Physics 710-711-712, Fall, Winter & Spring 2009-2010
Quantum Mechanics
Course information:
Class times: MWF 10:00-10:50 a.m., Braunstein
309.
Office hours: By appointment---generally
between 9am-2pm, M-F. (Geology/Physics 404; phone: 556-0459; email: argyres@physics.uc.edu
)
Text:Principles of Quantum Mechanics
by R. Shankar (2nd edition).
Assignments: 7 or 8 reading assignments
and problem sets per quarter (shown below). Completed problem sets are
to be put in my mailbox or under my office door, or handed to me in class
on the due date. Solutions will be made available in class on the due
day, so no late homeworks will be accepted.
Problem sets should be written up individually, not in collaboration with
others. In addition, I will occasionally (once every week or so) ask you
to prepare a problem to be presented in class.
Grades: Problem
sets will count for about half of your grade. Each problem in
a problem set is worth one point unless otherwise indicated. The other
half of the course grade will be determined by two written exams per quarter. All exams are of equal weight. With
one exception, all exams are closed book, but you are allowed to bring
in a few pages of notes of your own devising. The exception will be the
second exam of the spring quarter which will be a take home exam due on
the last day of class. This exam is open book, you will have more than
a month to work on it, and you may collaborate with your fellow classmates
(but, please acknowledge your collaborators!). I will assign course grades
according to the percentage of the course material mastered as follows:
A+ = 95% - 100% (stellar), A = 90% - 95% (excellent), A- = 85% - 90% (very
good), B+ = 80% - 85% (good), B= 70% - 80% (fair), B-= 55% - 70% (poor),
C= 0% - 65% (fail).
Assignments
Fall quarter
Problem Set 1---Due 10/2/09:
Read sections 1.1-1.4 (pp 1-18); do these
exercises (pdf file). Solution.
Problem Set 2---Due 10/14/09:
Read sections 1.5-1.9 (pp 18-57); do these
exercises (pdf file). Solution.
Problem Set 3---Due
10/26/09: Read section 1.10 (pp 57-73);
do these exercises
(pdf file). Solution.
Problem Set 4---Due 10/30/09:
Read chapter 2 (pp 75-106, but can just skim pp 75-86); do problems 2.(5.3,
7.2, 8.1). Solution.
Exam 1---Fri. 11/6/09: in
class.
Problem Set 5---Due 11/16/09:
Read chapters 3 & 4 (pp 107-150); do problems
4.(2.1,2.2, 2.3). (Problem 4.2.1 will be worth 5 points.)
Solution.
Problem Set 6---Due 11/25/09:
Read sections 5.1-5.2 (pp 151-164); do problems 5.(1.2, 2.2, 2.6). (Problem
5.2.6 will be worth 5 points.)
Problem Set 7---Due
12/4/09: Read sections 5.3-5.5 (pp 164-178);
do problems 5.(3.1, 3.4, 4.2). (Problem 5.4.2 will
be worth 5 points.)