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Week Nineteen - Strategy
Finis! Closing thoughts and some exam strategies from Georg Polya. Music: “Operator” by the Grateful Dead and “Lobachevsky (Plagerize!)” by Tom Lehrer.
Week Eighteen - Scattering
Kinematics, impact parameter, differential and total cross section, scattering of electromagnetic waves, 1 dimensional quantum mechanical scattering, Born approximation and optical theorem. Music: “Alphabet Street” by Prince, “American Pie” by Don McLean.
Week Seventeen - Two state systems
This week: two state qunatum mechanical systems. Spin 1/2 and rotations, time independent perturbations, time dependent perturbations leading to emission and absorption, NMR and MASERS. Music: “Summer Wind” by Lyle Lovett, “Frank’s Wild Years” by Tom Waits and “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Week Sixteen - The Hydrogen Atom
Quantum mehanical hydorgen atom: Bohr model, unperturbed Schrodinger model, Stark, relativistic, fine and Zeeman perturbations, interaction with radiation field and hyperfine transitions. Music: “Sister Christian” by Night Ranger and “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen.
Week Fifteen - Quantum Mechanics (Basics)
The basic ideas of quatnum mechanics: de Broglie waves, Stern-Gerlac experiment, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, operators, bra, kets and wave mechanics. Music: “Kite Flying Society” by Mark Mothersbaugh and “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison.
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