Week

Date

Topics covered

1

aug 24-28

Introduction, "old" quantum mechanics, Schroedinger's equation

2

aug 31 - 4

Schroedinger's equation, Born's interpretation

No HW due this week!

Last day to drop, friday 

3

sept 7-11

time-independent Schroedinger equation, particle in box

HW#1 due friday

4

sept 14-18

QM potential: harmonic osciillator, free particle, delta potential: binding and scattering, square-well potential

HW#2 due friday

5

sept 21-25

QM potential: delta potential, square well potential, tunneling, resonances

HW#3 due friday

6

sept 28-2

Axoms of QM: Hermitian operator, Hilbert space, discrete and continuous eigen spectrum, measurement process

HW#4 due friday

7

oct 5-9

uncertainty principle, Ehrenfest theorem, symmetries and conservation laws

no HW due this week

EXAM1: Friday, Oct 9

8

oct 12-16

QM in 3 dimensions: angular and radial wave equation, infinite well problem, H-atom

HW#5 due friday

9

oct 19-23

degeneracy, angular momentum, commutators, 

HW#6 due friday

10

oct 26-30

spin, spin measurement, electron in magnetic field

HW#7 due friday

Last day to withdraw, friday

11

nov 2-6

addition of angular momentum, time-independent perturbation theory (TIP)

HW#8 due friday

12

nov 9-13

TIP (degenerate case) + examples

H-atom: relativistic corrections (T, SO), presence of magnetic field

No HW due this week

EXAM2: Friday, Nov 13

13

nov 16-20

identical particles: bosons, fermions, Pauli principle, atoms + periodic table

HW#9 due friday

14

nov 23-27

time-dependent perturbation theory and examples

No HW due this week 

Finally!!!!!!! Thanksgiving break: Nov  25-27

15

nov 30-4

Einstein's equations, Laser, transition rules, Planck's BB radiation

HW#10 due WEDNESday

Last day of instruction: Dec 4

16

dec 7-11

FINAL: Friday Dec 11, 10:15am-12:15    ...... GOOD SUCCESS .......