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Physics 632 -- Winter, 2005

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* Seminars did not take place this quarter. articles

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  • Final exam --- Average was 62
  • Final exam solutions
  • Building Shells -- You can use these notes during the test.
  • Practice final problems, filling shells with various "simple" interactions. I will restrict questions to two-boson and two-fermion problems. You do not need to actually build states with good coupled angular momenta (e.g., orbital angular momentum and spin, or two L's and two S's, or ...), but I may use states given in the notes and assume you can find the appropriate wave function. You will see LS coupling on at least one problem. There will be three problems.
    Professor Perry has moved to his new office, M2056, on the mezzanine level of the new Physics Research Building.
    Notes that you can use on the tests are posted in the Lecture and Test Notes sections below.

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    Instructor:

    Prof. Robert Perry
    M2056 Physics Research Building
    perry@mps.ohio-state.edu
    292-6506 (office), 846-0361 (home), 397-1031 (cell)

    * Prof. Perry's Office Hours in Smith Student Lounge
  • Thursday 1:00-3:00
  • Friday 1:00-4:00


    • Grader:

    Mr. Ho Yin Lee
    1021-Z3 Smith Lab
    292-8528
    lee.2567@osu.edu

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    *General Information about Physics 632

    Course title:
    Introductory Quantum Mechanics II
    Text:
    Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 4th Edition, by Richard. L. Liboff

    Topics to be covered: 
    Angular Momentum & Spin
3-dimensional bound and scattering states
Hydrogen atom, analogs and other 3-dimensional systems
Examples from atomic & molecular, condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics
Matrix Mechanics 
What do you want?
    Meeting Schedule:
    Four days each week at 10:30 am (MWRF) in Smith 1005
    Each Tuesday at 10:30 am in Smith 1005 (optional seminar or example session)

    0th order Grade Weighting:
    Homework [25%]
    Two midterms [2 x 25%]
    Final [25%]
    1st order corrections to Grade Weighting:
    Correcting homeworks and tests
    Optional paper (no more than 4 coauthors)
    Seminar participation

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    * Problem Sets

    Homework is due by 4:30 pm Friday. Put in Mr. Ho Yin Lee's mailbox. No late homework.
    Graded homework returned in class Monday, solutions posted here Monday.
    Corrected homework due for partial credit by Wednesday.

    • Hwk #1 (due 7 Jan) --- 9.3, 9.6, 9.7, 9.11, 9.16, 9.18 solutions
    • Hwk #2 (due 14 Jan) --- 9.19, 9.23, 9.26, 9.32, 9.33, 9.35 solutions
    • Hwk #3 (due 21 Jan) --- 10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 10.10, 10.15, 10.17a solutions
    • Hwk #4 (due 4 Feb) --- 10.19, 10.21, 10.23, 10.31, 10.37, 10.38 partial solutions
    • Hwk #5 (due 11 Feb) --- 11.6, 11.13, 11.16, 11.30, 11.35, 11.39 solutions
    • Hwk #6 (due 17 Feb in class) --- Sample midterm questions -- solutions
    • Hwk #7 (due 25 Feb) --- 11.52, 11.58, 12.2, 12.5, 12.7, 12.10 solutions
    • Hwk #8 (due 4 Mar) --- 12.11, 12.14, 12.21, 12.23, last two solutions

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    *Examinations - You are allowed 2 pages of notes at tests.

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    *Lecture & Test Notes

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    *Articles

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    * Mathematica Notebooks

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    *Some links of interest

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    Physics 632. Created 4-January-2005. Last modified 14-March-2005.
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