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Review Modern Physics, Ph 311Review Modern Physics, Ph 311

It was found that there was no displacement of the interference fringes, so that the result of the experiment was negative and would, therefore, show that there is still a difficulty in the theory itself…

- Albert Michelson, 1907

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Inertial Reference Frame

A reference frame is called an inertial frame if Newton laws are valid in that frame.

Such a frame is established when a body, not subjected to net external forces, is observed to move in rectilinear motion at constant velocity.

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Newtonian Principle of Relativity

If Newton’s laws are valid in one reference frame, then they are also valid in another reference frame moving at a uniform velocity relative to the first system.

This is referred to as the Newtonian principle of relativity or Galilean invariance/relativity.

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The Galilean Transformation

For a point P In system K: P = (x, y, z, t) In system K’: P = (x’, y’, z’, t’)

x

K

P

K’ x’-axis

x-axis

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Conditions of the Galilean Transformation

Parallel axes K’ has a constant relative velocity in the x-direction

with respect to K

Time (t) for all observers is a Fundamental invariant, i.e., the same for all inertial observers

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The Inverse Relations

Step 1. Replace with .

Step 2. Replace “primed” quantities with

“unprimed” and “unprimed” with “primed.”

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Results of Maxwell's electrodynamics

Visible light covers only a small range of the total electromagnetic spectrum

All electromagnetic waves travel in a vacuum with a speed c given by:

(where μ0 and ε0 are the respective permeability and permittivity of “free” space)

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Need for Ether

The wave nature of light suggested that there existed a propagation medium called the luminiferous ether or just ether. Ether had to have such a low density that the planets

could move through it without loss of energy

It also had to have an enormous elasticity/toughness to support the high velocity of light waves

According to classical physics ideas, the ether frame would be a preferred frame, the only one in which Maxwell’s equation would be valid as derived

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An Absolute Reference System

Ether was proposed as an absolute reference system in which the speed of light was this constant and in all frames moving with respect that that frame, there needed to be modifications of Maxwell’s laws.

The Michelson-Morley experiment was an attempt to figure out Earth’s relatives movement through (with respect to) the ether so that Maxwell’s equations could be corrected for this effect.

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1. AC is parallel to the motion of the Earth inducing an “ether wind”

2. Light from source S is split by mirror A and travels to mirrors C and D in mutually perpendicular directions

3. After reflection the beams recombine at A slightly out of phase due to the “ether wind” as viewed by telescope E.

The Michelson Interferometer

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The Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction

Another hypothesis proposed independently by both H. A. Lorentz and G. F. FitzGerald suggested that the length ℓ1, in the direction of the motion was contracted by a factor of

…thus making the path lengths equal to account for the zero phase shift.

This, however, was an ad hoc assumption that could not be experimentally tested. It turned out to be “less than half of the story”

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Length contracted for the moving muon, it’s own life

time just 2.2 micro seconds

Life time of the muon delayed for observer on Earth so that it can travel the whole distance

as observed from Earth

Great thing about special relativity is that one can

always take two viewpoints, moving with the experiment,

watching the experiment move, the observations need

to be consistent in both cases

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Lorentz Transformation Equations

So there is four-dimensional space time !!!

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Mary has a light clock. A suitable clock is just any periodic process, the time it takes for one cycle of the process is the period, its inverse is the frequency.

Tom watching Mary go by figures that her time is delayed due to her moving in a straight line with a constant high velocity.

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Figure 2.20: Two airplanes took off (at different times) from Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Naval Observatory is located. The airplanes traveled east and west around Earth as it rotated. Atomic clocks on the airplanes were compared with similar clocks kept at the observatory to show that the moving clocks in the airplanes ran slower.

Atomic Clock Measurement

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No simultaneity if not also at the same position, just a consequence of the Lorentz transformaitons

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The Lorentz Velocity Transformations

In addition to the previous relations, the Lorentz velocity transformations for u’x, u’y , and u’z can be obtained by switching primed and unprimed and changing v to –v:

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Einstein’s Two Postulates

With the belief that Maxwell’s equations (and with it all of the known physics of the time) must be

valid in all inertial frames, Einstein proposes thefollowing postulates:

1) The principle of relativity: The laws of physics are the same in all inertial systems. There is no way to detect absolute motion, and no preferred inertial system exists.

2) The constancy of the speed of light: Observers in all inertial systems measure the same value for the speed of light in a vacuum.

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Rather than abandon the conservation of linear momentum, let us look for a modification of the definition of linear momentum that preserves both it and Newton’s second law.

To do so requires reexamining mass to conclude that:

Relativistic Momentum

Relativistic dynamics can be derived by assuming that mass is increasing with

velocity. The Lorentz factor gets larger when velocities get larger and so does mass apparently as we can see from the

relativistic momentum equation. Einstein derived relativistic dynamics that way. His

derivations are sure correct, but the foundations are somewhat shaking as there

is no really good definition for mass.

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Relativistic Energy

Due to the new idea of relativistic mass, we must now redefine the concepts of work and energy. Therefore, we modify Newton’s second law to

include our new definition of linear momentum, and force becomes:

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Equation (2.58) does not seem to resemble the classical result for kinetic energy, K = ½mu2. However, if it is correct, we expect it to reduce to the classical result for low speeds. Let’s see if it does. For speeds u << c, we expand in a binomial series as follows:

where we have neglected all terms of power (u/c)4 and greater, because u << c. This gives the following approximation for the relativistic kinetic energy at low speeds:

which is the expected classical result. We show both the relativistic and classical kinetic energies in the next Figure. They diverge considerably above a velocity of 0.1c. Best to use relativistic dynamics as soon as the speed of something is larger than 1 % of the speed of light.

Relativistic Kinetic Energy

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Relativistic and Classical Kinetic Energies

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Total Energy and Rest Energy

We rewrite in the form

The term mc2 is called the rest energy and is denoted by E0.

This leaves the sum of the kinetic energy and rest energy to be interpreted as the total energy of the particle. The total energy is denoted by E and is given by

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We square this result, multiply by c2, and rearrange the result.

We replace β2 and find

Momentum and Energy

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Momentum and Energy (continued)The first term on the right-hand side is just E2, and the second term is

E02. The last equation becomes

We rearrange this last equation to find the result we are seeking, a relation between energy and momentum.

or

is a useful result to relate the total energy of a particle with its momentum. The quantities (E2 – p2c2) and m are invariant quantities. Note that when a particle’s velocity is zero and it has no momentum, “accelerator Equation” correctly gives E0 as the particle’s total energy.

There can be mass less particles that still have momentum. These can collide with massive particles. For such a collision one needs to invoke special relativity!

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The binding energy is the difference between the rest energy of the individual particles and the rest energy of the combined bound system.

Binding Energy

A couple of eV for chemical reactions.

A couple of MeV for nuclear reactions.

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A Conducting Wire

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Principle of Equivalence The principle of equivalence

is an experiment in non-inertial reference frames.

Consider an astronaut sitting in a confined space on a rocket placed on Earth. The astronaut is strapped into a chair that is mounted on a weighing scale that indicates a mass M. The astronaut drops a safety manual that falls to the floor.

Now contrast this situation with the rocket accelerating through space. The gravitational force of the Earth is now negligible. If the acceleration has exactly the same magnitude g on Earth, then the weighing scale indicates the same mass M that it did on Earth, and the safety manual still falls with the same acceleration as measured by the astronaut. The question is: How can the astronaut tell whether the rocket is on earth or in space?

Principle of equivalence: There is no experiment that can be done in a small confined space that can detect the difference between a uniform gravitational field and an equivalent uniform acceleration.

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Gravitational Time Dilation Since the frequency of the clock decreases near the Earth, a

clock in a gravitational field runs more slowly (it takes longer for a hand to move on a clock – so in aggregate the clock gets slower) according to the gravitational time dilation. This is because 4D space-time is “bend” – non-Euclidian, so there are no Euclidian straight lines to follow but Geodesics in a space whit Riemann’s coordinates

A very accurate experiment was done by comparing the frequency of an atomic clock flown on a Scout D rocket to an altitude of 10,000 km with the frequency of a similar clock on the ground. The measurement agreed with Einstein’s general relativity theory to within 0.02%.

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Tests of General RelativityBending of Light During a solar eclipse of the sun by the moon,

most of the sun’s light is blocked on Earth, which afforded the opportunity to view starlight passing close to the sun in 1919. The starlight was bent as it passed near the sun which caused the star to appear displaced.

Einstein’s general theory predicted a deflection of 1.75 seconds of arc, and the two measurements found 1.98 ± 0.16 and 1.61 ± 0.40 seconds.

Since the eclipse of 1919, many experiments, using both starlight and radio waves from quasars, have confirmed Einstein’s predictions about the bending of light with increasingly good accuracy.

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Light Retardation

As light passes by a massive object, the path taken by the light is longer because of the spacetime curvature.

The longer path causes a time delay for a light pulse traveling close to the sun.

This effect was measured by sending a radar wave to Venus, where it was reflected back to Earth. The position of Venus had to be in the “superior conjunction” position on the other side of the sun from the Earth. The signal passed near the sun and experienced a time delay of about 200 microseconds. This was in excellent agreement with the general theory.

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Spacetime Curvature of Space Light bending for the Earth observer seems to violate the premise

that the velocity of light is constant from special relativity. Light traveling at a constant velocity implies that it travels in a straight line.

Einstein recognized that we need to expand our definition of a straight line.

The shortest distance between two points on a flat surface appears different than the same distance between points on a sphere. The path on the sphere appears curved. We shall expand our definition of a straight line to include any minimized distance between two points.

Thus if the spacetime near the Earth is not flat, then the straight line path of light near the Earth will appear curved.

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Perihelion Shift of Mercury

The orbits of the planets are ellipses, and the point closest to the sun in a planetary orbit is called the perihelion. It has been known for hundreds of years that Mercury’s orbit precesses about the sun. Accounting for the perturbations of the other planets left 43 seconds of arc per century that was previously unexplained by classical physics.

The curvature of spacetime explained by general relativity accounted for the 43 seconds of arc shift in the orbit of Mercury.

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Gravitational Wave Experiments Taylor and Hulse discovered a binary system of two neutron stars that lose

energy due to gravitational waves that agrees with the predictions of general relativity.

LIGO is a large Michelson interferometer device that uses four test masses on two arms of the interferometer. The device will detect changes in length of the arms due to a passing wave.

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are jointly developing a space-based probe called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) which will measure fluctuations in its triangular shape.

No success so far, perhaps general relativity (and special relativity with it) are

not really true, just very very good approximations to something else?

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BUT, thank you very much

indeed Albert !!! everybody loves

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Dual nature of light (electromagnetic radiation) both/neither wave and/nor particle

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Light according to Maxwell

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Wien’s Displacement Law The intensity (λ, T) is the total power radiated per unit

area per unit wavelength at a given temperature. Wien’s displacement law: The maximum of the

distribution shifts to smaller wavelengths as the temperature is increased.

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Two fitting parameters and no physical theory behind them !!

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3.5: Blackbody Radiation

When matter is heated, it emits radiation.

A blackbody is a cavity in a material that only emits thermal radiation. Incoming radiation is absorbed in the cavity.

Blackbody radiation is theoretically interesting because the radiation properties of the blackbody are independent of the particular material. Physicists can study the properties of intensity versus wavelength at fixed temperatures.

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Rayleigh-Jeans Formula Lord Rayleigh used the classical theories of electromagnetism and thermodynamics to show that the

blackbody spectral distribution should be

It approaches the data at longer wavelengths, but it deviates badly at short wavelengths. This problem for small wavelengths became known as “the ultraviolet catastrophe” and was one of the outstanding exceptions that classical physics could not explain.

k: Boltzmann’s constant 8.614

10-5 eV/K

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Planck assumed that the radiation in the cavity was emitted (and absorbed) by some sort of “resonators” that were contained in the walls. These resonators were modeled as harmonic oscillators. He effectively invented new physics in the process. His result cannot be explained with classical Boltzmann-Maxwell statistics.

Planck made two modifications to the classical theory:1) The oscillators (of electromagnetic origin) can only have certain discrete

energies determined by En = nhf, where n is an integer, f is the frequency, and h is called Planck’s constant. h = 6.6261 × 10−34 J·s.

2) The oscillators can absorb or emit energy in discrete multiples of the fundamental quantum of energy given by

Planck’s Radiation Law

Planck’s radiation law, only one fundamental constant h left that can explain Wien’s and Stephan’s constants …, significant progress

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Photoelectric effect

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Experimental Results

Only if the energy threshold to get electrons out of the metal (work function) is

exceeded.

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Einstein’s Theory

Einstein suggested that the electromagnetic radiation field is quantized into particles called photons. Each photon has the energy quantum:

where f is the frequency of the light and h is Planck’s constant. Also he came up with the wave particle duality of light, at long wavelengts it looks more like a wave at short wavelenght, high frequency, high enerly it looks more like a particle

The photon travels at the speed of light in a vacuum, and its wavelength is given by

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Conservation of energy yields:

where is the work function of the metal.

Explicitly the energy is

The retarding potentials measured in the photoelectric effect are the opposing potentials needed to stop the most energetic electrons.

Einstein’s Theory

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X-Ray Production An energetic electron passing through matter will radiate photons and lose kinetic

energy which is called bremsstrahlung, from the German word for “braking radiation.” Since linear momentum must be conserved, the nucleus absorbs very little energy, and it is ignored. The final energy of the electron is determined from the conservation of energy to be

An electron that loses a large amount of energy will produce an X-ray photon. Current passing through a filament produces copious numbers of electrons by thermionic emission. These electrons are focused by the cathode structure into a beam and are accelerated by potential differences of thousands of volts until they impinge on a metal anode surface, producing x rays by bremsstrahlung as they stop in the anode material.

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Inverse Photoelectric Effect.

Conservation of energy requires that the electron kinetic energy equal the maximum photon energy where we neglect the work function because it is normally so small compared to the potential energy of the electron. This yields the Duane-Hunt limit which was first found experimentally. The photon wavelength depends only on the accelerating voltage and is the same for all targets.

Let’s have 10 – 50 keV, very short wavelengths, very energetic photons

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Bragg’s law

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No way !!!

Just a relativistic collision between a mass less particle

and a massive particle.

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Compton Effect

When a photon enters matter, it is likely to interact with one of the atomic electrons. The photon is scattered from only one electron, rather than from all the electrons in the material, and the laws of conservation of energy and momentum apply as in any elastic collision between two particles. The momentum of a particle moving at the speed of light is

The electron energy can be written as

This yields the change in wavelength of the scattered photon which is known as the Compton effect:

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X-Ray Scattering, modern crystallography Max von Laue suggested that if x rays were a form of

electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths on the 0.1 nm scale, interference effects should be observed for a crystal, which can be thought of as a 3D diffraction grating.

Friedrich and Knipping did the experiments and modern crystallography was born !!! Almost all of of our knowledge of atomic structures comes from such (and electron and neutron) diffraction experiments

55No problem, Bohr’s complementarily

Taoism” Taijitu (literally

"diagram of the supreme

ultimate"

Wave – particle duality, “wavical”

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Dual nature of quantum mechanical objectsboth/neither particle and/nor wave

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J. J. Thomson’s “plum-pudding” model of the atom had the positive charges spread uniformly throughout a sphere the size of the atom, with electrons embedded in the uniform background.

In J. J. Thomson’s view, when the atom was heated, the electrons could vibrate about their equilibrium positions, thus producing electromagnetic radiation.

Thomson’s Atomic Model

Not quite, electrons repulse each other

as much as possible but what is the

dough?

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More experiments, looking at large

angles where one would not expect any

scattering to show up, BUT …

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There is no dough, just lots and lots of empty space and a tiny tiny

heavy nucleus where all of the positive charges

reside.

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Planetary model of the atom would not work on the basis of

classical physics, would not explain why atoms are forever,

when a molecule breaks up, the atoms are just as before

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Angular momentum must be quantized in

nature in units of h-bar, from that

follows quantization of

energy levels ….

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Can all be explained from Bohr’s model as he puts physical meaning to the

Rydberg equation.

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Bohr’s second paper in 1913. There should be shells, idea basically

correct, helps explaining basic chemistry

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The Correspondence Principle

Need a principle to relate the new modern results with classical ones. Mathematically: h -> 0 or quantum number to infinity

Classical electrodynamicsBohr’s atomic model with stationary orbits

Determine the nature of spectral lines

Bohr’s correspondence principle

In the limits where classical and quantum theories should agree, the quantum theory must reduce the classical result.

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Bohr’s third paper in 1913

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Characteristic X-Ray Spectra and Moseley’s law (kind of rules only when generalized)

Shells have letter names:

K shell for n = 1

L shell for n = 2

The atom is most stable in its ground state.

When it occurs in a heavy atom, the radiation emitted is an X ray photon.

It has the energy E (X ray) = Eu − Eℓ.

after an inner electron has been kicked out by some process, an electron from higher shells will fill the inner-shell vacancy at lower energy.

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Atomic Number Z, X-ray spectroscopy on the basis of the characteristic X-rays

L shell to K shell Kα x ray

M shell to K shell Kβ x ray

Atomic number Z = number of protons in the nucleus. Moseley found a relationship between the frequencies of the

characteristic x ray and Z.

This holds for the Kα x ray.

Explanation on the basis of Bohr’s model for H and shielding for all other atoms !!!!

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Moseley’s Results support Bohr’s ideas for all tested atoms The x ray is produced from n = 2 to n = 1 transition.

In general, the K series of x ray wavelengths are

Moseley’s research clarified the importance of the electron shells for all the elements, not just for hydrogen.

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Frank-Hertz experiment

Accelerating voltage is below 5 V.

electrons did not lose energy as they are scattered elastically at the much heavier Hg atoms.

Accelerating voltage is above 5 V.

sudden drop in the current because there is now inelastic scattering instead. Hg atoms “take in” energy, and radiate it off again, effect is analogous to spectral lines

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There are also matter waves, not only classical and electromagnetic waves !!!

Wave particle duality for matter leads us into quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics ….

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= 32 ao

Instantaneous (linear) momentum is quantized

as well in a bound system

momentum =

h / wavelength

for particles with mass as well, not only

photons

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5.3: Electron Scattering

Davisson and Germer experimentally observed that low energy electrons were diffracted much like x rays in nickel crystals.

George P. Thomson (1892–1975), son of J. J. Thomson, build a transmission electron diffraction camera experiments to observe the diffraction of high energy electrons. The first target was celluloid, and soon after that gold, aluminum, and platinum were used. The randomly oriented polycrystalline sample of SnO2 produces rings as shown in the figure at right. a single

quasi crystal

Polycrystalline material

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TEM

One operation mode is transmission diffraction,

there is also electron energy loss spectroscopy and X-ray spectroscopy

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SEM

Short wavelength and nearly parallel fine electron beam

results in large depth of focus, SEM

images “appear” almost three-dimensional

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One full cycle for envelop wave = 2 pi

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Wave Packet Envelope

The superposition of two waves yields a wave number and angular frequency of the wave packet envelope.

The range of wave numbers and angular frequencies that produce the wave packet have the following relations:

A Gaussian wave packet has similar relations:

The localization of the wave packet over a small region to describe a particle requires a large range of wave numbers. Conversely, a small range of wave numbers cannot produce a wave packet localized within a small distance.

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Mathematical uncertainties

Heisenberg's uncertainties

Modern physics backed up by experiments

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Since the uncertainty principle is really a statement about accuracy rather than precision, there is a kind of “systematic rest error” that

cannot be corrected for

in classical physics this is simply ignored as things are

large in comparison to electrons, atoms, molecules,

nano-crystals …

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Probability, Wave Functions, and the Copenhagen Interpretation

The square of the wave function determines the likelihood (or probability) of finding a particle at a particular position in space at a given time.

The total probability of finding the electron is 1. Forcing this condition on the wave function is called normalization.

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dy for no particular reason, its just 1D dx

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The Copenhagen Interpretation Copenhagen’s interpretation of the wave function (quantum

mechanics in its final and current form) consisted of 3 (to 4) principles:

1) The complementarity principle of Bohr2) The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg3) The statistical interpretation of Born, based on probabilities

determined by the wave function4) Bohr’s correspondence principle (for quantum mechanics being

reasonable

Together these concepts form a logical interpretation of the physical meaning of quantum theory. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, physics needs to make predictions on the outcomes of future experiments (measurement) on the basis of the theoretical analysis of previous experiments (measurements)

Physics is not about “the truth”, questions that cannot be answered by experiments (measurements) are meaningless to the modern physicist. Philosophers, priests, gurus, … can be asked these questions and often answer them. Problem: they tend to disagree …

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Particle in an infinitely deep Box, no potential energy to be considered

A particle of mass m is trapped in a one-dimensional box of width L. The particle is treated as a standing wave. It persist to exist just like a standing

wave. The box puts boundary conditions on the wave. The wave function must be zero

at the walls of the box and on the outside. In order for the probability of finding the particle to vanish at the walls, we must

have an integral number of half wavelengths in the box.

The energy of the particle is .

Putting these two relations together yields quantized energy:

Lowest energy state not zero.

There is a ground state energy, zero point energy, particles that are confined can never stand still, always move, no way to utilize this energy for mankind

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Probability of finding the Particle in a certain region of space

The probability of observing the particle between x and x + dx in each state is

Since there is dx, we need to integrate over the region we are interested in

All other observable quantities will be obtained by integrations as well.

Note that E0 = 0 is not a possible energy level, there is no quantum number n = 0, so E1 is ground state also called zero point energy if in a quantum oscillator

The concept of energy levels, as first discussed in the Bohr model, has surfaced in a natural way by using matter waves.

We analyze the same model in the next chapter with operators on wave functions and expectation value integrals (that tell us all there is to know)

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One cannot determine through which slit a single electron went and observe

an interference pattern at the same time: Feynman’s version of the

uncertainty priniple

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due to the uncertainty principle, we can only make statistical inferences

time dependent Helmholtz

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Given the wave particle duality, we need a new way of thinking.

The whole physical situation is described by a wave function (which is complex for a traveling matter wave).

If the particle is not free, it’s wave function need to account for the physical boundary conditions, which encode the nature of the physical problem.

To check if the wave function we came up with makes physical sense, we put it to the “Schrödinger equation test”. (It’s a test if our wave function

obeys the conservation of total energy (while ignoring rest energy and with that special relativity – if we need to include that, i.e. v > 0.01 c, we need to

make the Dirac equation test)

If our wave function is OK, we can calculate anything we are allowed to know (given the uncertainty principle) about the

quantum mechanical system from it.

So the first part of PH 312 is all about how to do these things