Welcome to Physics 4E, Quantum Physics, Spring 2017

Announcements

Final solution for prob. 5 was corrected
Final grade histogram is posted
Final solutions are posted
Quiz 4 solutions are posted
Homework for week 10 is posted.
Quiz 4 is Monday June 5, 4pm, MYR-A 2623. Please bring a new blue book, a calculator, a pen (not pencil) and (at most) 1 page of formulas, single sided. The quiz will cover Chpt. 7 and Chpt. 8 excluding Sects. 8.3 and 8.5. Also included is the first part of Sect. 9.4 of Chpt. 9, that was discussed in class.
Change of due date: graded problem assignment 9 is due 6/8 instead of 6/5.
Homework for week 9 is posted.
Supplementary reading on magnetic moment and Zeeman effect
Homework for week 8 is posted.
Quiz 3 solutions are posted
Homework for week 7 is posted.
Quiz 3 is Monday May 15, 4pm, MYR-A 2623. Please bring a new blue book, a calculator, a pen (not pencil) and (at most) 1 page of formulas, single sided. The quiz will cover the rest of Chpt. 5 and all of Chpt. 6
Supplementary reading on transitions between energy states
Homework for week 6 is posted.
Supplementary reading on finite square well
Quiz 2 solutions of 2017 are posted
Quiz 2 is Monday May 1, 4pm, MYR-A 2623. Please bring a new blue book, a calculator, a pen (not pencil) and (at most) 1 page of formulas, single sided. The quiz will cover Chpt. 4 (2 questions) and Chpt. 5 (1 question) except for Sects. 5.4 and 5.7 of the text.
Supplementary reading on two-slit interference
Supplementary reading on Rutherford scattering and derivation of b(theta).
Homework for week 4 is posted.
Supplementary reading: Critique of Bohr theory
Homework for week 3 is posted.
Quiz 1 is Monday April 17, 4pm, MYR-A 2623. Please bring a blue book, a calculator, a pen (not pencil) and (at most) 1 page of formulas, single sided.
Derivation of Compton equation,
Homework for week 2 is posted.
Note: on Thu April 6 only, lecture and problem session will be in Mayer 4322 rather than in MYR-A 2623.
First lecture is Monday April 3, 4pm, MYR-A 2623.
First graded homework problem is due Monday April 10, 4pm, MYR-A 2623.
First quiz is Monday April 17, 4pm, MYR-A 2623.
Topics for week 1: Tipler Chpt. 8-1, Classical statistics, up to (not including) Heat capacities... and Tipler Chpt. 3-2, blackbody radiation
Supplementary reading for week 1: distributions, kinetic theory, Boltzmann, equipartition, modes of oscillation
Homework for week 1 is posted, see link "Homework assignments and solutions" below
Please read the "Students' Responsibilities" section on page 1 of the UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship, here is a pdf

Please include 4E or 4e in the subject line when you send email about the course

Course Materials:

Course Schedule
Books on reserve at the library
Homework assignments and solutions
Quiz and final solutions
Quiz and final grades
Web links

Course Information:

Lectures: M, 4-4:50pm, MYR-A 2623; Tu, Th 12:30-1:50pm, MYR-A 2623 (except Th April 6 in Mayer 4322)
Quizzes: some Mondays (see Course Schedule), 4-4:50pm, MYR-A 2623. Attendance required.
Discussion: W 4-4:50pm, MYR-A 2623
Problems: Th 5-6:50 pm, MYR-A 2623
Final exam: Monday June 12, 11:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m., MYR-A 2623
Course Text: Tipler and Llewellyn, Modern Physics, 6th Edition
Text website: http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/product/modernphysics-sixthedition-tipler
Course Description: See General Catalog

Instructor and TA Information -

Instructor: Jorge Hirsch, 5310 Mayer Hall, Ext. 4-3931, e-mail: [email protected]
                     Office Hour: Fr 2-3 pm, MH 5310 or M 11-12 by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Daniel Ben-Zion, [email protected]
                                     Office Hour: M 2-3 pm, 5202 Mayer Hall or by appointment

Grader: Chang-Chun Chen, [email protected]
                                     Office Hour: W 3-4 pm, SERF 438

Course Format

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: Problems from the book will be assigned every week, solutions will be posted on the web page. To fully understand the material, you should work most of the problems on your own without help of the solution key. These homeworks will not be graded.
GRADED HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: One more challenging problem will be assigned every week, which will be graded. There will be a total of 9 such assignments, to be handed in at the beginning of every Monday lecture (or quiz) starting the second Monday. This will count for 10% of the grade.
QUIZZES: Quizzes will be given on alternate Mondays (four quizzes), the first one on April 17th, see Course Schedule. There will be lectures on the other Mondays. There will be no make-up quizzes.
FINAL EXAM: There will be an in-class final exam on finals week.
COURSE GRADE: The four quizzes will count for 40% of the course grade (10% each), the graded homework assigmentms will count 10%, and the final exam will count for 50% of the course grade.
Grading scale (approximate): A: >80 %, B: >60%, C: >40%, D: >30%.

General Information

For extra help, try the Physics Department Evening Tutorial Center
Students with Disabilities
UCSD Physics Courses Homepage
Physics Department Web page
TritonLink - UCSD student website.
Web links
UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship (pdf) (for more information go to this web site)