| PHYS 543 - ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS I |
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| Semester: | Fall 2011 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays | 12:40 - 13:30 catch me after class | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Phone: ? | Room SA-2?? | ||
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 25% | Oct. 27 | 17:40 - 19:30 (SA-Z18) | |
| Second Exam | 25% | Dec. 16 | 8:40 - 10:30 (SA-Z19) | |
| Final Exam | 35% | Jan. 12 | 9:00 - 11:00 (SA-Z01) | |
| Homework | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| First meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 27, 10:40 - 12:30 in SA-Z18 | ||||
| Tuesdays | 10:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Fridays | 9:40 - 10:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Make-up hour: | Fridays | 8:40 - 9:30 | 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 Friday of the following week at 9:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Stars system.
| Week | Subject | Exam | 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 Holiday - No classes Propagators and Path Integrals Gauge transformations 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: