| Week
Beginning |
Topics | lecture notes | HW, exams, Solutions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Aug 22 |
essential ideas basics of classical statistics G, Ch 1 |
lec1 lec2 recitation-1.pdf recitation-1-solutions.pdf |
hw1.pdf hw1-solutions |
| 2 |
Aug 29 |
review of 1D Schrodinger
Equation 1D bound states G, Ch 2 |
lec3
lec5 recitation-2.pdf recitation-2-solutions.pdf |
hw2.pdf hw2a: 2.1,2.5,2.6,2.10 hw2a solutions |
| 3 |
Sept 5 |
scattering,
tunneling |
lec6
lec7 recitation-3.pdf recitation-3-solutions.pdf |
rest of hw2: 2.22,2.26, 2.30, 2.34, 2.46 |
| 4 |
Sept 12 |
Linear Algebra for QM G, Ch 3 |
lec4 recitation-4.pdf recitation-4-solutions.pdf |
hw2 solutions |
| 5 |
Sept 19 |
spin of the electron T Ch 1 |
lec8 recitation-5.pdf recitation-5-solutions.pdf |
hw3: T ch1: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 hw3 solutions.pdf |
| 6 |
Sept 26 no class Mon. Rosh Hashana 5778 | spinors, rotations, photons T Ch 2 |
lec9 recitation-6.pdf recitation-6-solutions.pdf |
hw4: T ch 2: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 |
| 7 |
Oct 3 no class Wed. Oct 5 Yom Kippur | theory of angular momentum T Ch 3 |
lec10 recitation-7.pdf recitation-7-solutions.pdf |
hw5 more
from chapter 2 hw4-solutions.pdf |
| 8 |
Oct 10 Fall Break (Oct 13,14) |
photon spin rotation group and representations Wed. Oct 12 Exam 1 |
lec11 lec12 |
hw6 chapter 3 hw5-solutions.pdf exam #1 Wed, Oct. 12 |
| 9 |
Oct 17 | Dynamics T Ch. 4 |
lec13 |
hw7 4.2,4.3,4.4,4.6,4.8 |
| 10 |
Oct 24 |
The ammonia molecule |
ammonia moledule lec14 Townes Nobel Lecture feature-- muon magnetic moment feature-- functional nmr magnetic moment recitation-9.pdf recitation-9-solutions.pdf |
hw8
4.9,4.12,4.13,4.14,4.16 hw6-solutions.pdf |
| 11 |
Oct 31 |
Masers, magnetic resonance Friday. Nov. 4 Exam 1A |
recitation-10.pdf recitation-10-solutions.pdf |
hw9.pdf hw7-solutions.pdf |
| 12 |
Nov 7 |
multiparticle states T Ch 5 |
lec15 CG Table rrecitation-11.pdf recitation-11-solutions.pdf |
|
| 13 |
Nov 14 |
EPR Wave Mechanics Recovered T Ch 6 |
EPR, hidden variables, Bell lec16 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (1935) J.S. Bell (1966) mermin-physics-today38-4 EPR-and_Relativity recitation-12.pdf recitation-12-solutions.pdf wave mechanics revisited lec17 |
hw8-solutions.pdf |
| 14 |
Nov 21 Thanksgiving (24-27) | Wed Nov. 24 Test II Review |
hw 10 ch 6: 1,2,3,8,15,16,18,25 | |
| 15 |
Nov 28 | HW 9 due Monday Simple Harmonic Oscillator T Ch 7 |
harmonic oscillator lec18
density matrix |
hw9-solutions.pdf hw 11 ch 7: 2,4,7,8,12,13 ch 8: 1, 3,6 |
| 16 |
Dec 5 |
HW 10 due monday Density Matrix, Coherent States or Feynman Path Integral if time permits T Ch 8 review_for_final |
Coherent-States
(lec19)) coherent state annimation propogator (lec 20) FPI (lec21) aharonov-bohm-dephasing (Nature 1998) aharonov-bohm.pdf buckyball-decoherence.pdf |
hw10-solutions.pdf coherent-state-worksheet coherent-state-solutions hw11-solutions.pdf |
| Dec 12 Finals Week |
HW 11 due monday Final is Wed dec 14, 3-5 PM |
