| WEEK |
DATES |
LECTURE TOPICS |
READING |
| 1 |
Wed 9/7
Thur 9/8 |
Introduction/FoundationI
Foundation II
|
1.1-1.2
1.2-1.4
|
| 2 |
Mon 9/12
Wed 9/14 |
Schroedinger Equation I
Schroedinger Equation II
|
2.1-2.2
2.3-2.4
|
| 3 |
Mon 9/19
Wed 9/21
|
Potential Wells I
Potential Wells II
|
3.1-3.2
3.3-3.6
|
| 4 |
Mon 9/26
Wed 9/28
|
Potential Barriers
Scattering/Operators and Expectation Values
|
3.7-3.9
3.10-4.2
|
| 5 |
Mon 10/3
Wed 10/5
|
Uncertainty Principle and Commutators
Orthogonality and Superposition
|
4.3-4.5
4.6-4.9
|
| 6 |
Mon 10/10
Wed 10/12 |
Harmonic Oscillator I
Harmonic Oscillator II
|
5.1-5.3
5.4-5.6
|
| 7 |
Mon 10/17
Wed 10/19 |
Review for Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam
|
|
| 8 |
Mon 10/24
Wed 10/26 |
Review
Schroedinger's Equation in 3D
|
6.1-6.2
|
| 9 |
Mon 10/31
Wed 11/2 |
Angular Momentum I
Angular Momentum II/Central Potentials
|
6.3-6.4
6.5, 7.1-7.3
|
| 10 |
Mon 11/7
Wed 11/9 |
Coulomb Potential
Hydrogen Atom
|
7.4
7.5-7.7
|
| 11 |
Mon 11/14
Wed 11/16 |
Angular momentum Operators
Angular Momentum Quantization and Spin
|
8.1
8.2-8.3
|
| 12 |
Mon 11/21
Wed 11/23 |
Real Hydrogen atom/Identical particle
Happy Thanksgiving!
|
8.4
|
| 13 |
Mon 11/28
Wed 11/30 |
Pauli exclusion Principle
Multielectron atoms
|
8.4
|
| 14 |
Mon 12/5
Wed 12/7 |
Approximation method I
Approximation method II
|
9.1-9.2
9.3-9.4
|
| 15 |
Mon 12/12
|
GRE problems/Review for Final Exam
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