Lecture: 11:00-11:50, MWF, Room 218,
Instructor: Michael Fowler, office Physics 307, 924-6579, mfowler@virginia.edu
Grader: Wei Jiang, wj2c@virginia.edu
Textbook: R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum
Mechanics, Second Edition, Plenum Press.
Office hours: Thursdays 10:00-11:00, but come by or e-mail anytime.
Final Exam: Monday, December 15, 9:00-12:00
Midterms: October 3, November 7.
Homeworks: handed out Fridays, due in the following Friday at 11:00am.
No credit will be given for late homework.
Grade distribution: Homeworks 30%, midterms 15% each, final 40%.
Important! Homework Policy: Feel free to consult books or any other source of information to help with your homework assignment, including talking with each other. But the version you hand in should have been written by yourself on a clean sheet of paper, and not copied from someone else. It is also important that it be easily readable—an important part of the homework task is clear presentation.
Homework #1, due September 12.
Homework #2, due September 19.
Homework #3, due September
26. PDF
Homework #4, due
October 3. PDF
Homework #5, due October 17. PDF
Homework #6, due October 24. Shankar problems 7.3.1 through 6, 7.4.1 through 6.
Homework #7, due October 31. PDF
Homework #8, due November 7. PDF
Homework #9, due November 17. Shankar problems 12.3.3,5,7. 12.5.5,11,13.
Note! Comment on the form of the wavefunction near the origin in 12.3.3;
and 12.5.5 is not that hard—just expand the exponential as we did in class.
Homework #10, due November 24. Shankar 12.6.8,9,11. 13.4.1. 14.3.2,4,7.
Homework #11, due December
3. PDF
Some of the material covered in class will also be posted
here.
Wave
Equations, Wavepackets and Superposition
PDF
Fourier
Series, Fourier Integrals and the Delta Function PDF
One-Dimensional
Schrödinger Equation: Some Examples PDF
General
Uncertainty Principle PDF
Simple Harmonic
Oscillator PDF
Propagators
and Representations PDF
Quasi
Classical (Coherent) States of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator PDF
Angular
Momentum Operator Algebra PDF