Syllabus, Fall 2008
Subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
Lectures: Tu Th 10:30-11:45 a.m., in room CB 201.
Homework will usually consist of
one assignment per week, as shown below. It is due on Tuesdays. A
portion of every other Tuesday will be dedicated to discussion of
the homework assignments. Your presentation of the assignment
will affect the grade for homework and participation.
On dates highlighted by bold numbers we have discussions of
homework (usually two assignments)
| Day | Date | Topic | Problem assignment | Due date for assignment |
| Wednesday | 8/22/0 | Lecture 1: Historical
background for QM, Superposition pinciple and absolute size |
Quiz0 | 8/26/0 |
| Tuesday | 8/29/06 | Lecture 2: Kets, Bras,
Operators and Eigenvalue problem |
HW1 | 9/05/06 |
| Thursday | 8/31/06 | Lecture 3: Eigenvalue
problem, Linear Operators |
Quiz1 | 9/03/06 |
| Tuesday | 9/5/06 | deadline
for registration 09/06/06 Lecture 4: Free particle, Wave Packets, Commutator , |
HW2 | 9/12/06 |
| Thursday | 9/7/06 | Lecture 5: Uncertainty
Priciple, Shrödinger Equation |
Quiz2 | 9/10/06 |
| Tuesday | 9/12/06 | HW3 | 9/19/06 | |
| Thursday | 9/14/06 | Lecture 6: Shrödinger Equation for PIB, | Quiz3 | 9/17/06 |
| Tuesday | 9/19/06 | Lecture 7: Shrödinger Equation for particle in finite box | HW4 | 9/26/06 |
| Thursday | 9/21/06 | Lecture 8: Shrödinger
Equation for d-potential, Scattering |
Quiz4 | 9/24/06 |
| Tuesday | 9/26/06 | Lecture 9: Harmonic oscillator, | HW5 | 10/03/06 |
| Thursday | 9/28/06 | Lecture 10: Harmonic oscillator | Quiz5 | |
| Tuesday | 10/3/06 | Lecture 11: Matrix Representation, | ||
| Thursday | 10/5/06 | Midterm 1, Take home - includes all up to Lecture 10 | Quiz6 | 10/08/06 |
| Tuesday | 10/10/06 | Lecture 12: 3D systems, Rigid Rotator | HW6 | 10/17/06 |
| Thursday | 10/12/06 | Lecture 13: Spherical Well, Hydrogen Atom | Quiz7 | 10/15/06 |
| Tuesday | 10/17/06 | Lecture 14: Angular
momentum (Chapter 15) Last day to drop with "W" |
HW7 | 10/23/06 |
| Thursday | 10/19/06 | Lecture 15: Angular momentum and Spin (Chapters 15-16) | Quiz8 | 10/22/06 |
| Monday | 10/23/06 11:00am |
Lecture 16: Adding angular momenta (Chapters 15-16) | ||
| Tuesday | 10/24/06 | Lecture 17: Approximate Methods I (Chapter 9) | HW8 | 11/07/06 |
| Thursday | 10/26/06 | Lecture 18: Approximate Methods II (Chapter 9) | Quiz9 | 10/29/06 |
| Tuesday | 10/31/06 | No class | ||
| Thursday | 11/2/06 | No class | ||
| Tuesday | 11/7/06 | Lecture 19:
Approximate Methods III (Chapter10) Variational method; |
HW9 | 11/14/06 |
| Thursday | 11/9/06 | Lecture 20 Hand He atoms | Quiz10 | 11/12/06 |
| Tuesday | 11/14/06 | |||
| Thursday | 11/16/06 | Midterm 2, in class | Quiz11 | 11/19/06 |
| Tuesday | 11/21/06 | Thanksgiving Holidays | ||
| Thursday | 11/23/06 | |||
| Tuesday | 11/28/06 | Lecture 21 Multielectron atoms | HW10 | 12/5/06 |
| Thursday | 11/30/06 | Lecture 22-23 Time Dependent Perturbations | Quiz12 | 12/3/06 |
| Tuesday | 12/5/06 | Lecture 23-24 Absorption and Emission of Radiation | HW11 | 12/12/06 |
| Thursday | 12/7/06 | Lecture 25 Molecular Hydrogen and its Ion | Quiz13 | 12/10/06 |
| Tuesday | 12/12/06 | |||
| Thursday | 12/14/06 | Exam 3, Final, 10:30-12:30 in class | ||
| Grades Turn in. | ||||
*- You should read the material before coming to lecture. Splitting between the subchapters might not exactly correlate with the material covered during the lecture, thus it might be a good idea to read the whole chapter at once and adjust the review reading before each lecture.
Last updated on 07/16/08