Syllabus    Physics 417 - Fall 2011


WEEK 	DATES       	LECTURE TOPICS    	               Chapters in text
1 	 Wed 9/7 	Introduction to the course 	       Preface, 1.1 - 1.2

2 	 Mon 9/12       Wavefunction, Uncertainty Principle    1.3  - 1.6
         Wed 9/14 	Schrodinger Equation                   2.1 - 2.2

3 	Mon 9/19        S. E. of Harmonic Oscillator           2.3
        Wed 9/21        S. E. of Free Particle                 2.4

4 	Mon 9/26        S. E. continued                        2.5 - 2.6
        Wed 9/28 	S. E. recap                            Chapter 2 recap

5 	Mon 10/3        Introduction to Hilbert Space          3.1 - 3.2
        Wed 10/5        Operators                              3.3 - 3.4

6 	Mon 10/10       Dirac notation (bra and ket)           3.5 - 3.6
        Wed 10/12       Schrodinger Equation in 3D             4.1

7 	Mon 10/17       Intro to Hydrogen Atom                 4.1- 4.2
        Wed 10/19       Hydrogen Atom continued                4.2                                           

8 	Mon 10/24       Review for midterm                    Chapters 1 - 4.2
        Wed 10/26 	Midterm Exam
 
9 	Mon 10/31       Angular Momentum                      4.3
        Wed 11/2 	Spin                                  4.4

10 	Mon 11/7        Stern-Gerlach Exp: Spin 1/2           4.4
        Wed 11/9        Adding Angular Momenta                4.4

11 	Mon 11/14       Identical Particles                   5.1
        Wed 11/16 	The Periodic Table, Solids            5.2-5.3
 
12 	Mon 11/21       Quantum Statistical Mechanics         5.4
        Wed 11/23 	Stefann-Boltzmann                     5.4

13 	Mon 11/28       Perturbation Theory                   6.1
        Wed 11/30 	Fine Structure, Zeeman                6.3-6.4

14 	Mon 12/5        Hyperfine,  Variational Principle     6.5-7.1
        Wed 12/7        Application of V. P. (He, H- ion)     7.2-7.3

15      Mon 12/12       WKB  intro                            Ch 8