PHYS 485 Fall 2023
PHYS 485 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PHYS 485 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tentative Schedule
| Week | Topic | Lecture | Assignment | Reading | ||
| 1 | 21-Aug | Introduction; Wave and particle behaviors of light; Photoelectric effect | Lecture 1 powerpoint | Townsend 1.1-1.3 | ||
| 23-Aug | Quantum Properties of light; single photon interference | Lecture 2 powerpoint | Townsend 1.4-1.7 | |||
| 2 | 28-Aug | Particles as waves – de Broglie; atomic interferometry; crystal diffraction, Schrodinger Equation | Lecture 3 powerpoint | Townsend 2.1-2.3 D1 | ||
| 30-Aug | Sch. Eq. II, free particles, wave packets, uncertainty principle | Lecture 4 poweropint | Townsend 2.3-2.7 | |||
| 3 | 4-Sep | Labor Day - Holiday | ||||
| 6-Sep | Sch. Eq. II, free particles, wave packets, uncertainty principle (contd) | Lecture 5 powerpoint | Townsend 2.3-2.7 | |||
| 4 | 11-Sep | Expectation Values, Probabilities, Time-indep Schr. Eq, Particle in a box |
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HW2 Solutions | Townsend 2.8, 3.1-3.2 | |
| 13-Sep | Particle in a box, Philosophy, time dependence, Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues | Townsend 3.2-3.4 | ||||
| 5 | 18-Sep | Superpositions, Wavefunctions,, bound states | Townsend 4.1-4.2 | |||
| 20-Sep | Simple harmonic oscillator | Townsend 4.3 | ||||
| 6 | 25-Sep | Simple harmonic oscillator |
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Townsend 4.3-4.5 | ||
| 27-Sep |
Scattering – step potential and probability current |
Townsend 4.5-4.6 | ||||
| 7 | 2-Oct |
Tunneling and STM |
Townsend 4.7 | |||
| 4-Oct |
Interlude: Special Talk: Quantum and Cosmology (Zihan Li) Principles of QM, Schrodinger's cat, qubits |
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Ch5 |
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| 8 | 9-Oct |
Mid-Term Review in class |
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| 11-Oct | ||||||
| 9 | 16-Oct |
Principles of QM, quantum cats, entanglement (contd) Special Talk: Public Quantum Network Launch |
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Townsend Ch 5 | ||
| 18-Oct | Schrodinger’s equation in 3D | Lecture 15 powerpoint | Townsend 6.1 | |||
| 10 | 23-Oct | Spherical coordinates and angular momentum |
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HW4 (due Nov3) HW4 Solutions |
Townsend 6.2 | |
| 25-Oct | Hydrogen Atom – Wavefunctions | Townsend 6.3 | ||||
| 11 | 30-Oct | Hyrdogen contd.; Zeeman effect – spin | Townsend 6.4, 6.5 | |||
| 1-Nov | Spin physics: MRI | |||||
| 12 | 6-Nov | Spin Physics, MRI; Identical Particles |
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Towndsend 6.4, 65; 7.1, 7.2 | ||
| 8-Nov | Identical Particles; Quantum Statistical Mechanics | Townsend 7.1, 7.2 | ||||
| 13 | 13-Nov | Bosons, Blackbody radiation, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation | Townsend 7.6-7.8 | |||
| 15-Nov | Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) | Townsend 7.6-7.5 | ||||
| 14 | 18-Nov to 26-Nov | Fall Break - Thanksgiving | ||||
| 15 | 27-Nov | Pauli’s exclusion, Fermi energy | Townsend 7.3-7.5 | |||
| 29-Nov | Fermions: Stellar bodies--white dwarfs, neutron stars; Solids-Bandstructure , Electrical Properties | Lecture 25 powerpoint | Townsend 8.1-8.3 | |||
| 16 | 4-Dec | Semiconductors and Superconductivity | Lecture 26 powerpoint | Townsend 8.4 | ||
| 6-Dec | Review ---instruction ends | Final Review powerpoint | ||||
| 17 | Dec--Exam wk |
FINAL EXAM |
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