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| May | 13 Tue | Stern-Gerlach Experiments. | 1.1-1.2 | |
| 15 Thu | Stern-Gerlach Experiments, The Quantum State Vector | 1.3-1.6 | ||
| 20 Tue | Matrix Mechanics, Rotation Operators. The Identity and Projection Operators, Matrix Representation of Operators. | 2.1-2.4 | ||
| 22 Thu | Changing Representations, Expectation Values. | 2.5-2.6 | HW #1: Chapter 1#3,4,5,6,7, 9,10,11,14 |
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| 27 Tue | Rotations, Generators, Commuting Operators. | 3.1-3.2 | ||
| 29 Thu | The Eigenvalues and Eigenstates of Angular Momentum. Uncertainty Relations and Angular Momentum. | 3.3-3.5 | ||
| June | 3 Tue | The Spin-½ Eigenvalue Problem. A Stern-Gerlach Experiment with Spin-1 Particles. | 3.6-3-7 | HW #2: Chapter 2#1-2,4-5,7-10,24 |
| 5 Thu | The Hamiltonian and the Schrodinger Equation, Time Dependence of Expectation Values. | 4.1-4.2 | ||
| 10 Tue | Precession of a Spin-½ Particle in a Magnetic Field. Magnetic Resonance. | 4.3 -4.4 | HW #3: Chapter 3#1,2,8-10 |
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| 12 Thu | Review. | HW #4: Chapter 3#6,12-17,25 |
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| 17 Tue | Quiz 1. | |||
| 19 Thu | Holiday |
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| 24 Tue | Position Eigenstates and the Wave Function, The Translation Operator. | 6.1-6.2 |
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| 26 Thu | The Generator of Translations, The Momentum Operator in Position and Momentum Basis. | 6.3-6.5 | HW #5: Chapter 4#4,5,8,11-13 |
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| July | 1 Tue | A Gaussian Wave Packet. Properties of Solutions to the Schrodinger Equation in Position Space. | 6.6, 6.8 |
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| 3 Thu | Holiday | |||
| 8 Tue | The Particle in the Box and in the δ-function potential, Inversion Symmetry and the Parity Operator. | 6.9, 7.10 | HW #6: Chapter 6#1,3 |
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| 10 Thu | The One-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator, Operator Methods. Position-Space Wave Functions, The Zero-Point Energy. | 7.1-7.5 | HW #7: Chapter 6#5(a,b only),6 |
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| 15 Tue | Review. | HW #8: Chapter 6#12-16,19 |
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| 17 Thu | Quiz 2 | |||
| 22 Tue | Scattering in One Dimension. | 6.10 | HW #9: Chapter 7#5,7,9 |