LECTURE SCHEDULE PHY491

FALL 2008

RM=Reading Material, GW=Group Work, HW= Homework, L=Lecture notes 

L

DATE

DAY

TOPICS

REMARKS

1

Aug 25

Mon

Syllabus, hydrogen atom, separation of center of mass and relative motion. (Griffiths ch. 4)

L1, RM1

2

Aug 27

Wed

Radial and angular wavefunctions, atomic units, hydrogenic systems,

L2, RM2, GW1 (due Sept. 10)

 

Sep 1

Mon

Labor Day

 

3

Sep 3

Wed

Spherical Harmonics, Spin-Orbit (Griffiths 6.3), Hyperfine coupling (Griffiths 6.5)

L3, RM3, HW1 (due Sept.17)

4

Sept 8

Mon

N-electron atoms, electronic configurations, variational  method (Griffiths Ch. 7)

L4, RM4

5

Sept 10

Wed

Hund’s rules, Magnetic Properties of Atoms and Solids (Ashcroft-Mermin Ch. 31 p. 644-659)

L5, GW2, (due Sept24), SOLGW1

6

Sept 15

Mon

Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism (Ashcroft-Mermin Ch. 31 p. 644-659)

L6

7

Sept 17

Wed

Born-Oppenheimer approximation (see RM5)

L7, HW2 (due Oct1) RM5, SOLHW1

8

Sept 22

Mon

Molecular Orbital theory, H­2+ and H2 molecules (RM5+RM6), Heitler-London approximation (Ashcroft-Mermin Ch. 32 672-679)

L8

9

Sept 24

Wed

Heisenberg Model for H2 (Ashcroft-Mermin Ch. 32 679-681), electronic configuration of diatomic molecules (RM6)

L9, GW3 (due Oct 8), SOLGW2, RM6

10

Oct 29

Mon

Review

MT107, SOLMT107

11

Oct 1

Wed

Midterm Exam I

MT1, SOLMT1, SOLHW2

12

Oct 6

Mon

Midterm Review, Bravais lattices, BCC, FCC

L10

13

Oct 8

Wed

Wigner-Seitz unit cell, Lattices with basis

L11, GW4 (due Oct 22), SOLGW3

14

Oct 13

Mon

Hexagonal lattice, HCP, Reciprocal Lattice

L12

15

Oct 15

Wed

First Brillouin Zone, X-Ray Scattering

L13, HW3

16

Oct 20

Mon

Ewald’s construction

L14

17

Oct 22

Wed

Structure factor for lattices with a basis

L15, GW5, SOLGW4

18

Oct 27

Mon

Bloch’s theorem

L16

19

Oct 29

Wed

Band folding, nearly free approximation

L17, HW4 (Due Nov 10!!), SOLHW3

20

Nov 3

Mon

Metals and Insulators, Density of states

L18

21

Nov 5

Wed

Tight binding model

L19, GW6, SOLGW5

22

Nov 10

Mon

Review

MT207, SOLMT207,

SOLHW4

23

Nov 12

Wed

Midterm Exam II

MT2, SOLMT2

24

Nov 17

Mon

Theory of Harmonic Crystal (Chapt.22), Acoustic and Optical modes of oscillation

L20

25

Nov 19

Wed

Phonons (Chapt.23)

L21, SOLGW6,HW5

26

Nov 24

Mon

Einstein and Debye models for the specific heat

L22

27

Nov 26

Wed

Homework in class

L23, HW6

28

Dec 1

Mon

Transport and Nanostructures

L24

29

Dec 3

Wed

Review (Kaijie Xu)

F07, SOLF07, SOLHW5

30

Dec 10

Wed

SPECIAL REVIEW SESSION 6pm-7pm Room 1308 (Final Practice)

SOLHW6,FP, SOLFP

 

Dec 11

Thu

(12:45pm-2:45pm) FINAL EXAM ROOM 1420

F,SOLF

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