Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||||
03/28 | No class: comp exam. But please review hydrogenic atoms. | ||||||
03/30 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave. | HW 1 | |||||
04/01 | Absorption and emission. | HW 2 | WS 1 | ||||
04/04 | The electric dipole approximation. | WS 2 | |||||
04/06 | Spontaneous emission. | ||||||
04/08 | Selection rules. | HW 3 | WS 3 | ||||
04/11 | Line shapes and widths. | WS 4 | Orbital angular momentum of photon | Spin of a single photon | |||
04/13 | The Einstein coefficients. | HW 4 | WS 5 | ||||
04/15 | The photoelectric effect. | ||||||
04/18 | Scattering of radiation by atomic systems. | HW 5 | WS 6 | Raman scattering in SWNT | |||
04/20 | Fine structure of hydrogenic atoms. | WS 7 | |||||
04/22 | Fine structure splitting. Lamb shift. | HW 6 | Lamb & Retherford experiment | ||||
04/25 | Hyperfine splitting. | WS 8 | Modern spectroscopy-1 | Modern spectroscopy-2 | Proton structure | ||
04/27 | Isotope shifts.One-electron atom in external electric field. | HW 7 | Hydrogen & Deuterium: hyperfine | Modern research on hyperfine interactions | 1st observation of 21-cm line | 2nd observation of 21-cm line | |
04/29 | One-electron atom in static magnetic field: Zeeman effect. | WS 9 | |||||
05/02 | Anomalous Zeeman effect. Two-electron atoms. | Midterm is set for Wednesday, May 11. Ch. 4-7.Open book. | |||||
05/04 | Helium atom. | HW 8 | 1st observation of doubly-excited states of He | ||||
05/06 | Many-electron atoms. The central field approximation. | WS 10 | 05/09 | The periodic table. | WS 11 | ||
05/11 | Midterm (2 pm, Weniger 304) | ||||||
05/13 | Thomas-Fermi model. | HW 9 | |||||
05/16 | L-S and j-j coupling. | ||||||
05/18 | Interaction of many-electron atom with EM field. | HW 10 | WS 12 | ||||
05/20 | Molecular structure. | ||||||
05/23 | Molecular structure:symmetries. | HW 11 | Ground state of hydrogen molecule | ||||
05/25 | Molecular rotations and vibrations. Molecular spectroscopy. | Spectroscopy in surface science | Detection of molecules in stellar atmosphere | Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy | ||
05/27 | Molecular spectroscopy: electronic transitions. Intro to lasers. | Reminder: papers are due next Wednesday | |||||
05/30 | Memorial Day. |