| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||
| 03/30 | Review of hydrogenic atoms.(notes) | ||||
| 04/01 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave.(notes) | HW 1 (solutions) | |||
| 04/03 | Absorption and emission. (notes) | <WS 1 | |||
| 04/06 | Stimulated and spontaneous emission.(notes) | WS 2 | |||
| 04/08 | no class: will be scheduling a make-up | ||||
| 04/10 | Spontaneous emission in the electric dipole approximation. (see notes for 04/03 and 04/06) | HW 2(solutions) | WS 3 | For Problem 1 of HW 2 | |
| 04/13 | Selection rules.(notes) | ||||
| 04/15 | Line shapes and widths. (notes) | HW 3(solutions) | WS 4 | Photon orbital ang. mom. for electric quadrupole transitions | |
| 04/17 | Line shapes and widths (ctd.) (see notes for 04/15) | WS 5 | |||
| 04/20 | Helium atom.(notes) | HW 4(solutions) | WS 6 | Hansch Nobel lecture (for HW 4) | |
| 04/22 | Helium atom (ctd).(notes) | WS 7 | 1st observation of doubly-excited states of He | ||
| 04/24 | Many-electron atoms. (notes) | WS 8 | |||
| 04/27 | The central field approximation. (see notes posted on 04/24) | WS 9 | |||
| 04/29 | The periodic table.(notes) | WS 10 | |||
| 05/01 | L-S and j-j coupling.(notes) | HW 5(solutions) | WS 11 | ||
| 05/04 | L-S and j-j coupling (ctd.)(see notes from 05/01) | ||||
| 05/06 | Interaction of many-electron atom with EM field.(notes) | WS 12 | |||
| 05/08 | Midterm (10 am, Weniger 328) | ||||
| 05/11 | Molecular structure. (notes) | HW 6(solutions) | |||
| 05/13 | Molecular structure:symmetries. (notes) | ||||
| 05/15 | Molecular rotations and vibrations. (notes) | Ground state of hydrogen molecule | |||