Syllabus, Fall 2012
Subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
Lectures: MWF 10:30-11:20 a.m., in room CB 205.
Homework will usually consist of
one assignment per week, as shown below. It is due on Tuesdays. A
portion of every other Tuesday will be dedicated to discussion of
the homework assignments. Your presentation of the assignment
will affect the grade for homework and participation.
On dates highlighted by bold numbers we have discussions of
homework (usually two assignments)
| Day | Date | Topic | Problem assignment | Due date for assignment |
| Friday | 8/24/12 | Lecture 1: Historical
background for QM, Superposition pinciple and absolute size |
Quiz0 | 8/26/12 |
| Monday | 8/27/12 | Lecture 2: Kets, Bras,
Operators and Eigenvalue problem |
HW1 | |
| Wednesday | 8/29/12 | Lecture 3: Eigenvalue
problem, Linear Operators |
9/03/12 | |
| Friday | 8/31/12 | Lecture 4: Free
particle, Wave Packets, Commutator , |
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| Monday | 9/03/12 | deadline
for registration 09/04/12 Lecture 5: Uncertainty Priciple, Shrödinger Equation |
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| Wednesday | 9/05/12 | |||
| Friday | 9/07/12 | Lecture 6: Shrödinger Equation for PIB, | ||
| Monday | 9/10/12 | Lecture 7: Shrödinger Equation for a particle in a finite box | ||
| Wednesday | 9/12/12 | Lecture 8: Shrödinger
Equation for d-potential, Scattering |
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| Friday | 9/14/12 | Lecture 9: Harmonic
oscillator, Last day to drop with W |
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| Monday | 9/17/12 | Lecture 10: Harmonic oscillator | ||
| Wednesday | 9/19/12 | Lecture 11: Matrix Representation, | ||
| Friday | 9/21/12 | |||
| Monday | 9/24/12 | Lecture 12: 3D systems, Rigid Rotator | ||
| Wednesday | 9/26/12 | Lecture 13: Spherical Well, Hydrogen Atom | ||
| Friday | 9/28/12 | Lecture 14: Angular momentum | ||
| Monday | 10/01/12 | |||
| Wednesday | 10/03/12 | Lecture 15: Angular momentum and Spin | ||
| Friday | 10/05/12 | Midterm 1, Take home - includes all up to Lecture .. | ||
| Monday | 10/08/12 | Lecture 16: Adding angular momenta | ||
| Wednesday | 10/10/12 | Lecture 17: Approximate Methods I | ||
| Friday | 10/12/12 | Lecture 18: Approximate Methods II | ||
| Monday | 10/15/12 | Lecture 19:
Approximate Methods III Variational method; |
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| Wednesday | 10/17/12 | Lecture 20 Hand He atoms | ||
| Friday | 10/19/12 | |||
| Monday | 10/22/12 | Lecture 21 Multielectron atoms | ||
| Wednesday | 10/24/12 | Lecture 22-23 Time Dependent Perturbations | ||
| Friday | 10/26/12 | |||
| Monday | 10/29/12 | |||
| Wednesday | 10/31/12 | |||
| Friday | 11/02/12 | |||
| Monday | 11/05/12 | Lecture 23-24 Absorption and Emission of Radiation | ||
| Wednesday | 11/07/12 | Lecture 25 Molecular Hydrogen and its Ion | ||
| Friday | 11/09/12 | Exam 3, Final, 10:30-12:30 in class | ||
| Monday | 11/12/12 | Grades Turn in. | ||
| Wednesday | 11/14/12 | |||
| Friday | 11/16/12 | Midterm 2, in class | ||
| Monday | 11/19/12 | Thanksgiving Holidays | ||
| Wednesday | 11/21/12 | Thanksgiving Holidays | ||
| Friday | 11/23/12 | Thanksgiving Holidays | ||
| Monday | 11/26/12 | |||
| Wednesday | 11/28/12 | |||
| Friday | 11/30/12 | |||
| Monday | 12/03/12 | |||
| Wednesday | 12/05/12 | |||
| Friday | 12/07/12 | |||
| Monday | 12/03/12 | |||
| Tuesday | 12/18/12 | Grades are due. |
*- You should read the material before coming to lecture. Splitting between the subchapters might not exactly correlate with the material covered during the lecture, thus it might be a good idea to read the whole chapter at once and adjust the review reading before each lecture.
Last updated on 05/11/12