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PHYS261 Lecture 25.08.2011 and plan for tuesday 30.08.2011
Here is a record from the lecture 25.08.2011                  Recorded  25.08.201
PLAN for lecture 25.08.2011 (not covered during the lecture)

Topics today: 

1. AMOS: atomic molecular and optical sciences - 21. century

2. Traditional atomic physics: 
    Spectroscopy
    Atomic processes in gases, astrophysics
    Plasma physics

    Atomic collisions, ( ions, electrons )
    Accelerators (keV, MeV   … GeV )


Why laser - coherent light, [ collimation laser  ]  
      picosecond pulses 
      femtosecond pulses   <- biology, chemistry,   
      attosecond pulses
      strong field lasers

                 Solid state lasers …. 

Quantum physics     
Schrödinger Equation,   Linear Algebra
< Psi |  H  | Psi >   Expectation values, Dirac notation


Hydrogen Atom 


( ... and 20. century physics)
one-electron atomic systems, 
Bound state wavefunctions, 
Selection Rules, 
Experimental Atomic Physics. 



1.  About constants - here about the Boltzmann constant

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2 A sort of derivation of ATOMIC UNIT OF LENGTH, Bohr Radius a_0
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--   Bohr radius continue

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4  Some features of Quantum mechanics we need for our course

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We are closing by LINEAR ALGEBRA, Matrix formulation of operators, 
Dirac Notation

We have also looked at hydrogen wavefunctions formulae
and one matlab program showing the radial functions.

PHYS115 exercise (about 2005) used the code
The matlab codes can be downloded from there (bottom of the page)


PLAN for tuesday 30.08.2011.
1. Some more on "Hydrogen-like atoms"
2. Starting the two-electron atom
        see our note-presentation at miside.uib.no
        in this first part mainly about the quantal model - an introduction
        you can also read in any introductory text about this topic 
        it will be useful if you prepare some questions / observations


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