Week 14 (T-giving, and then Nov 28-Dec 2):
This picture is from the 1927 "Solvay conference". See how many physicists of that era you can ID!
Can you find Dirac? Schrodinger? Heisenberg? Curie?
Bohr? DeBroglie? Compton? Lorentz? Ehrenfest?
If you want to check, here's a link to a picture with their names.
From Wikipedia: "17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie,
who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines"
Also, from Gabriel - here is (according to Wikipedia) the only know image (a water color) of
Legendre (with smiling Fourier on the right), from 1820
This week: Spherical harmonics, and then the hydrogen radial equation.
Announcements:
- The last preflight of the semester will be due Monday Dec 5. (Usual time)
- HW #12 is due Friday Dec 2. (Last one) If you printed it out very early on, you'll find Q5 and Q6 order swapped...
For Q#4, there was some question at the Wed evening homework help session about what I meant by "like the previous question".
I merely meant to consider the same *setup*, i.e., once again we have a particle on a ring.
(I'm not asking you to repeat all the various questions in #3)
So, the ONLY question for Q#4 is "find the probability density as a function of space and time.
- All old Tutorials can be found at the lecture notes page, see "lectures and clickers" tab above.
- Some information about the final is available in the usual places: exam info and detailed course goals page.
- For help, CONTACT SJP or Gabriel (our LA) or Allie (our grader) (or visit our piazza page and ask a question!)
Other notes outside of class: - The big Bell's inequality test (Nov 30). (You can contribute by generating a random sequence of 0's and 1's for them to use :-)
- CU-prime talks are every other week, Tuesday@5 (11th floor, with piazza). Check for flyers in the Gamow tower elevators.
OLDER ANNOUNCEMENT PAGES (and old cartoons):
week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, week 13,