QUANTUM MECHANICS II
Preliminary lecture schedule
COURSE WEB SITE: http://www.physics.udel.edu/~msafrono/425-2008.html
Course Instructor: Prof.
Marianna Safronova
Syllabus: PHYS 425 - Fall
2008
Office hours:
Tuesday, Thursday
Thursday
214 Sharp Lab
Note: all quizzes are on
Thursdays
Weeks 1, 2 September 4, 9 Review of 424 material
Postulates
of quantum mechanics, problem solving,
Review of the addition of the angular momentum
Week 3 September 16, 18 Two-particle systems, Atoms
Homework # 1 (due September 25)
No
quiz
Week 3 September 22*, 23, 25 Solids, Quantum
Statistical Mechanics
Homework # 2
(still due October 2 – put in instructor’s mailbox)
Quiz #1
Make up
lecture on Monday (
Week 4 September 29*, 30 Perturbation theory
Homework # 3 (due October 9)
No
quiz
CHANGE IN
LECTURE SCHEDULE –
no lecture or office hours on Thursday, October 2
Make up
lecture on Monday, September 29 (
Week 5 October 7, 9 Perturbation theory: examples
Homework # 4 (due October 16)
Quiz
#2
Week 6 October 14 Midterm # 1 (Material on homeworks
1-3)
October 16 Perturbation theory, problem solving
Homework # 5 (due October 23)
NO
QUIZ
Week 7 October 21, 23 The variational principle
Homework # 6 (due October 30)
Quiz
#3
Week 8 October 28, 30 The WKB approximation
Homework
# 7 (due November 6)
Quiz
#4
NOTE: NO LECTURE ON
NOVEMBER 4 : ELECTION DAY
Week 9 November 6 Time-dependent perturbation theory
No
homework: prepare for Midterm 2
Quiz #
5
Week 10 November 11 MIDTERM #2 (Homeworks 4-7)
November 13 Review of midterm, problem solving
Homework # 8 (due November 20)
No
quiz
Week 11 November 18, 20 Time-dependent perturbation theory
Homework
# 9 (NOTE: due December 4)
Quiz # 6
Week 12 November 25 Scattering
No lecture November 27 – Thanksgiving break
Week 13 December 2 Scattering
December 4 Short introduction into Quantum Information
Homework # 10
(Due December 10 – put in my mailbox,
pick up solutions on December 11)
Quiz
#7
Week 14 December 9 Course
Review