Course given during the spring semester of 2024-2025 over 14 weeks (2 hours theory + 2 hours practice), please see also the syllabus. The course materials will be added during the semester.
Exams (and example exams) of both the final and midterm exams are provided further down. If you are a student using the exam examples to study, be aware that the course can undergo changes over the years.
| Lecture | Topics | Slides | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | (pdf) | |
| 1 | Relativity | (pdf) | Ch. 39 |
| 2 | Waves and Particles | (pdf) | Ch. 40 |
| 3 | Wave packets and Uncertainty | (pdf) | Ch. 40 |
| 4 | Schrodinger equation and Probability | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 6 | Quantum particles in a potential | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 7 | Particle in a box & finite well | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 8 | Tunneling through a potential barrier | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 9 | Harmonic Oscillator | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 11 | Bohr's hydrogen atom, absorption/emission spectra | (pdf) | Ch. 41 |
| 12 | Quantum mechanical model of the hydrogen atom | (pdf) | Ch. 42 |
| 13 | Spin, Pauli-exclusion principle / Table of Mendeljev | (pdf) | Ch. 42 |
| 14 | X-rays | (pdf) | Ch. 42 |
| 15 | Atomic bonds and molecules | (pdf) | Ch. 43 |
| 16 | Crystalline materials and energy band structure | (pdf) | Ch. 43 |
| Year | Exam name | Questions | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | Example midterm exam 1 | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Midterm exam 1 | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Midterm exam 1B | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Midterm exam 1C | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Example midterm exam 2 | (pdf) | |
| 2024-2025 | Midterm exam 2 | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Example final exam | (pdf) | |
| 2024-2025 | Final exam | (pdf) | (pdf) |
| 2024-2025 | Final exam (retake) | (pdf) | [to be uploaded] |