This is my best-guess schedule as of January 19, 2008.
It is likely that the schedule will change in detail.
Students are responsible
for changes announced in class.
| class | date | subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 5 | The WKB Approximation |
| 2 | January 7 | The WKB Approximation |
| 3 | January 9 | The WKB Approximation |
| 4 | January 12 | Propagators |
| 5 | January 14 | Feynman Path Integral Formulation of QM |
| 6 | January 16 | Feynman Path Integral Formulation of QM |
| no class | January 19 | Martin Luther King Holiday |
| 7 | January 21 | Constant Potentials and Gravity in QM |
| 8 | January 23 | Gauge Tranformations |
| 9 | January 26 | Aharonov Bohm Effect and Magnetic Monopoles |
| 10 | January 28 | classes canceled due to bad weather |
| 11 | January 30 |
Rotatations, Their Generators, and the Fundamental Commutation Relations of Angular Momentum |
| 12 | February 2 | Spin 1/2 Systems and Finite Rotations |
| 13 | February 4 |
More Spin 1/2, including prescession in a magnetic
field, and Pauli formailism
Extra session - rotations and related groups |
| 14 | February 6 | Euler rotations |
| 15 | February 9 | Ensembles |
| 16 | February 11 | Ensembles |
| March 20 | Final Examination; 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM | |
last modified January 16, 2009