Class meeting date
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Lecture subject
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Recommended reading
|
January 19
|
Thermal radiation
and Planck’s postulate
|
Chapter 1
|
January 24
|
Photons - Particle-like
properties of radiation
|
Chapter 2
|
January 26
|
Photons - Particle-like
properties of radiation
|
Chapter 2
|
January 31
|
The Broglie’s
postulate - wavelike properties of particles
|
Chapter 3
|
February 2 |
NO CLASS
|
|
February 7
|
Bohr’s model of the atom
|
Chapter 4
|
February 9
|
Bohr’s model of the atom
|
Chapter 4
|
February 14 |
Schroedinger’s theory of quantum mechanics |
Chapter 5
|
February 16
|
Schroedinger’s theory of quantum mechanics
|
Chapter 5
|
February 21
|
Midterm Exam # 1
|
Chapters 1 - 4
|
February 21
|
Solutions of time-independent Schroedinger equations
|
Chapter 6
|
February 23
|
Solutions of time-independent Schroedinger equations
|
Chapter 6
|
February 28
|
Solutions of
time-independent Schroedinger equations
|
Chapter 6
|
March 1
|
One-electron atoms
|
Chapter 7
|
March 6
|
One-electron atoms
|
Chapter 7
|
March 8
|
Magnetic dipole moment, spin, and transition rates
|
Chapter 8
|
March 20
|
Magnetic dipole
moment, spin, and transition rates
|
Chapter 8
|
March 22
|
Multielectron atoms - ground state and X-ray excitation
|
Chapter 9
|
March 27
|
Midterm Exam # 2
|
Chapters 5 - 8
|
March 27
|
Multielectron atoms - ground state and X-ray excitation
|
Chapter 9
|
March 29
|
Multielectron
atoms - optical excitations
|
Chapter 10
|
April 3
|
Multielectron
atoms - optical excitations
|
Chapter 10
|
April 5
|
Quantum statistics |
Chapter 11
|
April 10
|
|
Chapter 11
|
April 12
|
Nuclear decay and nuclear reactions
|
Chapter 16
|
April 17
|
Nuclear decay and nuclear reactions
|
Chapter 16
|
| April 19
|
Introduction to elementary particles
|
Chapter 17
|
April 24
|
Midterm Exam # 3
|
Chapters 9 - 11
|
April 24
|
Introduction
to elementary particles
|
Chapter 17
|
April 26
|
More elementary particles
|
Chapter 18
|
May 1
|
More elementary particles
|
Chapter 18
|
May 9
|
Final Exam
|
Chapters 1 - 11, 17 - 18
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