PHYS401 QUANTUM PHYSICS I

- University of Maryland, College Park -

Spring 2012

Class: M 3-4:50PM, WF 3-3:50PM in PHYS 1402
Instructor: Prof. Ian Appelbaum
Office Hours: Friday 4pm at Physics 1368 (CNAM annex)
Phone: x5-0890
email: appelbaum at physics.umd.edu OR appeli at umd.edu

TA: Wen, Zhe 0220 John S. Toll Physics Building - x5 5969 zwen@umd.edu
Office hour: Friday 1pm

Syllabus
Schedule


Homework

Links

Lectures

Exams

HW1 soln FREE Matlab clone (octave) 1: Intro and some history (1/25) Exam 1 (2/13)
HW2 soln PHYS401 MATLAB guide 2: Math Review I (1/27) Exam 2 (3/26)
HW3 soln FFT lab 3: Math Review II (1/30) Exam 3 (4/23)
HW4 soln UMD virtual computer lab (Matlab) 4: Math Review III (2/1) Final Exam (5/15)
HW5 soln photon interference 5: Math Review IV (2/3)
HW6 soln Electron interference (physicsworld) 6: Math Review V (2/6)
HW7 soln electron interference (AVI movie) 7: electron interference (2/8)
HW8 soln 8: Schrödinger Eqn (2/10)
HW9 soln 9: Evolution of Gaussian wavefunction (2/15)
HW10 soln 10: Expectation values (2/17)
HW11 soln 11: Heisenberg uncertainty and time-independent Schrödinger Eqn (2/20)
HW12 soln 12: Finite QW, boundary conditions and Matrix Hamiltonian (2/22)
HW13 soln 13: Coupled Finite QWs, degeneracy, boundary condition exception (2/24)
14: Attractive delta function potential (2/27)
15: Periodic potentials (3/2)
16: Harmonic oscillator (algebraic method) (3/5)
17: Harmonic oscillator (numerical solution) and Heisenberg reln (3/7)
18: Classical probability distribution of the harmonic oscillator (3/9)
19: Brute force solution of Harmonic oscillator (3/12)
20: Scattering states and transmission coefficient (3/14)
21: Scattering matrix (3/16)
22: Scattering matrix examples (3/28)
23: Resonance and quasi-bound states (3/30)
24: Scattering in finite differences (4/2)
25: Dispersion relation and transmission in finite differences (4/4)
26: Current-voltage relation from transmission (4/6)
27: Dirac "bra-ket" notation (4/9)
28: 3D Infinite quantum well (4/11)
29: Finite differences in 3D (4/13)
30: 3D Harmonic Oscillator, broken degeneracy (4/16)
31: Wave equation on a spherical surface (4/18)
32: Spherical harmonics (4/20)
33: Radial equation (4/25)
34: Spherical infinite well (4/27)
35: Hydrogen I (4/30)
36: Hydrogen II (5/2)
37: Hydrogen III: degeneracy (5/4)
38: Selection rules and anomalous Zeeman effect (5/7)
39: Larmor precession and Lande g-factor (5/9)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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