| 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 |
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| 9 |
Oct 16 | The
Theory of angular momentum |
hw8 | |
| 10 |
Oct 23 |
Masers, magnetic resonance |
lec14 Townes Nobel Lecture |
hw9 |
| 11 |
Oct 30 |
lec15 | hw10 |
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| 12 |
Nov 6 |
EPR | lec16 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (1935) J.S. Bell (1966) mermin-physics-today38-4 |
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| 13 |
Nov 13 |
Coherent States | lec17 coherent state annimation |
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| 14 |
Nov 20 Thanksgiving (23-24) |
lec18 |
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| 15 |
Nov 27 | Identical
Particles |
hw11 | |
| 16 |
Dec 4 |
lec 20 solar-neutrino-problem.pdf |
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| Dec 11 Finals Week |
Final |
