Office hours: Monday 11:30-13:30, office 219 in the Cycltron Building. Textbook:
Stephen Gasiorowicz, Quantum Physics, 3rd edition. Grading: homework (25%) ...
Physics 851, Fall 2006 Quantum Mechanics I http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/phy851 Professor: Filomena Nunes, Cyclotron #219, tel: 3336471,
[email protected] Lectures: Mon, Wed, Fri (10:20-11:10), room 1420 BPS Building. Office hours: Monday 11:30-13:30, office 219 in the Cycltron Building. Textbook: Stephen Gasiorowicz, Quantum Physics, 3rd edition. Grading: homework (25%), midterm exam (25 %) and final exam (50 %).
PRELIMINARY CALENDAR Week Starting Topic 1 28 Aug Introductory concepts 2 6 Sep Wave packets and wave equation 3 11 Sep Probability and expectation values 4 18 Sep Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions 5 25 Sep One-dimensional potentials 6 2 Oct One-dimensional potentials 7 9 Oct More on wave mechanics 8 16 Oct Operator methods 9 23 Oct Angular momentum 10 30 Oct Three dimensional Schr¨odinger equation 11 6 Nov Matrix representation 12 13 Nov Spin 13 20 Nov Time-independent perturbation theory 14 27 Nov The real hydrogen atom 15 4 Dec Revision
Comment – – – HW1 HW2 HW3 MT+HW4 HW5 HW6 – HW7 HW8 HW9 HW10 FINAL
Chap. 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 –
Comments: Homeworks are due Wednesday and should be handed in directly to the Professor before the lecture. Students are expected to read the material (corresponding chapters of the book) before class. Midterm exam: 13th October, Friday. Final exam: 15th December, Friday 10-12 am.
