PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Subjects covered before Hour Exam 1

 

Many worked problems in this channel: worked problems

Here are a few unordered worked problems that are a little older but still very useful and relevant for the course.

• Frequency, wavelength, and phase differences
• Reading wave parameters from a graph
• Interference for two slits
• Interference in an interferometer
• Phasor addition
• Diffraction: computing the resolution of a telescope
• Number of photons in a light source
• Photoelectric effect
• Basics of complex numbers for quantum mechanics
• Probability and Intensity
• Probability Amplitudes
• Wave functions and probability
• Electron Momentum
• Free Electron Wavefunction
• Infinite Square Well Absorption
• Heisenberg Relation for a Square Well
• Harmonic Oscillator
• Multiple Electrons
• Many Electron Filling