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Exam topics-- understand and be able to apply ideas like in homework… this list is incomplete but a good
start. Review your lecture notes & homework from class.
0. electromagnetic waves- interpretation and characteristics of classical picture.
1. Energy of photon, E = h ν, and how fit photon picture with classical wave picture.
2. Photoelectric effect-- what it is and what it shows.
3. Potential energy and potential energy graphs.
4. Work function of a metal.
5. Quantization of electromagnetic energy and concept of photon as unit of energy.
6. Interference pattern because goes through both slits as a wave, but intensity of wave reflects probability of
finding photon.
7. Quantization of energy in atoms, and how established experimentally.
8. Atomic spectra and connection with electron energy levels in atoms.
9. Atomic spectra as signature of atom.
10. Potential energy of electron in atom.
11. Atomic discharge lamps- how work and why so efficient at converting electrical energy to light.
12. Bohr model. What it explained and what were its shortcomings.
13. spin and stern-gerlach experiment-- sending atoms through inhomogeneous magnetic field.
14. doing multiple measurements on spin states, very basic idea of EPR experiment (whether it was right or not)
15. Notion of determined but hidden parameters (e.g. spin) or indeterminant.
16. superposition of energy states and how gives time dependence to probability(x).
17. What is the EPR paradox?
18. Single Photon experiments and interpretations; delayed choice experiments.
19 Debroglie wavelength of particle, how it is confirmed by experiments
20. Ψ as probability amplitude, Ψ squared as probability density.
21. Complex conjugate.
22. Normalization of wave function.
23. Boundary conditions on wave function, what will be in various physical situations.
24. Waves with boundary conditions, how gives quantization.
25. Electron in infinite square well and physical systems that are similar.
26. Schrodinger equation-- what it is.
27. Solutions to Schrodinger equation- plane waves and complex exponentials-- when.
28. Solutions to Schrod. eq. - real exponentials- when.
29. Solutions to schrod. eq. wavelength dependence on energy.
30. wave packet as sum of sine waves of different wavelengths/frequencies.
31. relationship between spread in x (sigma x) and spread in momentum (sigma k) for wave packet.
32. QM tunneling, including as applied to alpha decay. Factors that determine tunneling probability.
33. Scanning tunneling microscope.
34. Uncertainty principle
35. quantum measurement- what happens
36. Bohr vs Schrodinger pictures of hydrogen.
37. Solutions to schrod. eq. for H, wave functions and quantum numbers.
38. multielectron atoms-- explanation of periodic table in terms of quantum mechanics
39. molecular bonding--basic idea
40. QM of conductivity
41. energy level structure of metals, insulators, semiconductors.
42. doped semiconductors and P-N junctions.
43. Light emitting diodes.
44. interaction of light with atoms--absorption and spontaneous and stimulated emission.
45. conditions required to make laser
46. QM explanation for why different atoms and molecules are different colors/