Welcome to the
PHY237
Homepage for
the Spring of 2015
Lectures
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30 – 1:45
Dewey 2110D
Teaching
Team:
Nicholas
Bigelow
B&L
312
275
8549
Justin
Tian
Jonathan
Curtis
Jamie
Maslek
THE FINAL EXAM
IS SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY MAY 6 AT 7:15 p.m. IN DEWEY 2110D
THE EQUATION
SHEET POSTED FOR QUIZ 2 WILL BE PROVIDED
The summary of
topics included in the final exam, as passed out in class, is here.
Textbook:
Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids and Nuclei by
Eisberg and Resnick,
second edition
The
best time to see me (Nick Bigelow) is between 2 and 4 Tuesday afternoons.
If
you e-mail me I can usually set up a meeting within 24 hours, often less.
Workshops/Recitations
are held weekly. Many items covered
in the
Workshop
sessions will be placed here. The three sections are:
Mondays
starting at 4:50 p.m. in B&L 269
(with J. Curtis)
Wednesdays
starting at 2:00 p.m. in Hylan 203 (with J. Tian)
Wednesdays
starting at 4:50 p.m. in Hylan 203 (with J. Maslek)
Homework
is assigned (approximately) weekly, in class, on Thursday.
The
homework is then due one week later, in-class. Homework that arrives late
will be penalized 10% per day and we cannot guarantee that we
will
grade homework that is turned in more than three days late. If there are
extenuating circumstances, please contact the
teaching team member who
is in charge of your workshop section. The list of all assignments to date
can be found here. Homework solutions can be found here.
Notes
that Nick Bigelow brings to class will periodically be scanned and
placed here. These are pdf
files. Please note that these are
intended as his
lecture-guide notes and are not intended to be
pedagogical!
Supplemental
materials of various kinds will be placed here. Right now these
Are
references on the simple harmonic oscillator operator treatment.
There
will several in-class exams during the semester and a final.
The
overall course grade is determined from homework, exams and the final,
in approximately equal weighting. The equation sheet for quiz 1 will
be found here.
The
first quiz will take place in-class on Thursday 26 February 2015. You will be
given one hour. It
will be closed book, closed notes.
It will cover ONLY the
solutions of the one-dimensional Schrdinger
equation – essentially Chapter 6 of E&R.
The
second quiz will be on Thursday April 9th and will cover material
through
chapter 7 E&R and the hydrogen atom, but
not spin-orbit interactions.
Here
are the solutions to quiz #2.
A
comprehensive equation sheet that you will be given can be found here.
You
may not need all of the equations.