URL: 

http://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ ph130a

Lecture:

TTh 9:30,    Center Hall 222

Discussion:

Friday Noon, HSS 2154    (Branson)
Monday 3:00 Physics Tutorial Center, (Conger)

Instructor:

James G. Branson, MH5571, 534-2978, branson@ucsd.edu

Office Hours:

TA:

Casey Conger, caconger@physics.ucsd.edu
Office Hours

Text:

None

Grading:

Homework 20% (due each T in class) (Give excuses for late HW to TA)

2 Midterms 40% (Thu May 3,Thu May 31 )

Final 40% ()

Date

Topics

Gas. Ch.

April 3

Problems with Classical Physics
Wave Packets

1,2

April 10

Operators

3

April 17

Expectation Values, Commutators
Schoedinger Equation

3

April 24

Eigenfunctions and Vector Spaces
Particle in a Box

4

May 1

One Dimensional Potentials
()

5

May 8

More Fun With Operators
Operator Solution for the 1D HO

6,7

May 15

Two Particles in 3 Dimensions,Identical Particles
Separation of Variables in Cartesian Coordinates (Box, 3D HO)

9

May 22

Central Potentials
Angular Momentum
Radial Eq. in Const. Potential (Summary Only)

10,11

May 29

Hydrogen
3D HO in Spherical Coord. (Summary Only)

12

June 5

Matices and Spin

13