Physics 314   Syllabus & Schedule   Spring 1999

Revised March 1 1999

Date Section CoveredTopic
W Jan 20
5.2  
Atoms
F Jan 22
"  
"
M Jan 25
5.3  
Solids
W Jan 27
"  
"
F Jan 29
"  
"
M Feb 1
5.4  
Quantum Statistical Mechanics
W Feb 3
"  
"
F Feb 5
"  
"
M Feb 8
6.1  
Perturbation Theory
W Feb 10
6.2  
Degenerate Perturbation Theory
F Feb 12
"  
"
M Feb 15
"  
"
W Feb 17
6.3  
Fine Structure
F Feb 19
6.5  
Hyperfine Splitting
M Feb 22
Chapt. 5 & 6.1-2  
Review
W Feb 24
Chapt. 5 & 6.1-2  
Test 1
F Feb 26
6.4
Zeeman Effect
M Mar 1
"  
"
W Mar 3
"  
"
F Mar 5
7.1  
Variational Principle
M Mar 15
7.2  
Helium atom ground state
W Mar 17
"  
"
F Mar 19
7.3  
H2+   ion
M Mar 22
8.1  
WKB approximation
W Mar 24
"  
"
F Mar 26
8.2  
Tunneling
M Mar 29
8.3  
Connection Formulae
W Mar 31
"  
"
F Apr 2
9.1  
Time Dependent Perturbation Theory
M Apr 5
Chapt. 6,7,8 
Review
W Apr 7
Chapt. 6,7,8  
Test II
F Apr 9
9.1  
Time Dependent Perturbation Theory
M Apr 12
9.2  
Radiation
W Apr 14
"  
"
F Apr 16
9.3  
Spontaneous Emission
M Apr 19
"  
"
W Apr 21
11.1  
Scattering
F Apr 23
11.2  
Partial Wave Analysis
M Apr 26
"  
"
W Apr 28
11.3  
Born Approximation
F Apr 30
Appendix  
EPR, Bell's Theorem and all that

Final Exam : Tuesday May 4th

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