Honors Physics 632 -- Winter, 2012

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!!! SECOND EXAM: Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30-9:30pm, Smith Seminar Room !!!
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Spherical Harmonics

L_x eigenstates

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Instructors & office hours
General info
Homework Problem Sets
Exams -- schedule
Articles -- various articles
Lecture Notes -- selected
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Instructor:

Prof. Robert Perry

M2056 Physics Research Building

perry@mps.ohio-state.edu

397-1031 (office/cell), 846-0361 (home)

Prof. Perry's Office Hours

Fridays - several hours on day homework due

Ask for time any day after lecture or:

email perry.6@osu.edu for appointment

Grader:

Mr. Sushant More

email more.13@buckeyemail.osu.edu

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General Information about Honors Physics 631

Course Information Handout

Course title:: Introductory Quantum Mechanics II
Text:: Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition, by R. Shankar
Topics to be covered:
1) Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations 2) N Degrees of Freedom 3) Symmetries and Their Consequences 4) Rotational Invariance and Angular Momentum 5) The Hydrogen Atom 6) Spin 7) Addition of Angular Momentum 8) Variational and WKB Methods
Meeting Schedule:: Four days each week at 10:30 am (MWF) in 0135 Caldwell Lab, Thur in 0305 Dreese Lab
0th order Grade Weighting:: Homework [25%]; Three exams [3 x 25%]
1st order corrections to Grade Weighting:: Correcting tests; One-on-one meetings; Classroom participation

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Problem Sets

Homework is due by 4:00 pm Friday. Turn in at front desk of main office. Late homework will be accepted through Monday morning, but you lose 25%.
Graded homework returned in class within a week and solutions posted here.

Hwk #1 (due Mon, 9 Jan) --- 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3, 9.4.4 Solutions
Hwk #2 (due Fri, 13 Jan) --- 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.6 [many are easy] Solutions
Hwk #3 (due Mon, 23 Jan) --- 11.2.2, 12.3.3, 12.3.6, 12.3.8, 12.4.3, 12.5.3, 12.5.13 Solutions
Hwk #4 (due Fri, 3 Feb) --- 12.6.1, 12.6.2, 12.6.4, 12.6.7, 12.6.9
Hwk #5 (due Fri, 10 Feb) --- 13.1.5, 13.3.1, 13.3.3, 13.4.1, 13.4.2, 13.4.3, Last 2 problems

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Examinations

You are NOT allowed to use notes or calculators during exams. I will provide details I do not expect you to know and try to make clear what that means.
Exam schedule is tentative. Let me know if any of these do not work.