Mon 15:40- 17:30 P1 & Wed 15:40-17:30 P3
(*) All lectures and exams will be face-to-face.
AB ▸ Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003
See METU Rules and Regulations Governing Undergraduate Studies
In-class assignments 30%, Midterm 30%, Final Exam 40% (Total 100). Letter grades will be given as follows
AA (90), BA (85), BB (80), CB (75), CC(70), DC (65), DD(60), FD(50), FF (0)
as stated in METU Rules and Regulations Governing Undergraduate Studies: ARTICLE 24.
All exams are closed book but you are allowed to have one A4 size page handwritten cheat sheet, which you must write yourselves.
In problem solutions: (1) Show genuine interest and effort. (2) Keep your work clean, well organized, and concise. (3) Demonstrate your understanding of the main goal. No credit is allocated for "correct solution", or "right answer."
Class attendance and participation is an individual student responsibility as stated in METU Rules and Regulations Governing Undergraduate Studies: ARTICLE 23 . In case of abuse, I will make full attendance mandatory for minimum passing letter grade.
By registration, you are assumed to accept the code of ethics & core values of METU and commit to maintain academic honesty and integrity for this course.
Any form of academic misconduct, including cheating in homework and exams, is prohibited. Looking for solutions on the internet is strongly disapproved, even if you "understand the solution first and then write it down." You cannot learn anything by looking at the read-made solutions. If you do your own work with honest effort, you will get full credit regardless of your solutions validity, see grading guidelines.
Relativity (Ch1) Lecture notes
Oct 2 Time dilation, length contraction, relativistic Doppler effect
Oct 9 Lorentz transformation, relativistic velocity addition, momentum and energy In-class assignment #1
Particles and waves (Ch 2, 3) Lecture notes
Oct 16 Electromagnetic waves, Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, X-rays
Oct 23 Compton scattering, de Broglie relation, matter waves, Heisenberg uncertainty In-class assignment #2
Atomic Structure (Ch 4) Lecture notes
Oct 30 Nucleus and electron orbits, Atomic spectra, Bohr model and correspondence principle In-class assignment #3
Quantum Mechanics (Ch 5) Lecture notes
Nov 6 Quantum mechanics, Schrodinger equation, operators and expectation values In-class assignment #4
Nov 13 Particle in a box, orthogonality, completeness, finite square well, tunneling, quantum harmonic oscillator In-class assignment #5
Quantum Theory of the Hydrogen Atom (Ch 6) Lecture notes
Nov 20 Schrodinger equation in 3D, separation of variables Midterm (Nov. 22 15:30-17:30 P3)
Nov 27 Hydrogen atom and quantum numbers, angular momentum, Zeeman effect In-class assignment #6
Many-Electron Atoms (Ch 7) Lecture notes
Dec 4 Selection rules, spin, exchange symmetry, Fermions and Bosons In-class assignment #7
Dec 11 Periodic table, atomic structure In-class assignment #8
Molecules (Ch 8) Lecture notes
Dec 18 Bonding, electron sharing, Hydrogen molecule, hybridization, rotations and vibrations In-class assignment #9
Statistical Mechanics (Ch. 9) Lecture notes
Dec 25 Maxwell-Boltzman distribution, equipartition theorem, quantum statistics, photon gas In-class assignment #10
Jan 01 Phonon gas, specific heat, Fermi-Dirac distribution and electron gas In-class assignment #11
Final Exam (Jan. 14 9:30-11:30 U3)
Makeup Exam (Jan 19 13:30-15:30 P350)
(**)The content outlined is subject to change depending on our pace in this semester.
Barton Zwiebach's Quantum Physics I lectures from MIT
Some lectures are a little more advanced than this course but most of them are easy to follow.