PHY 3063 Lecture Notes

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Tuesday January 9, 2007:

PHY 3063 Spring 2007
Chapter 1: The Scope of PHY3063
Chapter 1: Euclidean Geometry in Empty Space
Chapter 1: Galilean Transformation
Chapter 1: Postulates of Classical Physics
Chapter 1: Conservation of Linear Momentum (Classical)
Chapter 1: Postulates of Special Relativity
Chapter 1: Lorentz Transformation (derivation)
Chapter 1: Lorentz Transformation

Thursday January 11, 2007:

Chapter 1: 4-Vector Notation
Chapter 1: Analogy with Rotations
Chapter 1: Space-Time Intervals
Chapter 1: Moving Clocks & Simultaneity
Chapter 1: Moving Lengths
Chapter 1: Space-Time Transformations - Example

Tuesday January 16, 2007:

Chapter 1: Velocity Transformations
Chapter 1: Electromagnetic Plane Waves
Chapter 1: Relativistic Doppler Shift (observer moving away)
Chapter 1: Relativistic Doppler Shift (source moving away)
Chapter 1: Relativistic Doppler Shift (general case)
Chapter 1: Series Expansions and Approximations

All of Chapter 1 (20 pages)

Tuesday January 23, 2007:

Chapter 2: Relativistic Energy and Momentum (Summary)
Chapter 2: Relativistic Kinetic Energy (derivation)
Chapter 2: Particles with Zero Rest Mass (Photons)
Chapter 2: Relativistic Energy and Momentum
Chapter 2: Photon Energy and Momentum Transformations
Chapter 2: Force Transformations

Thursday January 25, 2007:

Chapter 2: Units: Mass, Energy, Momentum
Chapter 2: The Lifetime of Unstable Particles
Chapter 2: Center of Mass – Threshold Energy
Chapter 2: Converting Energy to Mass
Chapter 2: Converting Mass to Energy

Tuesday January 30, 2007:

Chapter 2: Equivalence of Inertial and Gravitational Mass
Chapter 2: General Theory of Relativity
Chapter 2: Gravity and Light (1)
Chapter 2: Gravity and Light (2)
Chapter 2: Photons and Gravity
Chapter 2: Time and Gravity
Chapter 2: Black Holes
Chapter 2: The Deflection of Light by Gravity

All of Chapter 2 (19 pages)

Tuesday February 6, 2007:

Chapter 3: In Search of a Missing Fundamental Constant
Chapter 3: Some Important Constants (in 1900)
Chapter 3: Temperature and Boltzmann’s Constant
Chapter 3: Accelerated Charges
Chapter 3: Emission and Absorption from a Surface
Chapter 3: Black-Body Radiation (1)
Chapter 3: Black-Body Radiation (2)
Chapter 3: Black-Body Action

Thursday February 8, 2007:

Chapter 3: Rayleigh-Jeans Theory: Number of Modes
Chapter 3: E&M Modes in a Conducting Cavity
Chapter 3: Maxwell-Boltzman Probability Distribution (1)
Chapter 3: Maxwell-Boltzman Probability Distribution (2)
Chapter 3: The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
Chapter 3: Planck’s Theory (1)
Chapter 3: Planck’s Theory (2)
Chapter 3: Planck’s Theory (3)
Chapter 3: Planck’s Theory (4)

Tuesday February 13, 2007:

Chapter 3: The Photoelectric Effect (1)
Chapter 3: The Photoelectric Effect (2)
Chapter 3: Compton Scattering(1)
Chapter 3: Compton Scattering (2)
Chapter 4: The Size and Lifetime of Atoms
Chapter 4: Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom (1)
Chapter 4: Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom (2)
Chapter 4: Bohr’s Model of the One Electron Atom

All of Chapter 3 (21 pages)

Thursday February 15, 2007:

Chapter 5: De Broglie’s Pilot Waves
Chapter 5: Wave Superposition and Wave Packets
Chapter 5: Wave Illustrations
Chapter 5: Representing Waves as Complex Numbers
Chapter 5: The Complex Plane
Chapter 5: Double Slit Interference
Chapter 5: Double Slit Intensity Pattern
Chapter 5: The Davidson-Germer Experiment
Chapter 5: Inescapable Consequence of Wave Packets
Chapter 5: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

All of Chapter 4 (4 pages)

Tuesday February 20, 2007:

Chapter 5: Virtual Particles
Chapter 5: QED and the Quantum Vacuum
Chapter 6: How Do We Interpret Pilot Waves?
Chapter 6: General Principles: Probability Amplitudes
Chapter 6: Expectation Values and Differential Operators (1)
Chapter 6: Expectation Values and Differential Operators (2)
Chapter 6: Schrödinger’s Equation
Chapter 6: Probability Flux

All of Chapter 5 (11 pages)

Thursday February 22, 2007:

Tuesday March 6, 2007:

Chapter 6: Hermitian Operators
Chapter 6: Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
Chapter 6: Commutator and AntiCommutator
Chapter 6: Dirac "Bracket" Notation (1)
Chapter 6: Dirac "Bracket" Notation (2)

Tuesday March 20, 2007:

Chapter 6: Theory of Stationary States (1)
Chapter 6: Theory of Stationary States (2)
Chapter 6: The Hamiltonian and Constants of the Motion
Chapter 6: Operators Relations (1)
Chapter 6: Operators Relations (2)

Thursday March 22, 2007:

Chapter 6: The Parity Operator
Chapter 6: Symmetries and Conserved Quantities
Chapter 6: Displacement Operators
Chapter 6: Eigenstates and the Uncertainty Principle
Chapter 6: Uncertainty Principle Examples

Tuesday March 27, 2007:

Thursday March 29, 2007:

Chapter 6: Barrier Problems - Finite Step Potential
Chapter 6: Finite Step Potential (V₀ > E)
Chapter 6: Infinite Step Potential
Chapter 6: Finite Step Potential (V₀ < E)
Chapter 6: Quantum Mechanical Tunneling (1)
Chapter 6: Quantum Mechanical Tunneling (2)
Chapter 6: Quantum Mechanical Tunneling (3)

All of Chapter 6 (38 pages)

Tuesday April 3, 2007:

Chapter 7: Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
Chapter 7: The Angular Momentum Operator (1)
Chapter 7: The Angular Momentum Operator (2)
Chapter 7: Lie Algebra – Generalized Angular Momentum
Chapter 7: The Spectrum of States

Thursday April 5, 2007:

Chapter 7: Addition of Angular Momentum (1)
Chapter 7: Addition of Angular Momentum (2)
Chapter 7: The Fundamental Representation of SU(2)
Chapter 7: Special Unitary 2×2 Matrices
Chapter 7: The Pauli Matrices
Chapter 7: Spin ½ Angular Momentum

Tuesday April 10, 2007:

Thursday April 12, 2007:

Chapter 7: Exchange Forces (1)
Chapter 7: Exchange Forces (2)

All of Chapter 7 (17 pages)

Rick Field - January 1, 2007