Welcome to the website for Physics 9HE--

Honors Modern Physics

Winter, 2009

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

N. Robert Hayre , Physics/Geology 434, nhayre@physics.ucdavis.edu

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

 

Final Examination Question/Review Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday,

March 17 and 18, Room P/G 416, 7:00-8:30 PM

FINAL EXAMINATION: Thursday, March 19, Room P/G 140, 1:00-3:00 PM

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tour--March 7th

--Syllabus, Reading and Problem Assignments:

Syllabus and First Reading and Problem Assignments

Reading and Problem Assignments to End of Quarter

--Supplementary Reading:

Fourier Series and Integrals

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--Review, Special Relativity, Doppler Effect

Lecture Slide Set 2--General Relativity

Lecture Slide Set 3--Waves and Fourier Analysis

Lecture Slide Set 4--QM Postulates and 1D Systems/Tunneling

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

--Past Exams and Answers:

First Quiz from Prior Course

Midterm from Prior Course

Second Quiz from Prior Course

Final Exam from Prior Course

--Answers to Assigned Problems:

Chapter 2 (more problems than those assigned)

Chapter 3 (more problems than those assigned)

Chapter 15

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Special Problems in Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapters 9-10

Answers to Special Problems-Chapters 7-10

Chapter 11

Chapter 4

Chapters 12

Chapter 14

 

--Current Year's Exams and Answers:

First Quiz-This Course

Midterm-This Course

Second Quiz -This Course

New--Final Exam -This Course

--Final Exam Study Guide:

New--Final Grades