| Week | Reading Due Date | Day of Week | Reading Assignment | Topic | Homework for the Week |
| 1 | 1/21 1/23 1/25 |
Mon Wed Fri |
MLK Day: no class none 6.1.1, 6.1.2 |
-- Course Introduction Time Independent 1st Order Perturbation Theory (PT) |
none |
| 2 | 1/28 1/30 2/1 |
Mon Wed Fri |
6.1.2 6.1.3 6.2 |
1st and 2nd order PT 2nd order PT; Stark Effect I Degenerate PT; Stark Effect II |
6.1 [10], 6.5 [(a) 10*, (b) 5] |
| 3 | 2/4 2/6 2/8 |
Mon Wed Fri |
6.3.1 6.3.2 6.4 |
Stark Effect II The Real H atom: Fine Structure (double lecture) The Zeeman Effect |
6.9 [20], 6.11 [10], 6.12 [10], 6.14 [15*] Note on 6.9(b): When asked to expand to 2nd order, for one energy, the answer is already a "power series" to 1st order, so no further expansion needed. |
| 4 | 2/11 2/13 2/15 |
Mon Wed Fri |
no class no class 2.5 |
Hyperfine Structure |
6.16 [10] You can make use of commutators from Ch. 4, 6.17 [10], 6.21 [10] label each line with the distinct quantum number for that level |
| 5 | 2/18 2/20 2/22 |
Mon Wed Fri |
no class 5.1 none |
Presidents' Day Multi-electronic Atoms (double lecture) Zeeman Effect Demo |
6.23 [15] Despite the **, this isn't hard, just a lot of arithmetic. I suggest you arrange
your results in a table. Where the question states (proportional to ...) read (in terms of ...), 5.1a,c (not b) [10], 5.2 [10], 5.4 [10] |
| 6 | 2/25 2/27 2/29 |
Mon Wed Fri |
5.2/exam review Exam #1 no class |
Ground & excited states of Helium |
none (but see HW for next friday) |
| 7 | 3/3 3/5 3/7 |
Mon Wed Fri |
finish 5.2 7.1 7.2 |
Ortho & Para Helium; Periodic Table Variational Principle Application to Helium |
5.6 [10], 5.12 [10], 5.13 [20] for part (a) he is asking you to compare orthohelium states (as a whole) to parahelium states, 7.1 [10], 7.3[10] |
| 8 | 3/10 3/12 3/14 |
Mon Wed Fri |
9.1.1, 9.1.2 9.1.3 9.2.1, 9.2.2 |
Time Dependent PT Sinusoidal Perturbations Emission and Absorption of Radiation |
9.1 [10], 9.4 [10], 9.5 [10] |
| 9 | 3/17 3/19 3/21 |
Mon Wed Fri |
9.2.3 9.3 9.3.3 |
Fermi's Golden Rule Einstein A & B coefficents; Selection Rules I Selection Rules II |
9.11 [10], 9.18 [10], 9.11 [5] |
| 10 | 3/24 3/26 3/28 |
Mon Wed Fri |
Spring Break no class this week |
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| 11 | 3/31 4/2 4/4 |
Mon Wed Fri |
none atom clock handout line shape handout |
Atomic Clocks I Atomic Clocks II Line shapes & widths; doppler cooling intro |
none |
| 12 | 4/7 4/9 4/11 |
Mon Wed Fri |
Science fair none none |
-- Doppler Cooling (double class) Light shifts; Sub-doppler cooling |
Homework #8 Handout Due Friday, Apr 18 |
| 13 | 4/14 4/16 4/18 |
Mon Wed Fri |
Exam #2 MOT trap handout none |
-- Magneto-Optical Traps Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Homework #9 Handout Due Friday, Apr 25 |
| 14 | 4/21 4/23 4/25 |
Mon Wed Fri |
11.1.1 11.1,11.2 |
Finish BEC/Intro to Scattering Classical & Quantum Scattering; Partial Waves |
11.2 [10], 11.6 [10], 11.10 [10], 11.13 [15] Due Friday, May 2 |
| 15 | 4/28 4/30 5/2 |
Mon Wed Fri |
11.3 11.4 11.4 |
Phase Shift Born Approximation I Born Approximation II |
Study for the Final! |