Programme

INTRODUCTION: THE WORLD AT THE NANOSCALE. SPECTROSCOPY. EMISSION AND ABSORPTION SPECTRA. SPECTRAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION. THE BLACK-BODY RADIATION AND THE PLANCK’S SOLUTION. THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT: PHENOMENOLOGY AND EINSTEIN’S INTERPRETATION. ATOM MODELS. BOHR’S POSTULATES. ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS. THE DE BROGLIE WAVELENGTH, STATIONARY WAVES. INTRODUCTION TO THE WAVE FUNCTION. THE DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC DESCRIPTION OF MOTION. HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE. A PARTICLE CONFINED IN A SEGMENT. THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION IN 1D. STATIONARY STATES. A PARTICLE CONFINED IN A SEGMENT REVISED. UNIDIMENSIONAL ENERGY POTENTIALS. MANY-PARTICLES WAVE FUNCTIONS. FERMIONS AND BOSONS. PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE. THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR A CENTRAL POTENTIAL. QUANTUM NUMBERS. THE SPIN. DIPOLE SELECTION RULES. THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE. HUND`S PRINCIPLE. THE PERIODIC TABLE. ELECTRON AFFINITY AND ELETTRONEGATIVITY. IONIC AND COVALENT BONDS. MOLECULAR ORBITALS. ROTATIONAL AND VIBRATIONAL ENERGY IN DIATOMIC MOLECULES. HYBRIDIZATION AND POLYATOMIC MOLECULES. INTRODUCTION TO THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE IN SOLIDS. BINDING ENERGY IN SOLIDS. CLASSICAL THEORY OF CONDUCTIVITY. THE FERMI DISTRIBUTION. ENERGY BANDS. CONDUCTORS, INSULATORS, AND SEMICONDUCTIRS. DOPED SEMICONDUCTORS. BASICS OF LASER.

Core Documentation

TESTI: PAUL A. TIPLER : “CORSO DI FISICA” VOL. 3 ED. ZANICHELLI, TERZA EDIZIONE ITALIANA
PAUL A. TIPLER, GENE MOSCA: “CORSO DI FISICA” VOL. 3 ED. ZANICHELLI, QUARTA EDIZIONE ITALIANA
handouts distributed by the teacher

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures in classroom videoprojection-aided

Type of evaluation

Multiple choice written test, oral examination