History of Atomic Physics, Basic Conceps,
Spectra, Hydrogen Atom |
The atom became
part of physics mainly after the discovery of the electron (look this up; 1897). Spectra - photos of them - Chemistry earlier. But no theory; Spectrum - prism - Newton (1704) and before. spectral lines ---- OPTICS - which (visible) color of light moves slowest and which fastest (red is the fast, surprisingly) ---- That is why we have the copied picture (but its text is somewhat crazy - as many things on www are) Atomic models - Bohr 1913 - before others, J.J. Thompson Christmas pudding ... Look this up Then we repeated some - oh - so well known "facts" about quantum physics - bound states (neg. energy) discrete values; lefvels; - Bohr --> Louis de Broglie --> Schrödinger .... Pauli (Heisenberg a different story ... ) |
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Above -
separation of variables and this "polymorphic" use of Psi - both Psi(x,t) and Psi(x) in the same equation (this is for those who were tortured by C++ prophets) Next slide: H = T + V - how did Scrödinger construct the operators? Simplified version sketched below - based on de Broglie suggestion - probably what is known for sure - a famous and a very useful DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION results |
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a famous and a
very useful DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
results ... draw the potentials with and without bound states - JUST AS IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS only that the bound states can only have "selected energies" we illustrate why for most n"bound state energies" Schrödinger equation DOES NOT WORK .... exp (ikx) .... when k behaves rather as k --> + i kappa or k --> - i kappa .... then exp ( kappa x ) exponential blow-out --- solution nonphysical .... in textbooks: algebraic methods; power series; only for some values of E infinite series terminated .... Generally - the dif. eq. simply "loses the tail" for a very special value of energy Schrödinger's Toy http://web.ift.uib.no/AMOS/schroed/ |
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One
dimensional case can be illustrated by Schrödinger's Toy
http://web.ift.uib.no/AMOS/schroed/ ..... see also the toy in the discussion 2 years ago : ../2013_08_20/index.html Energy levels and energy spectra Theory - energy level scheme --> construct transitions lines --> construct spectrum Experiment - identify line spectra --> construct energy level scheme h, lambda h-bar, lambda-bar |
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Energy levels
and spectra - systematics - in all textbooks, encyclopedias ..... Selection rules ----- |
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xcf_0004.png yrast line - the one rotating fastest ( yrast = dizziest - Swedish as most of this, Rydberg - but Lyman was American, from Boston, not Swedish) We shall continue from this equation ....... At the end of the lecture CITIZENDUM - see link below --- (was unresponsive) |
List of Radial
functions: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/hydrogen-like_atom#List_of_radial_functions see also the whole article http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/hydrogen-like_atom - better than wikipedia Hydrogen atom wavefunctions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_atom#Wavefunction Laplace operator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_operator#Three_dimensions NEXT LECTURE: See the above links to http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/hydrogen-like_atom (the whole article) ..... also Graphical study of Hydrogen Bound States (MATLAB) and the two lectures of the last year: ../2014_08_26/index.html and ../2014_08_21/index.html |