Welcome to my Quantum Mechanics 1 course webpage!
Here you will find the weekly homework assignments, class notes, relevant links, and bibliography. I will be updating this page regularly, please keep checking!
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Weekly notes and instructions
Week 1: Read chapter 1 before Thursday. Notes week 1 (pdf)
Week 2: Read sections 2.1 and 2.2. You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 3: Read section 2.3 (2.3.1 and 2.3.2) You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 4: Read section 2.4 and 2.5 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 5: Read section 2.6, 3.1, 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 6: Read section 3.3 and 3.4 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 7: Read section 3.5 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 8: Read section 3.6 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 9: Read section 4.1 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 10: Continue with section 4.2 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 11: Continue with section 4.3 and 4.4.1 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 12: Continue with section 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 12: Continue with section 4.5 You must email me at least one question Monday night and (at least ) another one Wednesday night.
Week 13: Review material for last midterm
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Homework
Homework assignments will be posted weekly and are always due the next Tuesday at the beginning of class. I will try to post the weekly assignments by Wednesdays, however it is possible that more problems are added during the week (no later than Friday though): It is your responsibility to periodically check this space for the problems due every week.
Homework 1 (due 8/23)
Homework 2(due 8/30)
Homework 3(due 9/6)
Homework 4(due 9/13)
Homework 5(due 9/27)
Homework 6(due 10/4). You may want to check this reference for one of the problems.
Homework 8(due 10/18)
Homework 9 (due 11/3 – Note change of date!!!)
Homework10 (due 11/10 – Note change of date!!!)
Homework11 (due 11/17 – Note change of date!!!)
Homework12 (due 11/24 – Note change of date!!!)
Homework13 (due 12/1 – Note change of date!!!)
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Bibliography
I will follow closely the book by Griffiths and Schroeter “Introduction to Quantum Mechnics“, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-18963-8 Hardback.
Other useful references are:
Principles of Quantum Mechanics, R. Shankar; ISBN-13: 978-1461576754, Springer.
A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics; J. Townsend; ISBN-13: 978-1891389788, University Science Books.
Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics
Schrödinger’s original paper with solution to the Hydrogen atom (Annalen Phys. 384 361). You may also want to check this paper where a nice description of Scrödinger’s solution is presented.
I will add more references later on.
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