| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | |
| 01/05 | Review of measurements. (notes) (supplement) | PH 451 WS 1 (PH 551 WS 1) | ||
| 01/07 | Review of basic quantum systems. (notes) | HW 1 PH451 (solutions) (HW 1 PH551 (solutions)) | PH 451 WS 2 (PH 551 WS 2) WS 2 analysis | Review questions |
| 01/09 | Review: inifinite and finite well. Energy spectra and wavefunctions in arbitrary potential. (notes) | WS 3 WS 3 analysis | ||
| 01/12 | Harmonic oscillator: number representation. Raising and lowering operators. (notes) | Reading: Ch. 9.1, 9.2. HW 2 PH451 (solutions) (HW 2 PH551 (solutions)) | WS 4 (PH 551 WS 4) WS 4 analysis | |
| 01/14 | Harmonic oscillator: energy spectrum and ladder operators.(notes) | Reading: Ch. 9.2-9.3. | WS 5 (PH 551 WS 5) WS 5 analysis | |
| 01/16 | Harmonic oscillator: position representation, uncertainty relations. (notes) | Reading: Ch. 9.4-9.7. | WS 6 | |
| 01/19 | no class: Martin Luther King day | |||