STRUCTURE OF MATTERModule FRONTAL TEACHING
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: Giuseppe Gioacchino Neil ANGILELLAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course has the aim of describing the most important experiments and models that allowed the birth of modern physics and quantum mechanics.
Course Structure
The course will be taught through lectures in the classroom and will take advantage of several excercises to better comprehend the different subjects.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism.
Attendance of Lessons
See Regulations of the BSc Programme in Physics.
Detailed Course Content
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 - Uncertainty 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
Textbook Information
- J. J. Brehm e W. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter, John Wiley (1989).
- R. Eisberg e R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids & Nuclei, J. Wiley
- G. Herzberg, Spettri atomici e struttura atomica, Boringhieri
- W. Demtroeder, Atoms, molecules and photons, Springer
- C. Kittel e H. Kroemer, Termodinamica Statistica, Boringhieri
- B. Cagnac, Modern Atomic Physics, J. Wiley
- B.H. Brandsen and C.J. Joachain, Physics of atoms and molecules, Longman Scientific & Technical
- A.P. French, E.F. Taylor, An Introduction to Quantum Physics, MIT Introductory Physics Series
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A basic knowledge of the arguments as presented e.g. in Brehm- Mullin is required | J. J. Brehm e W. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter, John Wiley (1989). |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Exams will have a written and an oral part.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Tutti gli argomenti del corso sono, in egual misura, oggetto di domanda.
Esempio di domanda 1: si descriva l'effetto fotoelettrico
Esempio di domanda 2: si descriva l'effetto Zeeman
Esempio di domanda 3: ricavare la statistica di Fermi-Dirac