Professor: Ken Intriligator
5234 Mayer Hall
keni@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Thurs. 11:00 - 12:30 pm,
or by appointment. 		 TA: Brian Wecht
4234 Mayer Hall
bwecht@physics.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Weds. 4:45 - 6:00 pm,
or by appointment. 

Final Exam and Course grades are now available. Have a great summer!

Text: Modern Physics, Second Edition, by Serway, Moses, and Moyer . This and other possibly useful texts will be placed on reserve at the Undergraduate Library.

Course Times : Lecture: MWF 11:15-12:05 WLH 2114 and Tues, 5:45-6:35pm; Discussion Session: Weds 3:35-4:25 SOLIS 109; Problem Session: Thurs, 7:00-8:50pm, WLH 2208.

Homework: Will be assigned weekly, but not collected. Problem "1.15" means problem 15 in chapter 1, etc.

Quizzes: Will be during the Friday lectures of weeks 2,4,6,8, and 10.

Final: Friday June 14, 11:30-2:30. No late or early finals, check your schedule now!

Grading: Quizzes=50%, Misc=5%, Final=45%.

Quiz solutions: Quiz1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Quiz 5

Quiz and final exam scores here.

General information and rules        Last year's Physics 4e web site

Week# Topics (and link to lecture notes) Homework
1 The quantum theory of light (ch 2)  problems           solutions
2 quantum light cont   2.11, 2.13, 2.19, 2.23, 2.26, 2.37
3 Particle nature of matter (ch 3)   3.17, 3.24, 3.28, 3.35, 3.42
4 Matter waves(ch 4)  ch4 #s: 4, 6, 14, 16, 22, 24, 27, 28
5 1d quantum mechanics (ch 5)   Ch5#s: 1, 9, 12, 31, 32 + lect. probs.
6 More 1d quantum mechanics  Ch5#s:16 + lect. probs.
7 Square wells, barriers, and Tunneling  5.20a, 5.25, 5.39, 5.40 (and optional * exercises in notes)
8 More tunnelling, 3d QM, and a bit of L   6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 7.5
9 More on L, and hydrogen atom HW problems and solutions
10 Spin, Statistics, atomic structure 7.13, 7.17, 7.25, 7.30, 8.1, 8.6, 8.11, 8.17, 8.22