Journal Club Presentations

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Identifying Several Periodic Systems (SWBQ, 10 minutes)
• Periodic Systems in Different Dimensions (Lecture, 5 minutes)
• Common Phenomena in Periodic Systems (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Emulating Waves in a Periodic System (Kinesthetic, 15 minutes)
• Definitions of Important Terms for This Unit (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Review of Differential Equations in Circuits (Lecture, 5 minutes)
• Single Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
• Two Coupled Oscillators (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Coupled Oscillators and the Monatomic Chain (P.S. Lab 1) (Integrated Laboratory, xx minutes)
• Approximating the N-th Normal Mode Frequency for an N-chain Oscillator (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Infinite Chain of One-Dimensional Atoms (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• The Diatomic Chain (P.S. Lab 2) (Integrated Laboratory, xx minutes)
• Infinite Chain of One-Dimensional Diatomic Molecules (Lecture, 40 minutes)
• The Optical and Acoustic Branches of an Infinite Diatomic Chain (Small groups, 10 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Recalling Heat Capacity (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
• Energy Magnitudes for Thermal Processes (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
• Using the Equipartition Theorem to Estimate Heat Capacity (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Specific Heat of a Sample of Water (SWBQ, 10 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Drawing Bound States (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
• Quantization of Energy in Mechanical Oscillators (Lecture, 15 minutes)
• Predicting the Phonon Number of an Oscillator (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
• Approximating the Internal Energy for a 1-D Chain (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Approximating the Internal Energy for a 3-D Lattice (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Differences Between Vibrating Atoms and Electrons in a Crystal (Lecture, 5 minutes)
• Energy Eigenstates of a Single Potential Well (Lecture, 5 minutes)
• Finding the Energy Eigenstates of a 2-Well System (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Showing Two Vectors are Eigenstates in a 2-Well System (SWBQ, 10 minutes)
• Solving for $\alpha$ and $\beta$ for the 2-well Case (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• The Periodic Finite Square Well Potential (P.S. Lab 3) (Integrated Laboratory, xx minutes)
• The Hamiltonian for an N-Well System (Lecture, 20 minutes)
• Finding the Energy Eigenstates of an N-Well System (Lecture, 40 minutes)
• Practice With a Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (SWBQ, 15 minutes)
• 9 Atomic Wells (Kinesthetic, 15 minutes)
• Periodic Boundary Conditions on Long Chains of Atoms (Lecture, 15 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Single Electron in a Crystal (Lecture, 15 minutes)
• Half-Filled Electron Band in a Crystal (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Filled Electron Band in a Crystal (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Effective Mass (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Homework

• Drawing Bound States
• Eigenstates of a Two Well System
• Energy Magnitudes for Thermal Systems
• Naming Types of Periodic Systems
• Practice with an LCAO
• Predicting the Phonon Number of an Oscillator
• Recalling Heat Capacity
• Single Simple Harmonic Oscillator
• Calculating Specific Heat