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INTRODUCTION: THE WORLD AT THE NANOSCALE. SPECTROSCOPY: ABSORPTION AND EMISSION. SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTIONS. BLACK BODY RADIATION AND THE PLANCK EQUATION. THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT: PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF EINSTEIN. ATOMIC MODELS. BOHR'S POSTULATES. ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS. DE BROGLIE’S HYPOTHESIS, STATIONARY WAVES. INTRODUCTION TO THE WAVE FUNCTION. DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILITY DESCRIPTION OF THE MOTION. HEISENBERG'S INDETERMINATION PRINCIPLE. THE PARTICLE CONFINED IN A SEGMENT. ONE DIMENSIONAL SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION. STATIONARY STATES. THE PARTICLE CONFINED IN A SEGMENT REVISITED. ONE-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIALS. WAVE FUNCTION OF MANY PARTICLES. FERMIONS AND BOSONS (MENTION). FERMI DISTRIBUTION (MENTION). PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE. SCHRÖDINGER'S EQ. FOR A CENTRAL POTENTIAL. THE QUANTUM NUMBERS. THE SPIN. DIPOLE SELECTION RULES. THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE. THE HUND’S PRINCIPLE. THE PERIODIC TABLE. AFFINITY AND ELECTRONEGATIVITY. IONIC BOND AND COVALENT BOND. THE MOLECULAR ORBITALS. ROTATIONAL AND VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES OF BIATOMIC MOLECULES. HYBRIDIZATION AND POLYATOMIC MOLECULES. INTRODUCTION TO THE CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE OF SOLIDS. BINDING ENERGY IN SOLIDS. THE ENERGY BANDS. CONDUCTORS, INSULATORS AND SEMICONDUCTORS. LINEAR OPTICS. ABSORPTION AND EMISSION: LUMINESCENCE: FLUORESCENCE AND PHOSPHORESCENCE. THE COLOR: RADIATION-MATTER INTERACTION. PRINCIPLE OF LASER OPERATION. HE-NE, AR + ION AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER.

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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
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