Course
Syllabus
Physics 330 Spring 2006
Professor Gold
Quantum Particles Chapter 5
- review of relativistic energy and momentum (chapter 4)
- de Broglie wavelength
- probability amplitude
- elements of classical probability
- diffraction of matter
- uncertainty principle
Quantum Mechanics Chapter 7
- Schrodinger equation: probability amplitudes, expectation values
- free particle: superposition, wave packets, uncertainty principle
- energy eigenstates: particle in a box, harmonic oscillator
- tunnelling
Atomic physics Chapters 8,9,10
- quantization of angular momentum
- energy eigenstates
- spin
- fine structure of Hydrogen
- atomic transitions
- zeeman effect
- lamb shift
- Pauli exclusion principle
- multielectron atoms and the periodic table
- the Hydrogen Molecule
Classical and Quantum Statistics Chapter 2,3,12
- ideal gas law
- Maxwell-Boltzmann
- density of states
- fermi-dirac distribution
- degeneracy pressure- neutron stars
- bose-einstein distribution
- black body radiation
- radiation pressure
- bose-einstein condensate
Conductors, Insulators, Semi-conductors 14
- electronic energy bands
- Fermi energy
- heat capacity
- Ohm's law
- semiconductors
- diode junction
Nuclear Physics Chapters 6,11
- scattering and the cross section
- the nuclear force: range, charge-independence, spin-dependence
(the deutron)
- nuclear structure
- radioactive decays and nuclear interactions
- Mossbauer effect
- interaction of radiation and bulk matter
Elementary Particles Chapters 16,17.18
- particle detectors
- particles and antiparticles
- hadron spectrocopy and quarks
- deep inelastic scattering-- quarks, gluons, QCD
- weak interactions
- Standard Model of Particle Physics
- search for the Higgs
Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology Chapter 19
- What is General Relativity?
- the Big Bang
- particle physics and the early universe
- dark matter
- dark energy