MWF 1-1:50 PM | OPL 103 | http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s20phy742/ |
Instructor: Natalie Holzwarth | Phone:758-5510 | Office:300 OPL | e-mail:natalie@wfu.edu |
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1 | Mon: 01/13/2020 | Chap. 9 | Quantum mechanics of electromagnetic forces | #1 | 01/22/2020 |
2 | Wed: 01/15/2020 | Chap. 9 | Quantum mechanics of particle in electrostatic field | #2 | 01/24/2020 |
3 | Fri: 01/17/2020 | Chap. 9 | Quantum mechanics of particle in magnetostatic field | #3 | 01/27/2020 |
Mon: 01/20/2020 | No class | Martin Luther King Holiday | |||
4 | Wed: 01/22/2020 | Chap. 14 | Scattering theory | #4 | 01/29/2020 |
5 | Fri: 01/24/2020 | Chap. 14 | Scattering theory | #5 | 01/31/2020 | 6 | Mon: 01/27/2020 | Chap. 14 | Scattering theory | #6 | 02/03/2020 |
7 | Wed: 01/29/2020 | Chap. 12 | Variational methods | #7 | 02/05/2020 |
8 | Fri: 01/31/2020 | Chap. 12 | Variational and other approximation methods | #8 | 02/07/2020 | 9 | Mon: 02/03/2020 | Chap. 2,6 | Single particle states of molecules and solids | #9 | 02/10/2020 |
10 | Wed: 02/05/2020 | Chap. 2,6 | H2+ molecular ion; Born Oppenheimer approximation | #10 | 02/12/2020 |
11 | Fri: 02/07/2020 | Chap. 15 | Time-dependent perturbations | #11 | 02/14/2020 | 12 | Mon: 02/10/2020 | Chap. 15 | Time-dependent perturbations | #12 | 02/14/2020 |
13 | Wed: 02/12/2020 | Chap. 15 | Time-dependent perturbations | #13 | 02/17/2020 |
14 | Fri: 02/14/2020 | Chap. 16 | The Dirac equation | 15 | Mon: 02/17/2020 | Chap. 16 | The Dirac equation | #14 | 02/19/2020 |
16 | Wed: 02/19/2020 | Chap. 16 | The Dirac equation | #15 | 02/21/2020 |
17 | Fri: 02/21/2020 | Chap. 16 | The Dirac equation | #16 | 02/24/2020 | 18 | Mon: 02/24/2020 | Chap. 11C | Path integral formalism |
19 | Wed: 02/26/2020 | Chap. 11C | Path integral formalism | ||
20 | Fri: 02/28/2020 | Review | Mon: 03/02/2020 | No class | APS March Meeting | Take Home Exam |
Wed: 03/04/2020 | No class | APS March Meeting | Take Home Exam | ||
Fri: 03/06/2020 | No class | APS March Meeting | Take Home Exam | Mon: 03/09/2020 | No class | Spring Break |
Wed: 03/11/2020 | No class | Spring Break | |||
Fri: 03/13/2020 | No class | Spring Break | Mon: 03/16/2020 | No class | Classes Cancelled |
Wed: 03/18/2020 | No class | Classes Cancelled | |||
Fri: 03/20/2020 | No class | Classes Cancelled | 21 | Mon: 03/23/2020 | Chap. 17 | Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field | #17 | 03/25/2020 |
22 | Wed: 03/25/2020 | Chap. 17 | Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field | #18 | 03/27/2020 |
23 | Fri: 03/27/2020 | Chap. 17 | Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field | #19 | 03/30/2020 | 24 | Mon: 03/30/2020 | Chap. 18 | Photons and atoms |
25 | Wed: 04/01/2020 | Chap. 10 | Multiparticle systems | #20 | 04/03/2020 |
26 | Fri: 04/03/2020 | Chap. 10 | Multiparticle systems | #21 | 04/06/2020 | 27 | Mon: 04/06/2020 | Chap. 10 | Multielectron atoms | #22 | 04/08/2020 |
28 | Wed: 04/08/2020 | Chap. 10 | Multielectron atoms | ||
Fri: 04/10/2020 | No class | Good Friday | |||
29 | Mon: 04/13/2020 | Chap. 10 | Multielectron atoms | #23 | 04/15/2020 |
30 | Wed: 04/15/2020 | Hartree-Fock and other formalisms | #24 | 04/17/2020 | |
31 | Fri: 04/17/2020 | Density functional theory | 32 | Mon: 04/20/2020 | Density functional theory for atoms |
33 | Wed: 04/22/2020 | Practial density functional theory | |||
34 | Fri: 04/24/2020 | Brief discussion of BCS theory of superconductivity | |||
35 | Mon: 04/27/2020 | Review | |||
36 | Wed: 04/29/2020 | Review |
Read Chapter 9 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 9 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 9 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Start reading Chapter 14 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 14 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 14 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Start reading Chapter 12 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 12 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Review the material in Chapters 2 and 6 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Review the material in Chapters 2 and 6 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Start reading Chapters 15 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapters 15 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 16 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 16 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 16 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Read Chapters 5 and 17 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
In the following CQM refers to the textbook.
Read Chapter 17 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Finish reading Chapter 17 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Start reading Chapter 10 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Continue reading Chapter 10 in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
Read Chapter 10.F in Professor Carlson's QM textbook..
The material for this homework follows Lecture 28
The material for this homework follows Lecture 30
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