Physics 205

Spring 2001

Note that the Physics 205 Final Exam is on Thursday, from 10 am until 12 noon, in Bannan 301.

Hints on what to put study emphasis on (the size of the font, listed in parentheses, is in approximate proportion to the topic’s presence on the Final Exam):

Chapter 3:

Quantization of charge (10)

Blackbody radiation (10)

Photoelectric effect (10)

Chapter 4:

Rutherford’s experiments and results (10)

Bohr model and spectral lines (14)

Chapter 5:

de Broglie hypothesis and particle wavelengths (16)

Probabilistic interpretation of the wave function (16)

Uncertainty principle (10)

Chapter 6:

Schroedinger Eq in 1-d (18)

Infinite square well (18)

Finite square well (12)

Expectation values and operators (12)

Reflection and transmission of waves in QM (10)

Chapter 7:

Electron spin (10)

Chapter 9:

The ionic bond (14)

Chapter 10:

The structure of solids (16)

Classical theory of conduction (16)

Impurity semiconductors (10)

Semiconductor junctions and devices (10)