Quantum Mechanics II
Physics 7502, Spring 2016
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The course information is available here plus lots of supplementary
info. Please check this page regularly.
Recent additions to this page:
- 11-Jan-2016 ---
First class this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, 11:30am in Scott Lab,
Rm. N050.
Instructor: Ulrich Heinz
Office: M2046 Physics Research Building (PRB) (phone: 688-5363)
Office Hours: I have an open door policy (drop in any time with
your questions, the worst that can happen is that I ask you to return
later).
Course Meets in
Scott Lab,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00-12:25 in Room N050 and additionally
Tuesday 5:20-6:15pm in
Smith Lab,
Room 1048.
Grader: Bowen Shi
(office: PRB M2039; office hours: Mondays 4:30-5:30pm,
Thursdays 1:30-2:30pm;
phone: 688-3298;
email: shi.576@osu.edu)
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- Symmetries and conservation laws in quantum mechanics
- Rotational invariance and angular momentum
- The hydrogen atom
- Addition of angular momentum; spin
- Variational and semiclassical methods
- Stationary and time-dependent perturbation theory
- Scattering theory
- Path integrals
- (Time permitting) The Hartree-Fock method
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Textbooks:
Supplemental Reading:
available at Science and Engineering Library (18th Avenue Library)
- E. Merzbacher, Quantum Mechanics (Wiley): advanced text, very thorough
(was used as text for this course in 2002)
- J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition,
(Addison Wesley), ISBN: 978-0-8053-8291-4: another popular graduate
text
- D. Griffith, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Pearson/Prentice Hall):
upper division undergraduate text
- R. Bluemel, Advanced Quantum Mechanics -- The claassical-quantum
connection (Jones and Bartlett): advanced
- L. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill): a classic
- A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics I,II (Wiley): another classic
(very comprehensive)
- C. Cohen-Tannoudji et al., Quantum Mechanics I, II (Wiley): also very
comprehensive but more modern than Messiah
- M. Belluni, W. Christian, A.J. Cox, Physlet Quantum Mechanics
(Pearson/Prentice Hall): an interactive text with numerical simulations
(CD ROM included)
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All section numbers and pages refer to Shankar's text. Reading must be
completed by due date listed, to be able to complete the reading quizzes:
- 1/11/2016: Chapter 11 (pages 279-303)
- 1/13/2016: Chapter 12, sections 12.1-12.4 (pages 305-321)
- 1/15/2016: Chapter 12, sections 12.5-12.6 (pages 321-352)
- 1/27/2016: Chapter 13 (pages 353-371)
- 2/1/2016: Chapter 14, sections 14.1-14.3 (pages 373-385)
- 2/2/2016: Chapter 14, section 14.4 (pages 385-397)
- 2/3/2016: Chapter 14, sections 14.5 (pages 397-401)
- 2/9/2016: Chapter 16, section 16.1 (pages 429-435)
- 2/10/2016: Chapter 16, section 16.2 (pages 435-449)
- 2/12/2016: Chapter 17, sections 17.1-17.2 (pages 451-464)
- 2/15/2016: Chapter 17, section 17.3 (pages 464-471)
- 3/9/2016: Chapter 18, sections 18.1-18.2 (pages 473-483)
- 3/21/2016: Chapter 18, sections 18.3-18.5 (pages 484-521)
- 3/30/2016: Chapter 19, sections 19.3-19.3 (pages 523-534)
- 4/1/2016: Chapter 19, sections 19.4-19.5 (pages 534-555)
- 4/3/2016: Chapter 19, section 19.6 (pages 555-561)
- 4/20/2016: Chapter 8 (pages 223-235)
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Here I will post scanned copies of my hand-written lecture notes. They are
sorted by chapters in Weinberg's and Shankar's texts.
- Chapter 11: Symmetries and their consequences
- Chapter 12: Rotations and angular momentum
- Chapter 13: The hydrogen atom
- Chapter 14: Spin
- Chapter 16: The variational and WKB methods
- Chapter 17: Time-independent perturbation theory
- Chapter 18: Time-dependent perturbation theory
- Chapter 19: Scattering theory
- Chapter 8: Path integrals
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Homeworks are usually assigned (i.e. posted here) on Tuesdays and
due at 5:00 pm on Tuesday of the following week. Please deliver
them to PRB M2039 (Bowen Shi's office), sliding them
under the office door if the office is locked.
You can, of course, turn in the homework any time before the deadline, but
note that NO LATE HOMEWORK IS ACCEPTED! If you cannot come to the PRB on
the due date, please hand the homework in early. In case
of emergency (illness etc.) when you anticipate that you will not be able
to finish the homework in time, you must send me an email or call me
BEFORE the due date so that alternate arrangements can be made. No
homework nor excuses will be accepted after the due date. (Solutions are
password protected, they are for the use of OSU students and faculty only,
please write to me if you belong to that group and are interested in
accessing them.)
- HW 1
(due Tuesday, 19-Jan-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 1
- HW 2
(due Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 2
- HW 3
(due Tuesday, 2-Feb-2016) [90 pts. total]
-- Solution 3
- HW 4
(due Tuesday, 9-Feb-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 4
- HW 5
(due Tuesday, 16-Feb-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 5
- HW 6
(due Tuesday, 23-Feb-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 6
- HW 7
(due Tuesday, 8-Mar-2016) [50 pts. total]
-- Solution 7
- HW 8
(due Tuesday, 22-March-2016) [80 pts. total]
-- Solution 8
- HW 9
(due Tuesday, 29-March-2016) [50 pts. total]
-- Solution 9
- HW 10
(due Tuesday, 5-April-2016) [40 pts. total]
-- Solution 10
- HW 11
(due Tuesday, 19-April-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 11
- HW 12
(due Tuesday, 26-April-2016) [100 pts. total]
-- Solution 12
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Midterm Exam: Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, 4:10pm-7:10pm,
Scott Lab N0048.
Final Exam: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 2:00pm-5:00pm,
Scott Lab N0050.
Grading: 30% HW, 35% Midterm Exam, 35% Final Exam
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Your comments and
suggestions are appreciated.
- D. Mermin on "Quantum
Weirdness" (Physics Today, April 1989)
- Matthew Pusey et al. "On
the reality of the quantum state" (Nature Physics, May 2012)
- Eugene Reich,
"A boost for quantum reality" (Nature 485 (2012) 157)
- D. Mermin on giving talks
(Physics Today, Nov. 1992)
- S. Weinberg's three Laws of
Progress in Theoretical Physics
(from Asymptotic Realms of Physics, edited by A. Guth, K. Huang
and R. L. Jaffe, MIT Press, 1983)
- Sam
Goudsmit: The discovery of the electron spin
(from the
web
site of the Physics Department at Leiden University)
- A T-Symmetric formulation of
Quantum Mechanics by Y. Aharonov, S. Popescu, and J. Tollaksen,
(Physics Today, Nov. 2010, p. 27)
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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