I am available at my office SmallHall 253, or in the superposition of my labs 032, 034, or 065.
This course is a continuation of our study of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. We will explore more advanced techniques and study specific examples from atomic, solid state, and nuclear physics. Over the course of the second semester, we will work through part II of the text book, including Perturbation Theory, Variational Principle, Identical Particles, Scattering, and other advance topics.
Michael Sizemore msizemore@wm.edu will be assisting with this class. His office hours are 1-2pm on Tuesday in Room 160.
Homework submission is done via Gradescope code VD3KX8
HW 01 due date Feb 06 11:59pm. Required reading Ch 11.1. It is good idea to review Ch 1.6 of the textbook.
HW 02 due date Feb 13 11:59pm. Required reading Ch 11.1-11.4, 11.7. It is good idea to review Ch 10 of the textbook.
HW 03 due date Feb 20 11:59pm. Required reading Ch 11.3-11.5.
Get ready for the first midterm on Feb 27. The exam covers material of first 7 lectures (including Spin-Orbital coupling).
No homework for week of 2/24-2/28
HW 04 due date Mar 20 11:59pm. Required reading “the variational method” Ch 12 pages 432-436.
HW 05 due date Mar 27 11:59pm. Required reading beginning of Ch 12. Recommended reading Griffiths “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” chapter “Identical particles”
Get ready for the first midterm on April 3rd. The exam covers material of first 15 lectures (including degeneracy pressure, and white dwarf formation and size limits)
hw 06 due date Apr 10 11:59pm. Required reading beginning of ch 12. Recommended reading Griffiths “introduction to quantum mechanics” chapter “identical particles”
Read chapter 13 (scattering), you may skip phase shift analysis section 13.5. But have a glance 13.5 - resonances starting at page 473, especially if you are inclined to be a particle physicist.
hw 07 due date Tuesday Apr 17 11:59pm. Required reading chapter 13 and 14.5. Skip the phase shift analysis in section 13.5.
hw 08 due date Apr 24 11:59pm. Reading 14.5 and 14.7 (note that in class we do different (simplified) treatment. Recommended reading Griffiths 11.1-11.3.
We started - Time-independent perturbations (1st order)
Snow day.