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Zenghu Chang
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Web address: www.phys.ksu.edu/~chang/
e-mail: chang@phys.ksu.edu
Phone: (785) 532-1621
Room: 330

Office Hour: by appointment
Lecture: M, W, F 10:30am at CW146. Homework due the following Monday 10:30am.
Late turn in of homework will not be accepted except very special cases.

0.2 Grade Allocations

• Homework: 1/2
  
• Tests: 1/4
  
• Final exam: 1/4
• A:90-100, B:80-89, C:70-79, D:60-69, F:0-59

0.3 Text book

Quantum Physics of atoms, molecules, solids. nuclei and particles

Second edition

by Robert Eisberg, and Robert Resnick

Wiley (1985). 

ISBN 0-471-87373-X

0.4 Chapters to be covered (The schedule is tentative)

Semester starts on 1/24/04

Week 1, 1/25/04 (F), and Week 2, 1/26/04 (M),

          Chapter 1 Thermal radiation and Planck's postulate

          Chapter 5 Schroedinger's theory of quantum mechanics

Week 8, 3/8/04 (M),

          Chapter 6 Solutions of time-independent Schroedinger equations

3/19/04 (F) 

Second test

3/22-3/26, student holiday

Week 10, 3/29/04(M),

         Chapter 7 One-electron atoms

Week 11, 4/5/04(M),

         Chapter 8 Magnetic dipole moments, spin, and transition rates

Week 12, 4/12/04(M),

         Chapter 9 Multiplelectron atoms-ground states and x-ray excitations

4/16/04(F)

         Third test

Week 13, 4/19/04(M),

          Chapter 10 Multelectron atoms-optical excitations

Week 14, 4/26/04 (M),

          Chapter 11 Quantum statistics

Week 15, 5/3/04 (M),

           Chapter 12 Molecules

5/12/04 (W) Final review

5/14/04 (F) No Class