PHYS 485 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Tentative Schedule

PARTICIPATION QUESTIONS 08/30-11/16

Week Topic Lecture Assignment Reading
1 23-Aug Introduction; Wave and particle behaviors of light; Photoelectric effect Lecture 1 powerpoint   Townsend 1.1-1.3
25-Aug Quantum Properties of light; single photon interference  Lecture 2 powerpoint   Townsend 1.4-1.7 
2 30-Aug Particles as waves – de Broglie; atomic interferometry; crystal diffraction, Schrodinger Equation  Lecture 3 powerpoint

HW 1 (due Sep10)

HW1 Solutions

 Townsend 2.1-2.3  D1
1-Sep Sch. Eq. II, free particles, wave packets, uncertainty principle Lecture 4 poweropint   Townsend 2.3-2.7
3 6-Sep Labor Day - Holiday
8-Sep Sch. Eq. II, free particles, wave packets, uncertainty principle (contd)  Lecture 5 powerpoint   Townsend 2.3-2.7 
4 13-Sep Expectation Values, Probabilities, Time-indep Schr. Eq, Particle in a box  Lecture 6 powerpoint   Townsend 2.8, 3.1-3.2 
15-Sep Particle in a box, Philosophy, time dependence, Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues Lecture 7 powerpoint

HW 2 (due Sept 24)

HW Solutions

 Townsend 3.2-3.4
5 20-Sep Quantum Wells, bound states Lecture 8 powerpoint   Townsend 4.1-4.2
22-Sep Simple harmonic oscillator Lecture 9 powerpoint   Townsend 4.3
6 27-Sep Simple harmonic oscillator Lecture 10 powerpoint

HW3 (due Oct 8)

HW Solutions

 Townsend 4.3-4.5  
29-Sep

Scattering – step potential and probability current

Lecture 11 powerpoint

   Townsend 4.5-4.6
7 4-Oct

Tunneling and STM 

 Lecture 12 powerpoint    Townsend 4.7 
6-Oct

Interlude: 

Special Talk: Nuclear Theory Research and its Quantum Nature(Jordi Salinas)

Principles of QM, Schrodinger's cat, qubits

Lecture 13 powerpoint

 

Nuclear Theory Special Talk

  

Ch5
8 11-Oct

Mid-Term Review in class

Midterm Review powerpoint
13-Oct

Mid-Term (Details to follow) 

Mid-Term Solns
9 18-Oct

 

Principles of QM, quantum cats, entanglement (contd)

 

Lecture 14 powerpoint

Condensed Matter Physics Special Talk

   Townsend Ch 5
20-Oct Schrodinger’s equation in 3D  Lecture 15 powerpoint   Townsend 6.1
10 25-Oct Spherical coordinates and angular momentum  Lecture 16 powerpoint HW4 (due Nov5)
HW Solutions		 Townsend 6.2
27-Oct Hydrogen Atom – Wavefunctions Lecture 17 powerpoint   Townsend 6.3
11 1-Nov Hyrdogen contd.; Zeeman effect – spin  Lecture 18 powerpoint   Townsend 6.4, 6.5
3-Nov Spin physics: MRI Lecture 19 powerpoint    
12 8-Nov Spin Physics, MRI; Identical Particles Lecture 20 powerpoint

HW5 (due Nov 21) extension given

HW5 Solutions

 Towndsend 6.4, 65; 7.1, 7.2
10-Nov Identical Particles; Quantum Statistical Mechanics Lecture 21 powerpoint   Townsend 7.1, 7.2
13 15-Nov Bosons, Blackbody radiation, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Lecture 22 powerpoint   Townsend 7.6-7.8
17-Nov  Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)

Lecture 23 powerpoint

BEC Special Talk

 HW6 (due Dec 7) HW6 Solutions Townsend 7.6-7.5 
14 21-Nov to 28-Nov Fall Break - Thanksgiving 
15 29-Nov Pauli’s exclusion, Fermi energy Lecture 24 powerpoint   Townsend 7.3-7.5
1-Dec Fermions: Stellar bodies--whote dwarves, neutron stars; Solids-Bandstructure , Electrical Properties; Semiconductors  Lecture 25 powerpoint   Townsend 8.1-8.3
16 6-Dec Superconductivity Lecture 26 powerpoint   Townsend 8.4
8-Dec Review ---instruction ends Final Review powepoint    
17 13-Dec FINAL EXAM--December 13, 7-10pm