October 28, 2009: Homework 6-12 will be collected, looked over and form 25% of the course grade. Homeworks will be due on Thursdays during class, one week after they are assigned. The exceptions are HW 8, due the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, and HW 12, due in my mailbox in the Jadwin Lobby during reading period. Since homework is now included in the course grade, the weights of the midterm and final are reduced to 25% and 50%, respectively.
September 11, 2009: Lectures will be in Jadwin A06, not A10 as stated on the registrar's site.
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.
Course Manager: Laurel Lerner, 210 Jadwin, x8-4403, lerner@princeton.edu.
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm, Jadwin A06.
Text: I will be drawing material for the lectures from a number of texts including F. Schwabl, Quantum Mechanics, Springer and P. J. E. Peebles, Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press. You're encouraged to get a copy of Schwabl as when I run out of time, I will point at the appropriate section of Schwabl for reading.
Homework: Assigned via the course web site (this page!) no later than Thursday. It is not handed in, but should be completed by the next Tuesday when solutions will appear on the course web site. You really must work through the problems before you see the solutions to have any hope of doing well on the exams! Also, you need to keep up, it doesn't work to save up the homework assignments for several weeks! If you don't understand a solution or have a different solution that you want to discuss, come to office hours.
Midterm: October 22 in class, 40% of grade, exam and solutions.
Final: TBD during final exam period, 60% of grade.
The homework assignments and solutions will be available for downloading. They will be pdf documents.
| Week | Starting Date | Tentative Topics | ||
| Homework Assignments and Solutions | ||||
| 0 | 14-Sep-2009 | Introduction. Why Quantum Mechanics? | ||
| No homework assigned this week. | ||||
| 1 | 21-Sep-2009 | Structure of QM. Begin Harmonic Oscillator. | ||
| Due: 29-Sep-2009 | Homework 1 | Solutions | ||
| 2 | 28-Sep-2009 | Harmonic Oscillator. 1D Potentials. | ||
| Due: 6-Oct-2009 | Homework 2 | Solutions | ||
| 3 | 5-Oct-2009 | More 1D Potentials. Wave Packets. | ||
| Due: 13-Oct-2009 | Homework 3 | Solutions | ||
| 4 | 12-Oct-2009 | Resonant Scattering. Uncertainty Relations. Angular Momentum. | ||
| Due: 20-Oct-2009 | Homework 4 | Solutions | ||
| 5 | 19-Oct-2009 | More Angular Momentum. Hamiltonian with E and B. In Class Midterm Thursday | ||
| Due: 27-Oct-2009 | Homework 5 | Solutions | ||
| 6 | 26-Oct-2009 | Motion in Electromagnetic Fields. Central Potentials. Centrifugal Potential. | ||
| Due: 12-Nov-2009 | Homework 6 | Solutions | ||
| 2-Nov-2009 | Midterm Break | |||
| 7 | 9-Nov-2009 | H atom. Free Particle in Spherical Coordinates. Representations and Transformations. | ||
| Due: 19-Nov-2009 | Homework 7 | Solutions | ||
| 8 | 16-Nov-2009 | Spin. Addition of Angular Momenta. Time Independent Perturbation Theory. | ||
| Due: 24-Nov-2009 | Homework 8 | Solutions | ||
| 9 | 23-Nov-2009 | Degenerate Perturbation Theory. Fine Structure. | ||
| Due: 3-Dec-2009 | Homework 9 | Solutions | ||
| 10 | 30-Nov-2009 | Identical Particles. Atoms more complicated than H. | ||
| Due: 10-Dec-2009 | Homework 10 | Solutions | ||
| 11 | 7-Dec-2009 | Time Dependent Perturbation Theory. | ||
| Due: 17-Dec-2009 | Homework 11 | Solutions | ||
| 12 | 14-Dec-2009 | Scattering. | ||
| Due: 07-Jan-2010 | Homework 12 | Solutions | ||
| 13-23-Jan-2010 | Exam Period, Final Exam TBD | |||