Friday, March 8, 2013
What would you like to see on the final?
The goal of this post is to get a sense of what you would like to see on the final, as well as what you might not like to see. Your comments do not have to be in the form of full detailed questions. They can just be brief mention of what sort of problems, what areas, you think should be covered on the final (and what should not be). Feel free to share your reasoning or not. Either way I would be very interested in your thoughts on this important question.
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Hydrogen atom, spin, molecules, semiconductors
ReplyDeleteCalculating expectation values?
ReplyDeleteexpectation values, and p-n junctions, perhaps a problem that asks us to explain how a p-n junction works and emits light,
ReplyDeleteYes:
ReplyDeleteP-N Junction conceptual / calculations
Semiconductors (doping,electron velocity, photon emission rate/wavelength)
length scales ... i.e minimizing energy.
hydrogen states (Graphing , wavefunctions, expectation values, time dependence)
Fine structure energy corrections/groupings. Spin.
No:
Multiple wells - These lead into metals/semiconductors ( although perhaps a conceptual question asking how they relate could be interesting).
Harmonic oscillator - Covered quite a bit on the midterm.
Infinite/finite square well - Already did these on the midterm.
P-N Junctions, Multiple Well System,
ReplyDeletealso I think new stuff on graphene and superconductors should not be put on the final =) ! Best of luck to all!
ReplyDeleteI do not think we have spent enough time on graphene to put it on the exam, especially since we haven't had a lecture from you about it.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think should be on the exam: anything from the midterm, conduction band, calculating current in a semiconductor, spin and spectroscopy.
I agree on including, P-N junction problem. Something like a time dependence problem would be nice too because I gained a lot of appreciation for the nature of wavefunctions and the wave equation (before the relativistic corrections) when I understood how to do a time dependence problem.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see other things also, but I need a bit more time to see what...