PHY 344 -- Computational assignment
January 16, 2002
The purpose of this assignment is to complete an in-depth study an
quantum mechanics topic of interest to you. There will be no class
during the week of Mar. 18-22 because of the March APS meeting. This
will be a good time to work on this assignment.
Each student should prepare a 20-30 minute talk about their project to
share with the class. The talk should include:
- Motivation and discription of the project
- A discussion of the basic electrodynamic principles involved in the project
- A discussion of the main results
- Conclusions and outlook for additional work along these lines.
Suggestions for projects
- Appendix G of your text outlines a method for numerical solution
of the Schroedinger equation. You could implement this method using
one of several available programing languages and use it to study the
solutions of a few one-dimensional potential problems.
- Using the program graphatom or others, study the energies of several
different atoms in various electron configurations.
- More suggestions available by request.