Chapter numbers are from Shankar, but in some cases I will include supplementary material that is not in Shankar.
| Chapters | Weeks | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1.5 | Time-independent perturbation theory |
| 18.1-3 | 2.0 | Time-dependent perturbation theory; Heisenberg and |
| interaction representations | ||
| 19 | 2.0 | Scattering theory |
| 18.4-5a | 1.5 | Semiclassical theory of interaction of radiation with |
| matter; atomic transitions and selection rules | ||
| 18.5b | 1.5 | Quantization of the radiation field; atomic transitions |
| revisited | ||
| 20 | 1.5 | Dirac equation |
| --- | 2.0 | Second quantization of systems of identical particles |
| --- | 2.0 | Feynman diagrams |