SP327 – Twentieth Century Physics Course Outline – Fall 2015 Instructor: Professor Debora M. Katz VERSION 20OCT15 Week 1 (24 – 28 Aug) Week 2 (31 Aug – 4 Sep) Week 3 (7 – 11 Sep) Week 4 (14 – 18 Sep) Week 5 (21 – 25 Sep) Week 6 (28 Sep– 02 Oct) Week 7 (5 – 9 Oct) Week 8 (12 – 16 Oct) Week 9 (19 – 23 Oct) Week 10 (26 Oct – 30 Oct) Week 11 (2 – 6 Nov) Week 12 (9 – 13 Nov) Week 13 (16 – 20 Nov) Week 14 (23 – 27 Nov) Week 15 (30 Nov – 4 Dec) Week 16 (7 - 11 Dec) Day T R T R Lesson 1 2 3 4 Chapter 1 2 2 2 Section(s) 1–2 1 – 2; App A 3 4–5 T R 6 7 2 3 7-8 1-3 M T R — — 5 — — 2 — — — — T R 10 11 4 4 T R 14 15 T — — T R T R T R T R T R R T R T R T R T R 8 9 3 4 — — 6-7 — — 4–6 1–3 12 13 — — 5 5 — — 3–5 6−7 1–3 4−5 — — 16 17 5 5 8-9 11 6 6 1− 2 2−3 7 7 1–3 4–5 18 19 20 21 22 23 — 5 5 — — 6 7 — Topic Course Introduction Einstein’s Postulates and their Consequences The Lorentz Transformation Equations The Twin Paradox and The Doppler Effect Labor Day Holiday: No Classes Monday Schedule: No Class The Velocity Transformation Equations and Relativistic Momentum, Energy Relativistic Momentum, Energy and Dynamics, Basic; Ideas of General Relativity Blackbody Radiation (App C -- optional); the Photoelectric Effect and X-Rays Catch-up or Review Test 1: Chapter 2 (Relativity) The Compton Effect; Pair Production; and Wave or Particle? Electron Diffraction; Properties of Matter Waves; The Free-Particle Schrödinger Equation The Free-Particle Schrödinger Equation ; The Uncertainty Principle; Observers The Bohr Model of the Atom; The Uncertainty Principle and Fourier Transforms The Schrödinger Equation; Stationary States; Well-Behaved Functions Classical Bound States; An Infinite Potential Well Catch-up or Review Test 2: Chapters 3 – 4 (Waves and Particles) 6 7 A Finite Potential Well; A Simple Harmonic Oscillator — — Catch-up or Review Test 3: Chapter 5 (1-D Bound States) 3−4 6–7 — Expectation Values, Operators, Uncertainty; Non-stationary States; Well-defined Observables: Eigenvalues The Potential Step; The Potential Barrier and Tunneling Tunneling; Alpha Decay and other Applications of Tunneling Applications of Tunneling; Particle-Wave Propagation Thanksgiving: 26 – 27 Nov The Schrödinger Equation in Three Dimensions; Degeneracy; Spectral lines in Hydrogen The Schrödinger Equation for Central Forces The Hydrogen Atom Test 4: Chapters 6 – 7 (Unbound States; H atom)