Historic Experiments

• Rutherford scattering
• Davisson-Germer experiment

Blackbody radiation

• shorter wavelength from an object in the sky means?
• what new result came from Planck's blackbody work?
• light bulb as a black body
• Rayleigh-Jeans and Planck blackbody formulas examined

Compton

• what was conserved in deriving the compton formula?
• derivation of the compton formula in Maple
• discuss other features of compton effect

deBroglie

• scattering by photons and electrons at same angle from same crystal means?

Bohr

Schrodinger equation / atomic orbitals

• create legendre polynomials
• Schrodinger equation for a particle in a 1-D box of length L
• density plot of a p-shell orbital
• plots of s, p, and d orbitals

Tunneling

• wave packet penetrating a barrier
• barrier penetration exercise

Uncertainty

• uncertainty principle exercise

Relativity

Nuclear

• Geiger tube counting, dead time, and poisson statistics