Modern Physics

the week of April 26  -  30

this week's readings

    Monday, April 26           read pages 196-197: on The Particle in a Box
                                        finish  blue sheet in lab book: QED part 4
                                        start white sheet in lab book: QED part 5

    Tuesday, April 27        finish section 5-4 on the particle in the infinite box

                                        how did quantization happen?
                                        how did we manage to get 2 unknowns out of the Schroedinger equation
                                            (both the energy and the wavefunction)?

    Thursday, April 29        read section 5-7 on expectation and average values

    Friday, April 30            no class.... Research Symposium day


this week's assignments

    Tuesday, April 27                finish QED part 5

    Thursday, April 29               what is the feature of the Schroedinger equation that makes it linear?
                                                    (or the feature of all differential equations)
                                                come up with a non-linear differential equation?

    Monday, May 3                    finish QED part 6 and 7


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