Instructor: Prof. Chris Greene, JILA S324,
x2-4770, chris.greene___at___colorado.edu
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Class lectures: MWF, 11:00-11:50 pm,
Duane G-2B60
Grading rubric: 33% homework (due approximately every 1 or two weeks); 7% in-class quizzes; 25% Midterm Exam; 35% Final Exam given in Duane G-2B60 from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm on Saturday, Dec.12. The time and place of the midterm exam will be announced later.
Office Hours: 1:30-2:30 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, or informally or by appointment
Required text:
Kurt Gottfried and Tung-Mow Yan, Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals, (2nd Edition)
Recommended text:
J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (revised edition)
This page is http://fermion.colorado.edu/~chg/NewPages/body_this_semester.html
Grader:
Dr. Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, JILA Tower Office A904, Grader Office Hours: Wed.2-3:30pm
Tentative list of topics for the fall semester:
origins of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, review of classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
the postulates and basic theorems of quantum theory, pure versus impure quantum states, the density matrix
simple one-dimensional quantum systems: oscillator, particle-in-a-box, tunneling, etc., the Heisenberg uncertainty relations, operator methods for solving eigenvalue problems,
the path integral formulation,
more particles, more dimensions,
symmetry in quantum physics, angular momentum, parity,
the hydrogen atom
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