PHYS 226 - QUANTUM PHYSICS |
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Semester: | Spring 2009 | |||
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Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
Office Hours: | Tuesdays | 15:40 - 16:30 catch me after class | Room SA-228 | |
All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
Assistant: | Ahmet Keles | Office: SA-205 | ||
Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
First Exam | 25% | March 19 | 15:40 - 17:30 | |
Second Exam | 25% | April 16 | 15:40 - 17:30 | |
Final Exam | 35% | May 26 | 15:30 SB-Z03 | |
Homework | 15% | |||
Course Schedule: | ||||
Tuesdays | 13:40 - 15:30 | Room SB-Z03 | ||
Thursdays | 15:40 - 17:30 | Room SB-Z03 | ||
Textbook: | ||||
Alternate text: | Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by A. C. Phillips
Modern Physics by R. A. Serway, C. J. Moses, and C. A. Moyer |
Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Homework is due on the Tuesday of the following week at 13:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Stars system. You are also encouraged to discuss course related matters in the "forum" activity of Moodle pages for this course.
Week | Subject | Exam | Introduction (Planck, De Broglie, Bohr, Einstein) Mathematics of waves (Fourier) Schrödinger Equation Probability, expectation values, operators, and uncertainty (Heisenberg) Stationary solutions, energy states Review and exam#1 One dimensional problems: The square well One dimensional problems: Scattering and tunneling One dimensional problem: The harmonic oscillator Review and exam | #2 Observables and operators (Dirac) (No class Thursday) Observables and operators Angular Momentum Identical particles and Spin (Fermi, Pauli) Identical particles and Spin (Thursday schedule on Monday) |
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Some applets:
The MIT version of this course:
Other interesting links:
Some relevant reading material from Bilkent Library: