| PHYS 543 - ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS I |
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| Semester: | Fall 2008 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
| Office Hours: | Thursdays | 12:40 - 13:30 catch me after class | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Rasim Ovali | Office: SA-207 | ||
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 25% | Oct. 23 | 10:40 - 12:30 | |
| Second Exam | 25% | Dec. 4 | 10:40 - 12:30 | |
| Final Exam | 35% | Jan. 16 | 12:15 - 14:15 (SA-Z04) | |
| Homework | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| Tuesdays | 8:40 - 10:30 | Room SA-Z02 | ||
| Thursdays | 10:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z02 | ||
| Textbook: | ||||
| Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai | ||||
Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Homework is due on the Thursday of the following week at 10:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Student BAIS system. You are also encouraged to discuss course related matters in the "student-forum" for this course at the same address.
| Week | Subject | Exam | Fundamental concepts: the bra-ket notation, measurements, observables, change of basis Position, momentum, translation; wave-fuctions Holiday - no classes Quantum Dynamics: Time evolution, Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures The harmonic oscillator#1 | Semiclassical Approximation, the WKB method Propogators and Path Integrals#2
Holiday - no classes
Addition of angular momentum
Density operators and mixed ensembles
Symmetry in quantum mechanics (No class on Thursday) Time reversal symmetry (Last class on Tuesday, follow Thursday schedule) | |
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Some applets:
The MIT version of this course: