| PHYS 544 - ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS II |
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| Semester: | Spring 2008 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
| Office Hours: | Tuesday | 12:40 - 13:30 | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Deniz Cakir | Office: SA-242 | ||
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 25% | 10:40, March 11 | SA-Z02 | |
| Second Exam | 25% | 10:40, April 22 | SA-Z02 | |
| Final Exam | 35% | ? | ? | |
| Homework | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| Tuesday | 10:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z02 | ||
| Thursday | 11:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z20 | ||
| 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 11:45, 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 | Review of angular momentum. Bell's inequality. Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics Time independent perturbation theory: The non-degenerate case Time independent perturbation theory: The degenerate case Exam. Variational Methods.#1 | Time dependent potentials. Time dependent perturbation theory. Applications. Identical particles. Identical particles. Exam. Scattering theory.#2 Scattering theory. Partial waves. Applications. (No class - follow wednesday schedule on tuesday) | |
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