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Course Instructor: Ed Groth, Jadwin 264, x8-4361, groth@princeton.edu.
Office Hours: Most afternoons - give a call before walking across campus! Almost surely Wednesday afternoons, 2:00-4:00 pm.
Teaching Assistant: Zhaofeng Li, B124 Engineering Quad, x8-5968, zhaofeng@princeton.edu.
Office Hours: TBD.
Course Manager: Laurel Lerner, 210 Jadwin, x8-4403, lerner@princeton.edu.
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm, Jadwin A10.
Text: I don't plan to follow any particular text. There are any number of appropriate quantum mechanics texts. Two that I will be reading when preparing lectures will be F. Schwabl, Quantum Mechanics, Springer and P. J. E. Peebles, Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press.
Homework: Assigned via the course web site on Thursday or Friday. Due the following Thursday in the department office (208) by 5pm, returned the next Thursday. 50% of grade. Collaboration encouraged (but not copying!). Late homework may receive only half or none of the grade depending on how late it is and how it fits into the grading schedule!
Midterm: None.
Final: 50% of grade.
The homework assignments will be available for downloading. They will be pdf documents.
| Week | Starting Date | Tentative Topics | ||
| Homework Assignments and Solutions | ||||
| 1 | 17-Sep-2007 | Introduction. Why Quantum Mechanics? Structure of QM. | ||
| Due: 27-Sep-2007 | Homework 1 | Solutions | ||
| 2 | 24-Sep-2007 | Harmonic Oscillator. Schroedinger Equation. | ||
| Due: 4-Oct-2007 | Homework 2 | Solutions | ||
| 3 | 1-Oct-2007 | 1D Potentials. | ||
| Due: 11-Oct-2007 | Homework 3 | Solutions | ||
| 4 | 8-Oct-2007 | Wave Packets. Uncertainty Relations. | ||
| Due: 18-Oct-2007 | Homework 4 | Solutions | ||
| 5 | 15-Oct-2007 | Angular Momentum. | ||
| Due: 25-Oct-2007 | Homework 5 | Solutions | ||
| 6 | 22-Oct-2007 | Motion in Electromagnetic Fields. | ||
| Due: 8-Nov-2007 | Homework 6 | Solutions | ||
| 29-Oct-2007 | Midterm Break | |||
| 7 | 5-Nov-2007 | Central Potential. H atom. | ||
| Due: 15-Nov-2007 | Homework 7 | Solutions | ||
| 8 | 12-Nov-2007 | Spin. Addition of Angular Momentum. | ||
| Due: ** 26-Nov-2007 ** | Homework 8 | Solutions | ||
| 9 | 19-Nov-2007 | Time Independent Perturbation Theory. Fine Structure. | ||
| Due: 29-Nov-2007 | Homework 9 | Solutions | ||
| 10 | 26-Nov-2007 | Identical Particles. Atoms more complicated than H. | ||
| Due: 6-Dec-2007 | Homework 10 | Solutions | ||
| 11 | 3-Dec-2007 | Time Dependent Perturbation Theory. | ||
| Due: 13-Dec-2007 | Homework 11 | Solutions | ||
| 12 | 10-Dec-2007 | Scattering. | ||
| Due: ** 10-Jan-2008 ** | Homework 12 | Solutions | ||
| 13 | 17-Dec-2007 | Wrap up. | ||
| No additional homework this week. | ||||
| 16-Jan-2008 | Exam Period, Final Exam and Solutions. | |||