Knowlton
MSE/ECE 310
Quiz 4 – Learning objectives
Topics:
• Lectures of course covering Chapter 3 of Kasap and Problem Set 3
• History of quantum mechanics
• Operators and complex numbers
• Fitting data, goodness of fit, physical validity of extracted parameters
Learning Objectives: For the quiz, the student should know how to:
• Explain the concepts of fitting data, the goodness of a fit to data, and the physical
validity of extracted parameters from fitting data.
• Determine CWFL from thermal versus electrical conductivity.
• Extract the work function from photoelectron (i.e., photoemission) data and
determine whether or not the photoelectron data is valid and explain how this data
is useful in today’s materials industries.
• Extract the Blackbody temperature from Blackbody Radiation data.
• Write down Planck’s Blackbody equation in terms of Bose-Einstein distribution
function.
• Define and explain the skin effect
• Define and explain the Hall effect
• Define and explain the effects of surface scattering of carriers in interconnects
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• Use quantum mechanical operators. J=
 Ψ * ( pˆ x Ψ ) − ( pˆ x Ψ *) Ψ  and
x
2m 
pˆ x =−i∇ x
• Explain what bosons, fermions, & boltzons are and what statistics result from
their behavior.
• Calculate the energy, frequency, wavelength, and momentum of bosons, fermions,
& boltzons, with or without rest mass.
• Explain the implications of Black Body Radiation, Photoelectron effect, Compton
Scattering, Diffraction by both light and electrons, and de Broglie’s concept and
resulting relation.
• Explain and use complex numbers.
• Explain the similarities of some common partial differential equations used in
engineering.
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