PHYS401 QUANTUM PHYSICS I
- University of Maryland, College Park -
Spring 2011
Class: M 3-4:50PM, WF 3-3:50PM in PHYS 1402
TA: Simon Riquelme ( incertidumbre at gmail.com, 301 825 4632)
Office hour: 3:15PM Thurs in 4208
Homework | Links | Lectures | ||
| COMPLETE NOTES | ||||
| HW1 due 2/7 soln | GNU/octave for windows | 1: Intro and some history (1/24) | ||
| HW2 due 2/14 soln | online matlab interpreter | 2: ODEs (1/28) | ||
| HW3 due 2/21 soln | PHYS401 MATLAB guide | 3: PDEs and Fourier Transforms (1/31) | ||
| HW4 due 2/28 soln | FFT lab | 4: Gaussian and the "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" (2/4) | ||
| HW5 due 3/7 soln | photon interference | 5: Differential eigenvalue problem and finite differences (2/7) | ||
| HW6 due 3/14 soln | Electron interference (physicsworld) | 6: Matrix eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Hermitian conjugate (2/9) | ||
| HW7 due 3/28 soln | electron interference (AVI movie) | 7: Matter Wave Interference and the Schrödinger Equation (2/11) | ||
| HW8 due 4/4 soln | Exam 1 (2/14) | |||
| HW9 due 4/11 soln | 8: Free particle Wavefunction: plane wave and time evolution (2/16) | |||
| HW10 due 4/18 soln | 9: Observables and uncertainty (2/18) | |||
| HW11 due 4/25 soln | 10: Time-Independent Schrödinger Eqn and particle in a box (2/21) | |||
| HW12 due 5/2 soln | 11: Finite quantum well, boundary conditions, and finite differences (2/23) | |||
| HW13 due 5/9 soln | 12: Double QW and attractive delta potential (2/25) | |||
| 13: Periodic potential and bandstructure (2/28) | ||||
| BONUS: Bandstructure example: finite differences (2/28) | ||||
| 14: Harmonic Oscillator: Ladder operators (3/2) | ||||
| 15: Harmonic Oscillator: Raising from the ground state; Numerical results (3/4) | ||||
| 16: Harmonic Oscillator: Uncertainty and Correspondence principle (3/7) | ||||
| 17: Harmonic Oscillator: "Brute Force" and Hermite Polynomials (3/9) | ||||
| 18: Scattering: Transmission and Reflection Coefs (3/11) | ||||
| Exam 2 (3/14) | ||||
| 19: Scattering from delta potential and multiple interfaces (3/16) | ||||
| 20: Transfer matrix method (3/18) | ||||
| 21: Tunneling, Resonance, and emergence of bands (3/28) | ||||
| 22: Transmission Calculation in Finite Differences I (3/30) | ||||
| 23: Transmission Calculation in Finite Differences II (4/1) | ||||
| 24: Current-Voltage Relations (4/4) | ||||
| 25: I-V in 2D (4/6) | ||||
| 26: Hilbert space and Dirac notation (4/8) | ||||
| 27: 3D Cartesian coords (infinite cubical well) (4/11) | ||||
| 28: 3D finite differences (4/13) | ||||
| 29: Broken Symmetry, Kronecker product, and 3D Harmonic Oscillator (4/15) | ||||
| EXAM 3 (4/18) | ||||
| 30: Classical wave equation beyond 1 dimension (4/20) | ||||
| 31: Waves on the surface of a sphere (4/22) | ||||
| 32: Quantum mechanics in spherically-symmetric potentials (4/25) | ||||
| 33: Infinite spherical well (4/27) | ||||
| 34: Classical and Semiclassical Bohr model (4/29) | ||||
| 35: Hydrogen atom radial equation (5/2) | ||||
| 36: Angular momentum z-component operator and Zeeman effect (5/4) | ||||
| FINAL EXAM (5/9) | ||||
University of Maryland, College Park | College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Dept. of Physics | Appelbaum Lab
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