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Syllabus for Winter 2011

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Day

Topic

Reading (McIntyre)

Homework

M 1/3
W 1/5
F 1/7

Review of paradigms
1-D potentials, wavefunctions
Harmonic Oscillator energy spectrum

1, 2, 3 (review)
5, 6, 7, 8 (review)
9.1

HW1 due 1/12

Soln1

M 1/10
W 1/12
F 1/14

Harmonic Oscillator: Wavefunctions
HO: classical limit, Dirac notation
HO: Matrices, p-representation

9.2-3
9.4-5
9.6-7

HW2 due 1/19
9.4, 6, 9, 12, 13
Soln2

M 1/17
W 1/19
F 1/21

MLK
HO: p-rep., Time dependence, Ehrenfest
Time indep non-deg perturbation theory

9.8-9
10.1-2

HW3 due 1/26 CORRECTIONS
9.11, 14, 15, 16, Table
Soln3

M 1/24
W 1/26
F 1/28

Non-degenerate perturbation theory
Degenerate perturbation theory
Stark effect in Hydrogen

10.3-4
10.5
10.6

HW4 due 2/2
10.1, 8, 10, 14
Soln4

M 1/31
W 2/2
F 2/4

Angular Momentum
Addition of angular momentum
Review 

11.1-2
11.3

HW5 due 2/9
10.16, 20, 23
Soln5

 M 2/7
W 2/9
F 2/11

Midterm (material through end of Chap. 10)
Addition of angular momentum
Addition of angular momentum

solns
11.4-5
11.6-7

HW6 due 2/16
11.1, 2, 4, 19
Soln6

M 2/14
W 2/16
F 2/18

Spin-Orbit, Hydrogen fine structure
Zeeman effect
Hydrogen hyperfine structure

12.1-2
12.3
12.3

HW7 due 2/23
11.12, 16, 18, 12.2
Soln7

M 2/21
W 2/23
F 2/25

Identical particles
Identical particles, Helium
Identical particles, periodic table

13.1-3
13.4
13.5-6

HW8 due 3/2
12.3, 12, 14, 15(b)
Soln8

 M 2/28
W 3/2
F 3/4

Time dependent Perturbation
Harmonic Perturbation
Radiation

14.1
14.2
14.3

HW9 due 3/11
13.3, 4, 16, 14.4, 8
Soln9

M 3/7
W 3/9
F 3/11

Radiation - dipole
Selection rules
Review

14.3
14.4

T 3/15

FINAL EXAM 9:30 am

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