 Announcements (last update: November 20)
- Final Examination:
Monday, December 21, 2pm-5pm.
Location: ENGINEERING 1B71.
Check out the location before the day of the exam!
You must bring your student card (or other picture ID)!
You need an electronic calculator for numerical calculations.
You must not use any other electronic devices during the exam.
You must be enrolled in the class to participate in the exam.
You may use a self-prepared formula sheet, consisting of four letter
size pages (i.e. four sheets of paper single-sided or two sheets of
paper double-sided).
 Supplementary material on special
relativity
Supplementary material on blackbody
radiation
Additional material on early quantum
mechanics and atomic physics
- A brief overview of the early development of
nuclear physics (posted on October 21).
I prepared this for the students who are interested in this. Note how often the name
Rutherford appears in this list. But there is even more to Rutherford's impact on the
early development of nuclear physics: Hahn had been working as a postdoctoral researcher
in Rutherford's lab in Montreal, Geiger and Bohr had served as postdoctoral
researchers in Rutherford's lab in Manchester, and Cockcroft had worked
as a postdoctoral researcher in Rutherford's lab in Cambridge.
Chadwick and Walton had worked on their PhDs with Rutherford. Nuttall
was a student of Rutherford in Manchester.
Additional material on some
mathematical aspects
Additional material on Schrödinger's
equation
- In 1987, Akira Tonomura
and collaborators at the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory and Gakushuin University
in Tokyo demonstrated single-electron buildup of the electron interference pattern in a
double slit experiment. A public explanation of the experiment and a video clip are provided by
Hitachi on the following website.
The electrons are sufficiently separated to ensure that it is interference of single electron
wavefunctions which generates the interference pattern, but each single electron generates only
a single dot on the detector screen. The original journal reference for the experiment is
A. Tonomura et al., American Journal of Physics 57 (1989) 117-120.
(links included on November 9, only for students who are interested in this).
Additional material on tunneling and
its applications
- Calculation of the transmission probability
for the symmetric square barrier (posted on November 16).
This contains the figure displaying T as a function of E/U for
various parameters ξ. In addition it contains remarks on
the classical limit and on the approximate evaluation of T for
barriers of arbitrary shape, but this is only for information for
those of you who are interested in this.
- Supplement on tunnel diodes (posted on November 20).
This is strictly only for students who are passionate about technical applications
of quantum mechanics. The emergence of energy bands in solids and p-n junctions in
semiconductors are explained in sections 12.4 and 12.5 of the textbook.
Additional material on
applications of quantum mechanics
 Assignments
If you have any questions about our programs in Physics and
Engineering Physics, or if you want to become a Physics teacher
and need advice about suitable classes, please drop me a note or consult
our advising page.
Rainer Dick
Professor
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics
Telephone: (306) 966-6443
Facsimile: (306) 966-6400
E-mail: rainer.dick@usask.ca
Office: 256 Physics
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