| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||
| 03/31 | Review of hydrogenic atoms.(notes) | ||||
| 04/02 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave.(notes) | HW 1 (solutions) | |||
| 04/04 | Absorption and emission. (notes) | <WS 1 | |||
| 04/07 | Stimulated and spontaneous emission.(notes) | WS 2 | |||
| 04/09 | no class: will be scheduling a make-up | ||||
| 04/11 | Spontaneous emission in the electric dipole approximation. | HW 2(solutions) | For Problem 1 of HW 2 | ||
| 04/14 | Selection rules.(notes) | WS 3 | |||
| 04/16 | Line shapes and widths. (notes) | HW 3(solutions) | WS 4 | Photon orbital ang. mom. for electric quadrupole transitions | |
| 04/18 | Two-electron atoms.(notes) | WS 5 | |||
| 04/21 | Helium atom.(notes) | HW 4(solutions) | WS 6 | Hansch Nobel lecture (for HW 4) | |
| 04/23 | Helium atom (ctd). | WS 7 | 1st observation of doubly-excited states of He | ||
| 04/25 | Many-electron atoms. The central field approximation.(notes) | WS 8 | 04/28 | The periodic table.(notes) | WS 9 |
| 04/30 | L-S and j-j coupling.(notes) | HW 5(solutions) | WS 10 | ||
| 04/30 (make-up; Weniger 377 at 4 pm) | L-S and j-j coupling (ctd). | ||||
| 05/02 | Interaction of many-electron atom with EM field.(notes) | WS 11 | |||
| 05/05 | Midterm (2 pm, Weniger 304) | ||||
| 05/07 | Molecular structure. (notes) | HW 6(solutions) | |||
| 05/09 | Molecular structure:symmetries. (notes) | ||||
| 05/12 | Molecular rotations and vibrations. (notes) | Ground state of hydrogen molecule | |||
| 05/14 | Molecular spectroscopy. | HW 7(solutions) | WS 12 | ||
| 05/16 | Molecular spectroscopy (ctd.). | WS 13 | |||
| 05/19 | Intro to laser physics.(notes) Two- vs four-level system. | HW 8(solutions) | Presentation rubric | ||
| 05/21 | Cavity modes.Typical lasers.Pulsed lasers.(notes) | ||||