Welcome to the website for Physics 9HE--

Honors Modern Physics

Winter, 2008

Chuck Fadley, Physics/Geology 241, fadley@physics.ucdavis.edu

Konstantin Chudnovskiy, Physics/Geology, kchudnovskiy@student.physics.ucdavis.edu

9HE Laboratory: Randy Harris in charge-- Website: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Classes/9HELabHandouts/

einsteinonbicycle.jpe

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tour--Saturday, March 1st

--Syllabus, Reading and Problem Assignments:

Syllabus and First Reading and Problem Assignments

All Reading and Problem Assignments

Supplementary Reading on Fourier Integrals

Supplementary Reading on Time-Dependent Q.M. and Selection Rules

Supplementary Reading on Many-Particle Wave Functions and Exchange Symmetry

--Slides Used in Lecture:

Lecture Slide Set 1--General Review, Special Relativity, Doppler Effect

Lecture Slide Set 2-General Relativity

Lecture Slide Set 3-Waves and Fourier Analysis

Lecture Slide Set 4-Q.M. Postulates and 1D Problems

Lecture Slide Set 5-The Atom, Periodic Table, Selection Rules

Lecture Slide Set 6-Molecules, The Laser, Solids, Devices

Lecture Slide Set 7-Nuclei, Particles

--Current Year's Exams and Answers:

Quiz No. 1

Midterm Exam

Quiz No. 2

Final Examination--New, 3/23/06

--Answers to Assigned Problems:

Chapter 2 (more problems than those assigned)

Chapter 15

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Answers to Special Problems-Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapters 9-10

Answers to Special Problems-Chapters 7-10

Chapter 11

Chapters 12

Chapter 14

 

--Sample Final Exam from Prior Course:

Sample Final Exam (coverage slightly different)

--Study Guides to Major Subjects for Final Exam:

Study Guide for Final Exam

Actual Constants and Equations for Final Exam

--Final Grade Summary:

Final Grade Summary----New, 3/23/06