Hints for Test III

• Obviously we don't have time to cover this material in great depth but we should be able to talk about a few interesting points.
• No sheet of equations.
• Constants will be provided, as will equations needed from last semester.
• You must show the instructor an empty calculator memory before the test starts.
• Any interesting material from these chapters not covered in class is a possible bonus question.
• You may get half credit for late homework (due the week after the test at the latest).

• Don't forget that this test will cover interference, diffraction, optical resolution and Fourier series so you may want to review the past tests for Test II.
  
• There will be a problem about a particle in a one dimensional box and/or quantum tunneling.
• Do not memorize the solutions to Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom. But you should know where the four quantum numbers come from (how they were derived) and what physical, classical quantities they correspond to. Can you prove that A sin (kx) is a solution to Schrödinger's time independent wave equation?
  
• There will be a photo-electric effect problem.
• There will be a radioactive decay problem.
  
• Some of the problems on the test will be based directly on homework problems (if you can do the homework problems these test problems will look very familiar).
• Since we didn't have time to do many problems, there may be more conceptual problems on this test. Make sure you understand the answers to the end of chapter conceptual problems. Potential question topics may include:
• Evidence for and applications of the quantum nature of the sub atomic world:
• What is the difference between discrete radiation and Black Body radiation?
• What is the ultraviolet catastrophe?
• How does a laser work? (spontaneous and stimulated emission, holography).
• Zeeman effect (normal and anomalous).
• Compton effect.
• Stern Gerlach experiment.
• Photoelectric effect.
• Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
  
• The  'Schrödinger recipe' for solving problems about electrons:
• quantum numbers.
  
• quantized energy, angular momentum, z component of angular momentum.
  
• probability.
  
• Spin: The exclusion principle for fermions (but not bosons).
  
• Schrödinger's cat.
• Nuclear physics
• Binding energy.
  
• Three types of nuclear decay.
• Fission
• Fusion
  
• Any material we covered which does not appear on this test could appear on the final.
• Obviously you will want to review the problems we did in class, homework problems, and examples in the book.

Past tests.

• Spring 1998
• Spring 2000
• Spring 2003
• Spring 2004
• Spring 2006

• NOTE: From year to year we cover slightly different material so you may see things in past years that were not covered this year. Conversely you may see things on this years test not covered in previous years.
• ALSO: Due to limitations with html formatting, not all figures and equations are available.