STRUCTURE OF MATTER

The course has the aim of describing the most important experiments and models that allowed the birth of modern physics and quantum mechanics.

Electrons & Photons: Millikan experiments - photoelectric effect - Compton effect - blackbody radiation - X-ray diffraction

Atoms: Brownian motion, Rutherford scattering, Bohr atom, Schroedinger equation - De Broglie wavelength - Incertainty principle - tunnel effect - Hydrogen atom - Helium atom - Spin - Complex atoms

Molecules: Bi-atomic molecules - Born Oppenheimer approximation - Raman effect

Quantum statistics: Fermi-Dirac statistics - Bose Einstein statistics - Fermi gas - Bose-Einstein condensation

[1] J. J. Brehm e W. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter, John Wiley (1989).

[2] R. Eisberg e R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids & Nuclei, J. Wiley

[3] G. Herzberg, Spettri atomici e struttura atomica, Boringhieri

[4] W. Demtroeder, Atoms, moleculs and photons, Springer

[5] C. Kittel e H. Kroemer, Termodinamica Statistica, Boringhieri