PHY215B (Winter 09)
Quantum Mechanics

Instructor: Hsin-Chia Cheng (cheng [at] physics.ucdavis.edu)

Time & Place: Mon & Wed 8:30-9:50AM, 416 PHY/GEO

Office Hours: Tue 11:00AM-12:00noon, 433 Phy/Geo or just find me when I am not too busy with other things

Website: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/~cheng/teaching/215B-w09
Homework assignments and additional information can be found from the links of this webpage.
Also check http://my.ucdavis.edu/ course website for solutions and grades.
The class mailing list is phy215b-w09@ucdavis.edu and the messages sent to it will be archived at https://listproc.ucdavis.edu/class-secure/

Homework: Homework assignments can be found in http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/~cheng/teaching/215B-w09/homework.html. 
There will be homework assignments every week (except the week of Midterm, tentatively scheduled on Wed., Feb 11). Doing the problem sets is an extremely important part of learning. You can't learn the subject by just listening to the lectures without working through things by yourself. They also contain some of the important topics that we won't be able to cover in class. You can discuss the problem sets with your classmates, but you are not allowed to copy other people's homework. Each of you is required to write up your own homework following your own understandings. Each problem set is due about one week after its assignment in class. The solutions will be given on MyUCDavis course website immediately after the class on the due day and hence no late homework can be accepted. (So even if you couldn't finish you should turn in what you have done.)

TA: Haiying Cai (hcai [at] ucdavis.edu), Office hour: Tue 5-6PM, 410 Phy/Geo

Textbook: Recommended textbooks are "Modern Quantum Mechanics," by J. J. Sakurai, Revised Edition and "Principles of Quantum Mechanics," by R. Shankar, 2nd Edition. Our approach and emphasis are similar to these books but we will not follow exactly the same order. Owning one of these books is not required but recommended.

Grading: Homework 40%, Midterm 20%, Final 40%

Outlines of the course:

Topics	Approx. # of Lectures	Related Chapters in Sakurai	Related Chapters in Shankar
Wave Mechanics in Three Dimensions	3	A.5, A.6	Ch13
The Variational and WKB Methods	2	2.4, 5.4	Ch16
Time-Independent Perturbation Theory	3.5	5.1-5.3	Ch17
Irreducible Spherical Tensors and the Wigner-Eckhart Theorem	2.5	3.10	Ch15.3
Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory	3	5.6-5.8	Ch18
Scattering Theory	4	Ch7	Ch19

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