[ Note: This schedule may change as the quarter develops ]
| Week |
Lectures |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 1 |
1-3 |
March 30 - April 3 | Waves, Particles, Wave-Particle Duality De Broglie Wavelength, Bohr Atom |
Chapter 1 |
| 2 |
4-6 |
April 6 - April 10 |
Magnetic Moments, Stern-Gerlach Experiment, state-vectors, pure-states, mixed states, matrix representations |
Chapter 7, 8.2 Assignment 1 Solution 1 |
| 3 |
7-9 |
April 13 - April 17 |
Operators, Linear operators, Parity, Eigenvalues
and Eigenvectors NO lecture Wednesday |
Chapter 2, 5 Assignment 2 Solution 2 |
| 4 |
10-12 |
April 20 - April 24 |
Hermitian operators, Measurement, Expectation
values, Schwarz Inequality, |
Chapter 8.8 Assignment 3 Solution 3 |
| 5 |
13-15 |
April 27 - May 01 |
Uncertainty principle, Continuous spectra,
spatial wavefunctions, EPR-paradox |
Assignment
4 Solution 4 |
| 6 |
16-18 |
May 4 - May 8 |
Rotations, Rotation operators, EPR again. Hidden
Variables. Time-evolution, time-evolution operator. |
No Assignment |
| 7 |
19 - 21 |
May 11 - May 15 |
Schrodinger
equation MID TERM Wednesday May 13 During Lecture time No lecture Friday |
Midterm Solution |
| 8 |
22-24 |
May 18 to May 22 |
Infinite square-well, finite step. |
Assignment
5 Solution 5 |
| 9 |
25 - 27 |
May 25 to May 29 |
No lecture Monday --
Memorial Day Finite square-well, Harmonic Oscillator, Precession in a B-field |
Assignment 6 Solution6 |
| 10 |
28 - 30 |
June 1 to June 5 |
Electron Spin-Resonance |
Assignment 7 |
| 11 |
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Monday June 8 |
FINAL EXAM , 8.30 am |
Final Exam: June 8 at 8.30 - 10.20 am