APPPHYS 383: Introduction to Atomic Processes (Mabuchi)

Tue+Thu 2:15-3:30pm / 126 McCollough

Class notes and assignments


Tue 1/5:
Overview slides (includes tentative syllabus)
              
Solutions for the in-class pre-test
              Assignment for 1/7: read Appendix from
Atom-Photon Interactions

Thu 1/7: Discuss reading assignment (notes)
              Assignments for 1/12: literature assignment, problems distributed by email

Tue 1/12: Discuss assignments (notes); background material on method of successive approximations (notes)
                Assignments for 1/14: read Chapter 1 and Complement A1

Thu 1/14: Discuss readings (
notes)
                Assignments for 1/19: problems distributed by email

 

Tue 1/19: Discuss assignments (notes)
                Assignments for 1/21: read Complement C1

 

Thu 1/21: Discuss readings (notes)

                Assignments for 1/26: problems distributed by email

 

Tue 1/26: Discuss assignments (notes)
                Assignments for 1/28: read Chapter 2

 

Thu 1/28: Discuss readings (notes)
                Assignments for 2/2: problems distributed by email

 

Tue 2/2: Discuss assignments (notes); background material on tensor product and partial traces (notes)
              Assignments for 2/4: read Chapter 4 (main part only)

 

Thu 2/4: Discuss readings (notes)

              Assignments for 2/9: problems distributed by email, read Complement B4

Tue 2/9: Discuss assignments (
notes)
              Assignments for 2/11: read Complement A4

Thu 2/11: Discuss Complements B4 (
notes) and A4 (notes)
                NO CLASS ON 2/16; Assignments for 2/18: read Chapter 5

Thu 2/18: Discuss Chapter 5 (
notes)
                Assignments for 2/23: problems distributed by email

Tue 2/23: Discuss assignments (
notes)
                Assignments for 2/25: read Chapter 6

Thu 2/25: Discuss Chapter 6 (
notes)
                Assignments for 3/2: problems distributed by email

Tue 3/2: Discuss assignments (
notes)
              Assignments for 3/4: finish problems assigned for 3/2