-ray spectra, Franck-Hertz expt
- Feb 08: 5-1,2 de Broglie waves (pdf, ppt) [ movie ]
- Feb 10: Exam 1 (3-1 ... 5-2) [ study guide, practice 1, 2a (parts), and 2b (questions 1,2,4,11), exam, grades ]
- Feb 12: 5-3 particle-wave duality, superposition, (pdf) [tuning fork demo, rope wave demo]
- Feb 15: 5-4 complex numbers, wave number, pure waves (pdf) [superposition animation, Maple demo]
- Feb 17: 5-5,6 standing waves, beats, phase and group velocity (continued)
Chapter 6: The Schrodinger Equation
- Feb 19: 6-1 dispersion, example: gravity (water) waves (pdf), wave packets, [ deep, shallow waves, Fourier applet ]
- Feb 22: 6-2 Heisenberg uncertainty principle, dispersion of matter waves (continued) [TDSE applet ]
- Feb 24: 6-3 Potential wells, Schrodinger equation (TDSE and TISE) (pdf) [ TISE applet ]
- Feb 26: 6-4 infinite square well, finite square well, harmonic oscillator (pdf)
- Mar 01: 6-5,6 reflection and transmission of matter waves, tunneling (pdf)
- Mar 03: operators, eigenvalues, (pdf)
- Mar 05: expectation values, intro to 2-d waves (pdf) [Chladni plates demo]
Chapter 7: Atomic Physics
- Mar 08: 7-1 separation of variables, 2-d Cartesian coordinates (pdf)
- Mar 10: review for exam (pdf)
- Mar 11: 6:00-8:00 pm Exam 2 (5-3 ... 7-1) [ study guide, practice 1, 2a, 2b (parts of each), exam, grades ]
- Mar 12: CLASS CANCELLED (tour of ORNL for the SPS)
- Mar 15:
- Mar 17: spring break
- Mar 19:
- Mar 22: 7-2 spherical coordinates and hydrogen atom potential (pdf, ppt)
- Mar 24: 7-2,3 azimuthal angular momentum
- Mar 26: 7-2,3 total angular momentum
- Mar 29: 7-2,3 complete hydrogen atom wavefunction
- Mar 31: 7-6,7 multiple electrons, periodic table
- Apr 02: 7-4 electron spin, Stern-Gerlach exp, MRI, Zeeman effect (pdf) [top demo]
- Apr 05: 7-5 addition of angular momentum (pdf)
Chapter 8: Statistical Physics
- Apr 07: 8-1,2 classical statistics, multiparticle wave functions (pdf)
- Apr 09: 8-2 quantum statistics (pdf)
- Apr 12: 8-3,4 Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions (HeII movie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Apr 14: Exam 3 (7-3...8-5; 9-5,6) [ study guide, 1, 2, exam, grades ]
Chapters 9-12: Survey of Applications of Modern Physics
- Apr 16: 9-5 scattering, absorption, stimulated emission, lasers (pdf, ppt)
- Apr 19: 9-1,2 molecules: ionic and covalent bonding (pdf)
- Apr 21: 10-3,4 conduction (pdf)
- Apr 23: 10-6,8 semiconductors (pdf, ppt, Brillouin applet)
- Apr 26: 10-9 superconductors (pdf, ppt) [Meissner effect demo]
- Apr 28: 11-4,8 nuclear physics - nuclear decay, nuclear reactions (ppt)
- Apr 30: 12-1,2,3,4 particle physics - conservation, symmetry, fundamental particles and forces (pdf, ppt)
- May 05: 10:30 -- 12:30 Final Exam [study guide, exam grades, course grades]
- quantum mechanics demonstration applets
- Fourier analysis (wave packets) applet
- solutions of Schrodinger Equation
- other modern physics class websites:
- electromagnetic spectrum
- superposition of waves, interference patterns
- Tipler & Llewellyn, "Modern Physics" 5th ed.
- from THIS YEAR:
- p156, (MORE section) inconsistent use of I_0. (Kristen Brewick)
- p165 3rd line: normally written AS R_infinity (Daniel Woods)
- p205 before eq. 5-17: 'p=hk' should be 'p=hbar k' (Daniel Woods) (the book has a bar impediment)
- p218, prob 5-37: should be 'dp dx >= hbar/2', not 'dp dx> hbar' (Daniel Woods, proof)
- p239, text before eq 6-44: 0>x>L should be x<0 or x>L (Daniel Woods)
- p244, wavefunction should be: psi=sqrt(2/L)sin(n pi x/L), not (n x/L) (Nathan Rice)
- p256 eq 6-74: 0<x<a, not alpha (Jake Gamsky)
- p260, eq. 6-6: psi(x) should be Psi(x) (Daniel Woods)
- p263, prob 6-4: 'E=1/2 h omega' should be 'E=1/2 hbar omega' (yes, you guessed it) (Wayne Witzke)
- p275, near top, should explain switch from electron mass 'm' to reduced mass 'mu' (Jake Gamsky)
- p278, eq. 7-24: should be normal, not partial derivative, see eq. 7-12. (Jake Gamsky)
- p306 Topic 2: Energy equation should be 7-25, not 7-24 (Shawn Maynor)
- p323, eq. 8-12 should be e^(-E/kT) (Blaine Mullins)
- p323, eq. 8-12 should define A'=A.C (Blaine Mullins)
- p408 prob 9-5: Cl affinity =3.61 (table 9-1) and RbCl equilib. dist. = 0.279 nm (table 9-2) (Will Bates)
- p472 prob 10-10: <v> = 1.08x10^5 m/s (eq. 10-29 p 423) (Will Bates)
- pAP-6 Bromine 80BR should have all three decay modes: beta, beta+, ec (Will Bates)
- I-3 index, differential cross section: should be 'd sigma / d Omega' (Kristen Brewick)
- from LAST YEAR:
- inside front cover: 'k' has two different meanings:
electric force constant in 'ke2', and
Boltzman's constant in 'kT'.
inconsistency: some formulas use 'k' others 'e0'. Note:
'k = 1 / 4pe0'
- inside back cover: Bohr magneton: 'mB =
e hbar / 2 m'
- p120 room temperature is 300 K, not 300 C
- p124 eq 3-18: the 'e' should be
'e' (Tarla Thomas, Wade Hampton, Scott Reesor)
- p137 eq 3-25 'q'
is labelled 'f' in Fig.
3-16. (Nayeem Moulana)
the calcite scattering angle (not labelled in Fig. 3-16) is also
denoted 'q' in eq 3-23
- p150 formula 4-2 needs Z2 to account for
heavier elements and near constant R
- p172 caption, Fig. 4-20 "the artificially created
element"
- p177 eq. 4-20: E0 = m k2 e4 /
2 hbar2, not e2
- p189 last equation is missing units
- p242 quantum wires are 2-dimensional quantum wells
- p248 equation 6-57: ... Hn(sqrt(mw/hbar) x)
- p250 exploring parity: the two wavefunctions are not
degenerate because they are the same
- p261 in a distance small -> in a small distance
- p308 problem 7-15: should be min(L_x) = min(L_y)
- p341 2nd last paragraph, fraction of atoms in ground state is only 10% or so: refers to 3He
- p387 header: 9-1 Relativity
- p482 fig. 11-5: He *10 should be H*10
- pAP-37 1998: fractiionally
- back cover: element 52: Tellurium
- from publisher see details:
- 1. Page 6, line 2: The in-line equation should read ...
- 2. Page 19, second line of last paragraph: 1-12 should be 1-14
- 3. Page 22, unnumbered equation for between Equations 1-22 and 1-23 should be ...
- 4. Page 62, Problem 1-53, line 2: S should be S'
- 5. Page 165, Example 4-7, 3rd line: 5.0078 should be 6.6447
- 6. Page 166, Example 4-7: In the right side of the equation 5.0078 should be 6.6447 and in the next line 1.09752 should be 1.09722
- 7. Page 257, line 6: 6-64 should be 6-62
- 8. Page 266, Problem 6-45, 1st line: 9 V should be 9 eV
- 9. Page 274, two lines below Equation 7-15: should be |m|<=l
- 10. Page 280, Caption for Figure 7-6, next to the last line: ‘two’ should be ‘three’
- 11. Page 296, four lines above Equation 7-61: n = m should be n = m (i.e. italic)
- 12. Page 309, Problem 7-24: In the equation r2 should be r4
- 13. Page 309, Problem 7-30, 2nd line: Equation should be ...
- 14. Page 310, Problem 7-43, 2nd line: slowest should be lowest
- 15. Page 332, Example 8-6, Solution, (a): In the first display equation 'NA' should be 'N'
- 16. Page AP-32, insert: 1915 Sir William Henry Bragg 1862-1942 their services in the
William Lawrence Bragg 1890-1971 analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays
- 17. Page AP-34, 4th entry (Willis Lamb): b. 1913 should be 1913-2008
- 18. Page AP-37, 2001: ‘Weiman’ should be ‘Wieman’
- 19. Page facing inside rear cover, third line, Bohr magneton: should be mu = e hbar / 2 m
- Beiser, "Concepts of Modern Physics" 6th ed.
- p. 110 (Standard deviation) x_1 -> x_i in formula
for sigma
- p. 121 (bio: Rutherford) every dig -> ever dig
- p. 152 "given to it"
- p. 176 d/dx^2 -> d/dx
- p. 177 infintely
- p. 185 Psi -> psi
- p. 198 fig 5.17 "L"
- p. 226 #5: Exercise 12 -> Exercise 15
