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

HW 1 (due Sep8)

HW1 Solutions

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 

Lecture 6 powerpoint

 

HW 2 (due Sept 24)

HW2 Solutions
Townsend 2.8, 3.1-3.2 
13-Sep Particle in a box, Philosophy, time dependence, Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues

Lecture 7 powerpoint

  Townsend 3.2-3.4
5 18-Sep Superpositions, Wavefunctions,, bound states

Lecture 8 powerpoint

  Townsend 4.1-4.2
20-Sep Simple harmonic oscillator

Lecture 9 powerpoint

  Townsend 4.3
6 25-Sep Simple harmonic oscillator

Lecture 10 powerpoint

 

HW3 (due Oct 6)

HW3 Solutions

Townsend 4.3-4.5  
27-Sep

Scattering – step potential and probability current

Lecture 11 powerpoint

  Townsend 4.5-4.6
7 2-Oct

Tunneling and STM 

Lecture 12 powerpoint 

  Townsend 4.7 
4-Oct

Interlude: 

Special Talk: Quantum and Cosmology (Zihan Li)

Principles of QM, Schrodinger's cat, qubits

Lecture 13 powerpoint

 

 

 

Ch5

8 9-Oct

Mid-Term Review in class

Midterm Review powerpoint

Formula Sheet

11-Oct

Mid-Term 

9 16-Oct

 

Principles of QM, quantum cats, entanglement (contd)

Special Talk: Public Quantum Network Launch
                     By Prof. GIna Lorenz

 

Lecture 14 powerpoint

 

  Townsend Ch 5
18-Oct Schrodinger’s equation in 3D  Lecture 15 powerpoint   Townsend 6.1
10 23-Oct Spherical coordinates and angular momentum 

Lecture 16 powerpoint

 

HW4 (due Nov3)
HW4 Solutions
Townsend 6.2
25-Oct Hydrogen Atom – Wavefunctions

Lecture 17 powerpoint

  Townsend 6.3
11 30-Oct Hyrdogen contd.; Zeeman effect – spin 

Lecture 18 powerpoint

  Townsend 6.4, 6.5
1-Nov Spin physics: MRI

Lecture 19 powerpoint

   
12 6-Nov Spin Physics, MRI; Identical Particles

Lecture 20 powerpoint

 

HW5 (due Nov 20) 

HW5 Solutions

Towndsend 6.4, 65; 7.1, 7.2
8-Nov Identical Particles; Quantum Statistical Mechanics

Lecture 21 powerpoint

  Townsend 7.1, 7.2
13 13-Nov Bosons, Blackbody radiation, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Lecture 22 powerpoint

  Townsend 7.6-7.8
15-Nov  Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)

Lecture 23 powerpoint

BEC Special Talk

HW6 (due Dec 8)

HW6 Solutions

Townsend 7.6-7.5 
14 18-Nov to 26-Nov Fall Break - Thanksgiving 
15 27-Nov Pauli’s exclusion, Fermi energy

Lecture 24 powerpoint

  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
Tuesday December 12, 1.30-4.30pm

3025 Campus Instructional Facility