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We will meet in Smith 1180 Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30 to 3:18 and Fridays from 1:30 to 2:18 and 2:30 to 3:18.
Grades will again be based on one midterm (25%), a final (50%), and homework (25%).
The dates of the midterm and final will be announced shortly.
Besides the principal textbook, I expect to be taking some material from various other books. Some good supplementary textbooks are the following:
``Quantum Mechanics,'' third edition, by Eugen Merzbacher (Wiley, New York, 1998).
``Modern Quantum Mechanics,'' second edition, by J. J. Sakurai (Addison-Wesley, New York, 1994).
``Quantum Mechanics, Non-Relativistic Theory,'' by E. M. Lifshitz, L. D. Landau (vol. 3 of Course of Theoretical Physics), third edition (Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford, 1977-2003).
``Quantum Mechanics,'' (two volumes), by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, and Franck Laloe (Wiley, New York, 1977). I expect to take occasional lecture material from this book.
``Quantum Mechanics,'' (two volumes bound as one), by Albert Messiah.
``Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition)'' by David J. Griffiths (Prentice-Hall, 1994). Commonly used undergraduate text.
``Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals,'' by Kurt Gottfried and Tung-Mow Yan (Advanced Book Classics). Old but still useful.
``Lectures on Quantum Mechanics,'' by Gordon Baym (Addison-Wesley Advanced Book Program)
During spring quarter, I plan to cover all of the following: scattering theory, Dirac equation, quantization of electromagnetic fields, quantum-mechanical interaction between em waves and charged particles, path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, introduction to quantum mechanics of many-particle systems (Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximations), quantum mechanics of atoms and molecules, (possibly) density matrix.
Note: a good online math reference is http://mathworld.wolfram.com, which has lots of analysis, plus a great deal of information about special functions. Two good books are "Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products," 6th ed., by Gradshteyn, Ryzhik, Jeffrey, and Zwillinger (Academic, San Diego, 2000), and "Mathematical Methods for Physicists," by Arfken, Weber, and Weber (Academic, San Diego, 2001).
oProblem Set 1.
oSolutions to PS1.
oProblem Set 2 (corrected).
oHint on last problem of PS2.
oSolutions to PS2.
oProblem Set 3.
oSolutions to PS3.
oProblem Set 4.
oSolutions to PS4.
oProblem Set 5.
oSolutions to PS5.
oProblem Set 6.
oSolutions to PS6.
oProblem Set 7.
oSolutions to PS7.
oProblem Set 8.
oSolutions to PS8.
I plan to have weekly problem sets, due on Wednesdays by 11:59 PM. If possible, turn in the problem sets into the mailbox of the grader (Rakesh Tiwari) in PRB. Alternately, you may turn them into my box, turn them in during class, hand them to me in my office, or slip them under my door (2048PRB) if I am not there.
In calculating the homework grade, I will discard your lowest (by percent) homework score, and sum up the remaining scores, normalizing them to 100. Thus, you may omit one homework without penalty.
In general, I do not object if you discuss the problems with one another while working on them. However, you should write up your solutions independently.
I will not have any required reading. However, I will try to suggest sections of the text to be read before or after my lectures.
My office is Room 2048 of the Physics Research Building. My office telephone no. is 292-8140 and my email address is stroud@mps.ohio-state.edu. Office hours will be M and W from 3:30 to 4:30 and by appointment. The grader is Rakesh Tiwari (email tiwari@mps.ohio-state.edu, office PRB2025). Please consult him if you have any questions about the homework grading.
oFirst set of lecture notes (overview of scattering theory; Born approximation).
oSecond set of lecture notes (partial wave approach to scattering).
oThird set of lecture notes (Dirac equation).
oFourth set of lecture notes (quantum theory of the radiation field, quantum theory of electron-photon interactions, and spontaneous emission. Also, one more lecture on the Dirac equation.)
oFifth set of lecture notes (fine and hyperfine structure of hydrogen atom).
oSixth set of lecture notes (periodic table, Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximation, Slater determinants, exchange energy, ground and excited states of He atom, atomic configurations and atomic term structures through Ne, Hund's Rules. Also, introduction to molecules: Born-Oppenheimer approximation, H_2+ molecule ion, H_2 molecule, bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals, Heitler-London or valence bond method.)
oSeventh set of lecture notes [hybrid sp3 and sp2 orbitals, benzene orbitals, brief description of rotational and vibrational levels of diatomic molecules (not covered in lecture)].
These are posted for your convenience. I haven't edited them and they are not guaranteed to be error-free. In fact, they are, unfortunately, guaranteed to be non-error-free.
oWolfgang Pauli
oAlbert Einstein
oPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac
oCharles Hermite
oMax Planck
oNiels Bohr
o Werner Heisenberg
oErwin Schrodinger
o Schrodinger's cat