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LSN25_AdiabaticApprox.pdfLesson 25: Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (Adiabatic Approximation).
Read: pages 426-433.
Lesson Takeaway: When Adiabatic Approximation is valid and when it is not.
LSN23_BornApprox_CauchyInts.pdfLesson 23: The Born Approximation. Cauchy Integral Formula
Video of today's class is located in the Sharepoint directory accessible through the Files portion of MS Teams.
LSN22_OnLine_Discussion.pdfLesson 22: Scattering II: Partial Wave Analysis
Read: Pages 380-387
Focus: Example 10.3 & TP 10.3 (will do in class). Then TP 10.5.
These notes are a cleaned-up version of the notes taken during our virtual class discussion that occurred on MS Teams. The video file is available through the Team "Files".
LSN21_Scattering1_Intro.pdfLesson 21: Scattering Theory 1 - Intro
THESE ARE FILLED-IN NOTES
Read: Pages 376-380
Focus: Example 10.1 & 10.2 (really the same problem)
LSN16_WKB_connection_AiryFuncs.pdfLesson 16: Connection Formula across a barrier.
Read: Pages 362-369
Focus: Table 9.1 (pg 365)
Focus: Figure 9.8 (pg 363)
FOCUS: ARW16!!
LSN15_WKB_Tunneling2.pdfLesson 15: Quantum Tunneling in WKB approximation
Read: Pages 358-362
Read: TP 2.33 on pg 75 (you'll do this in PS3)
You'll do Example 9.2 in class
LSN14_EX_9.1_WKB_ISW_bumpyfloor.pdfLesson 14: WKB Approximation: ISW Application
Read: Pages 354-358 (Focus on Example 9.1)
Review: ISW Solutions.
We'll do Example 9.1 together you will do TP 9.1
LSN05_AtomicTrans_F_and_HF_Struct_tie_to_PH486_sm.pdfLesson 05: Atomic Transitions, Fine Structure Review, Hyperfine Structure, and tie to PH486 "Experimental Physics" (Atom Cooling lab).
Read: These notes and pg 311-313
Focus: 21cm-line (notes and text)
ARW for this topic is part of PS01.
LSN04_ZeemanEffect_on_H-Spectra_Classwork_sm.pdfZeeman Effect (Weak, Intermediate, Strong) on H-Spectra.
Read: pg 304-311
Review: TP 4.16 (from PH484). Review front page of these notes before class.
Class will be a discussion and fill-in-the-blank lesson. There is NO ARW with this lesson.
LSN03_FineStructure_H_sm.pdfThe Fine Structure of Hydrogen. An application of Perturbation Theory.
LSN02_DegenerateTIPT_sm.pdfLesson 02: Degenerate, Time-Independent Perturbation Theory.
Read: Pages 286-295.
Focus: Example 7.2 (using result of TP 7.2a)
Review: QHO from Chapter 2.
Review: Supplement: Change of Variables (page 4 of notes)
LSN01_TimeIndPertThry_TIPT_sm.pdfLesson 01: Non-Degenerate, Time-Independent Perturbation Theory (ND TIPT)
Read: Pages 280-286
Focus: Example 7.1
Review: Infinite Square Well Problem Chapter 2.
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