| PHYS 543 - ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS I |
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| Semester: | Fall 2010 | |||
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| 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: | Ayse Yesil | 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. 21 | 15:40 - 17:30 (SA-Z18) | |
| Second Exam | 25% | Dec. 2 | 15:40 - 17:30 (SA-Z18) | |
| Final Exam | 35% | Jan. 11 | 12:15 - 14:15 (SA-Z18) | |
| Homework | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| First meeting: Thursday, Sept. 16, 15:40 - 17:30 in SA-Z18 | ||||
| Tuesdays | 13:40 - 15:30 | Room SA-Z18 | ||
| Thursdays | 15:40 - 16:30 | Room SA-Z18 | ||
| Make-up hour: | Thursdays | 16:40 - 17:30 | Room SA-Z18 | |
| 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.
| Week | Subject | Exam | Introduction (Thursday class only) Fundamental concepts: the bra-ket notation, measurements, observables, change of basis Position, momentum, translation; wave-fuctions Quantum Dynamics: Time evolution, Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures The harmonic oscillator#1 | Semiclassical Approximation, the WKB method (No Thursday class) Propagators and Path Integrals Gauge transformations Holiday - No classes Angular momentum, rotations, angular momentum eigenstates and eigenvalues Spin-1/2 systems, Bell's inequality#2 Orbital angular momentum Addition of angular momentum Density operators and mixed ensembles Symmetry in quantum mechanics, time reversal symmetry | |
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Some applets:
The MIT version of this course: