Phys 543 Advanced Quantum Mechanics I

Bilkent University Department of Physics

PHYS 543 - ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Course Schedule:
Semester:	Fall 2009
Instructor:	Cemal Yalabik
Office:	Room SA-228
Office Hours:	Tuesdays	15:40 - 16:30 catch me after class	Room SA-228
	All other times	(if available - call 1316 to check)	Room EA-G11
Assistant:	Basak Renklioglu	Phone: 2149	Room SA-203
Homework:	Policy	Assignments
Exams & Grading:	(You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.)
	First Exam	25%	Oct. 12	17:40 - 19:30
	Second Exam	25%	Dec. 1	13:40 - 15:30 (SA-Z19)
	Final Exam	35%	Jan. 12	15:30 - 17:30 (SA-Z19)
	Homework	15%

	Tuesdays	13:40 - 15:30	Room SA-Z19
	Thursdays	15:40 - 16:30	Room SA-Z19
Make-up hour:	Thursdays	16:40 - 17:30	Room SA-Z19

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 15:45, in class, before class starts.

You can view your grades through the Stars system.

Introduction
(Thursday class only) Fundamental concepts: the bra-ket notation, measurements, observables, change of basis Position, momentum, translation; wave-fuctions
(No class Tuesday) Quantum Dynamics: Time evolution, Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures The harmonic oscillator
Schrodinger wave equation Semiclassical Approximation, the WKB method Propogators and Path Integrals
(No class Thursday) Gauge transformations Angular momentum, rotations, angular momentum eigenstates and eigenvalues Spin-1/2 systems, Bell's inequality No Classes Orbital angular momentum

Week		Subject	Exam	#1	#2 Addition of angular momentum Density operators and mixed ensembles Symmetry in quantum mechanics Time reversal symmetry (Tuesday class only)

Some applets:

The MIT version of this course: