Physics 333 Fall 2008 Lectures

1. Math introduction (App. K)
2. Blackbody radiation (Appendix C and Ch. 3)
3. Photoelectric effect (Ch. 3)
4. The Compton Effect (Ch. 3)
5. Wave-Particle Duality (Ch. 3 & 4)
6. Matter Waves and the Uncertainty Principle (Ch. 4)
7. The Bohr Atom (Ch. 4)
8. Uncertainty, Wave Packets and Fourier Transforms (Ch. 4)
9. The Schrodinger equation (Ch. 5)
10. The Infinite Square Well (Ch. 5)
11. The Finite Square Well (Ch. 5)
12. The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (Ch. 5)
13. Expectation Values (Ch. 5)
14. Step Potential (Ch. 6)
15. Barriers and Tunneling (Ch. 6)
16. Dispersion (Ch. 6)
17. 3d Schrodinger equation (Ch. 7)
18. Hydrogen atom - the azimuthal equation (Ch. 7)
19. Hydrogen atom - the polar equation (Ch. 7)
20. Hydrogen atom - the radial equation (Ch. 7)
21. Hydrogen-like atoms and photon rules (Ch. 7)
22. Spin (Ch. 8)
23. Identical particles (Ch. 8)
24. Multielectron atoms (Ch. 8)
25. Molecular bonding (Ch. 10)
26. Lasers

Other resources:

Heisenberg exhibit at AIP: http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08b.htm

Tipler's discussion of the double slit experiment (http://www.whfreeman.com/MODPHYSICS/PDF/5-1c.pdf) for lecture 5 (pdf)

Harris Modern Physics website: http://wps.aw.com/aw_harris_mp_2/69/17800/4556992.cw/index.html

The Wave Packet Explorer from Visual Quantum Mechanics (Kansas State): http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/vqm/html/wpe.html

Tipler's discussion of the finite potential well problem (http://www.whfreeman.com/MODPHYSICS/PDF/6-1c.pdf)

University of Colorado Quantum Phenomena java simulations: http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/index.php?cat=Quantum_Phenomena&st=-1

Still more simulations, this time using the Mathematica Player available at the same site: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/topic.html?topic=Quantum+Mechanics&limit=20

How to derive the Laplacian operator in spherical coordinates from the Cartesian form (just in case you haven't seen this before!): http://planetmath.org/?method=l2h&from=collab&id=76&op=getobj

The Hydrogen Atom:

The Legendre equation and its solutions: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LegendreDifferentialEquation.html

More than you ever wanted to know about spherical harmonics: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html

How quantum dots work (Evident Technologies): http://www.evidenttech.com/quantum-dots-explained/180.html

Tipler and Llewellyn's discussion of electron dipole radiation in atoms: http://www.whfreeman.com/MODPHYSICS/PDF/6-2c.pdf

The Stern Gerlach experiment and its connection to a bad cigar: http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-12/p53.html

If you are in the mood for an interesting story, read Samuel Goudsmit's account of the origin of the spin hypothesis: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html

The Hyperphysics pages on multi-electron atomic energy levels and quantum numbers: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atomic/atstruct.html#c1

Tipler and Llewellyn's discussion of the Zeeman Effect: http://www.whfreeman.com/MODPHYSICS/PDF/7-2bw.pdf

Spintronics (American Scientist article): http://www.physics.umd.edu/cmtc/earlier_papers/AmSci.pdf

Tipler and Llewellyn's discussion of covalent bonding: http://www.whfreeman.com/MODPHYSICS/PDF/9-1c.pdf

Mr. Stickman Quantum Physics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FKeC4QS5k

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