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