Welcome to the website
for Physics 9HE--
Honors Modern Physics
Winter, 2012
Lecture: Chuck Fadley, Physics/Geology 241, fadley@physics.ucdavis.edu
Discussion: Alexander Saw, Physics/Geology 221 aysaw@ucdavis.edu
9HE Laboratory: Randy Harris in charge-- Website: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Classes/9HELabHandouts/
Tour of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
--Supplementary Reading:
Reading on Fourier series and integrals
Reading on time-dependent quantum mechanics and selection rules
Reading on wave functions for identical particles-antisymmetry and exchange
--Slides Used in Lecture:
Slide Set 1: Origins of QM, Special Relativity
Slide Set 2: General Relativity
Slide Set 3: Waves, Particles, Fourier Analysis
Slide Set 4: Quantum Mechanics: Postulates, 1D Problems-->3D Problems-->3D, Tunneling
Slide Set 6: Molecules, the Laser, Solids, the Transistor etc
Slide Set 7: Nuclei, Particles, the Future
--Answers to Assigned Problems: in order covered in lecture
Chapter 3 (with some extra not assigned)
--Current Year's Exams and Answers:
--Prior Years Sample Exams:
Sample final, including miscellaneous constants and equations
Study guide for the final exam