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SES # TOPICS READINGS &  HANDOUTS
1 Intro Lectures: Basic Nucleus Concepts
2 Intro Lectures: Wave-Particle Duality & Historical Background
3 Quantum Mechanics #1 #2
  • New Concepts
  • Postulate 1 (Observables & Operators)
  • Eigenvalue Problem, Compare Classical State, Free Particles
  • Postulate 2 (Quantum State, psi)
  • Postulate 3 (measurement probabilities)
Liboff 3.1-3.3
Postulates Handout
4 Quantum Mechanics #3 #4
  • Free Particle in Box, Quantization of Energy Levels
  • Interpretation of the Wave Function
  • Solutions in Classically Allowed and Disallowed Regions
  • 1D Scattering Problem, Outgoing B.C.
  • Normalization of psi, Flux Interpretation,
  • Transmission and Reflection Coefficients.
  • Particle in Square Well Energy Eigenvalue Problem
  • Graphical Solution - Fitting Wavelength in Well

Liboff 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Liboff 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

5 Quantum Mechanics #5 #6
  • Commutators
  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
  • Degenerary, Complete Sets of Commuting Observables

Liboff 5.1-5.5

6 Quantum Mechanics #7 #8
  • Postulate 4 (Time Evolution)Conservation Laws
  • d < A >/ dt Expression
  • Ehrenfest Principle and Classical Limit
  • Quantum Mechanical Angular Momentum
  • Eignevalue Problem (for L) via Commutator Algebra
  • Algebraic Possibility of 1/2 Integer l Values
  • Orbital Angular Momentum
  • Spin Angular Momentum
  • Coupled and Uncoupled Representations

Liboff 3.4, 3.5, 6.2
Liboff 9.1-9.3

7 Quantum Mechanics #9
  • Many Particle Wave Functions
  • Symmetries of the Many Particle psi Function
  • Fermions and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
  • Bosons

 

 

 

8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Nuclear Structure #1 #2
  • Essential Features of Nuclear Force
  • Guess the Potential, Vnuc
  • Center of Mass, Remove Degree of Freedom
  • Deuteron Eigenvalue Problem, Ground State
  • Physical Picture of Deuteron
  • Spin Dependence of the Nuclear Force
  • "Tensor" Interaction

Krane 3
Krane 4

10 Nuclear Structure #3 #4
  • Nuclear Shell Model, Oscillator Levels
  • Nuclear Shell Model #2, Spin-Orbit Coupling, Magic Numbers
Krane 5
11 Nuclear Structure #5 -Radioactive Decay, Alpha Decay

Krane 8

12 Gamma Decay Liboff 10.7, Krane 10
13 Beta Decay
Nuclear Interactions #1, - Charged Particle Interactions
Krane 9
Krane 7
14 Beta Decay
Nuclear Interactions #1, - Charged Particle
Interactions (Cont'd)
Liboff 10.7, Krane 10
15 Nuclear Interactions #2 #3
  • Gamma Ry Iteractions
  • Neutron Interactions
Krane 12
16 Nuclear Interactions #4 #5
  • Fission
  • Fusion


Krane 13
Krane 14