Physics 15400 Section: 0 - Modern Physics
Instructor: Cheng Chin
Email: cchin @ uchicago.edu
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11:30am ~ 12:20pm
Location: KPTC 120
Discussion session: Tuesday 4:30 ~ 5:20 pm
Teaching assistants:
Dan Wulin <dwulin @ uchicago.edu>
Paul Spyridis <spyridis @ uchicago.edu>
Ran Huo <huor @ uchicago.edu>
Pongsakorn Kanjanaboos <pkanjano @ uchicago.edu>
Heng Liu <liuh @ uchicago.edu>
Office Hours:
Heng Liu: Monday 3 ~4 pm @ KPTC 303
Ran Huo: Monday 4:30~5:30 pm @ KPTC 303
Cheng Chin: Tuesday 11~12:30 pm and Wednesday 2:30~3:30 pm @ GCIS 107
Paul Spyridis: Wednesday 3:30~4:30 pm @ KPTC 303
Dan Wulin: Thursday 10~11:30 am @ KPTC 303
Pongsakorn Kanjanaboos: Friday 1~2 pm @ KPTC 303
Textbooks:
Quantum Physics
Author: R. Eisberg and R. Resnick
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0 471 87373
Recommended Textbook
Class Outline:
| Wk | Lecture | Date | Topic | Eisberg chapter/page |
Home- work |
TA mtg | Handout |
| 1 | 1 | 9/29 | Introduction: Conceptual Challenges in Mondern Physics | One | |||
| 2 | 10/1 | Quantization of Light (I) | pp. 27-34 | Two | |||
| 3 | 10/3 | Quantization of Light (II) | pp. 34-43 | #1 | #1 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 10/6 | Particle-Wave Duality (I) | pp. 56-65 | Three | ||
| 5 | 10/8 | Math (I): Fourier transform | |||||
| 6 | 10/10 | Particle-Wave Duality (II) | pp. 65-79 pp. 134-150 |
#1 due #2 |
#2 | ||
| 3 | 7 | 10/13 | Particle-Wave Duality (III) | pp. 96-105 | |||
| 8 | 10/15 | Particle-Wave Duality (IV) | pp. 110-114 | ||||
| 9 | 10/17 | Math (III): Complex Number and Differential Equations | #2 due #3 |
#3 | Four | ||
| 4 | 10 | 10/20 | Schrodinger's Equation | pp.150-155 | |||
| 11 | 10/22 | Free and Confined Particles (I) | pp. 177-184 | ||||
| 12 | 10/24 | Free and Confined Particles (II) | pp.184-199 | #3 due #4 |
#4 | ||
| 5 | 10/27 | Midterm Exam I (Lec. 1~9) | |||||
| 13 | 10/29 | Math (III): Partial Differential Equations | pp. 150-155 | Five | |||
| 14 | 10/31 | Free and Confined Particles (III) | pp. 199-209 | #4 due #5 |
#5 | ||
| 6 | 15 | 11/3 | Free and Confined Particles (IV) | pp. 214-221 | |||
| 16 | 11/5 | Math (IV): State vectors in Hilbert Space, linear Algebra and Dirac's Bra-Ket Notation | FiveA | ||||
| 17 | 11/7 | Free and Confined Paritcles (V) | #5 due #6 |
FiveB | |||
| 7 | 18 | 11/10 | Quantum Measurements | Six | |||
| 19 | 11/12 | Quantum Paradoxes | |||||
| 11/14 | Student presentation (I) | #6 due #7 #7corr. |
#6 | ||||
| 8 | 11/17 | Midterm Exam II (Lec. 10~17) | |||||
| 20 | 11/19 | Identical Particles | pp.376~380 | Seven |
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| 21 | 11/21 | Quantum Statistics | #7 due #8 |
#7 | |||
| 9 | 11/24 | Student presentation (II) | |||||
| 22 | 11/26 | Selected topic (I) Introduction to Superfluidity and Superconductivity |
PPT | ||||
| 11/28 | Thanksgiving | ||||||
| 10 | 23 | 12/1 | Selected topic (II) Introduction to Path Integral |
#8 due | #8 | ||
| 12/2 | Review session: 4:30~5:20pm | ||||||
| 11 | 12/8 | Final Exam 10:30 am~12:30 pm @ KPTC 120 |
Evaluation
Lab 20%
Problem sets 25%
Midterms 2 x15%
Final 25%
Extra Credit 1:
Presentation 5%: 10 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A (Please contact Dan Wulin and Paul Spyridis)
Time slots: (11/14) 11:30~11:45 am, 11:45~12 pm, 12~12:15 pm, 12:15~12:30 pm
(11/24) 11:30~11:45 am, 11:45~12 pm, 12~12:15 pm, 12:15~12:30 pm
Extra Credit 2:
Identify PHYSICS mistakes in the textbook: 1% each (up to 5 %).