Schedule for Physics 521

(updated frequently during the semester)


Week Beginning
Topics lecture notes HW, exams, Solutions
1
Aug 21
Math preliminaries. Classical preliminaries.
lec1
lec2
hw1
hw1-solutions.pdf
 recitation1.pdf
recitation1-solutions.pdf
2
Aug 28
Classical probability. Postulates.
lec3
lec4
hw2
hw2-solutions.pdf
recitation2.pdf
recitation2-solutions.pdf
3
Sept 4
photon, electron spin. 
density matrix
file:///Users/gold/GOOGLE1/teach/521/hw2-solutions.pdf
lec5 
density-matrix.pdf

Weinberg, "The Trouble With Quantum Mechanics"
hw3
hw3-solutions.pdf
recitation3.pdf
recitation3-solutions.pdf
4
Sept 11
uncertainty principles.  Schrodinger equation for wave function.
lec6   lec7
quantum zeno

hw4
hw4-solutions.pdf
recitation4.pdf
recitation4-solutions.pdf
5
 Sept 18
simple 1D problems.
lec8
bouncing neutrons
hw5
6
Sept 25  Simple Harmonic oscillator. lec9
hw6
7
Oct 2  Feynman Path Integral
lec10
aharonov-bohm.pdf
aharonov-bohm-dephasing (Nature 1998)
buckyball-decoherence.pdf
hw7 
8
Oct 9
Fall Break
(Oct 12,13)
 Discrete symmetries
lec11 

 
9
Oct 16 The Theory of angular momentum
 

lec12
lec13
CG Table

hw8
10
Oct 23
Masers, magnetic resonance
lec14

Townes Nobel Lecture

hw9
11
Oct 30


lec15 hw10
 
12
Nov 6
EPR  lec16

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (1935)
J.S. Bell (1966)
mermin-physics-today38-4

13
Nov 13
Coherent States  lec17
coherent state annimation

14
Nov 20
Thanksgiving (23-24)


lec18


15
Nov 27 Identical Particles

hw11
16
Dec 4



lec 20 


solar-neutrino-problem.pdf



Dec 11  Finals Week

 Final