Physics 491

Last Updated: December 1, 2004

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Syllabus

Last Updated: December 1, 2004

Instructor :	Dr. Douglas E. Fields
Office Location :	Room 1148, Physics and Astronomy Building (new, northwest wing)
Office Phone :	277-1466
Office Hours :	Monday, Wednesday  3:00 - 5:00pm
Email :	fields@unm.edu
Class Web Page :	http://panda.unm.edu/courses/fields/phys491/Phys491_FA04.html
Class Times :	Monday, Wednesday 11:00am - 12:15pm
Class Location :	Physics and Astronomy, Room 184
Problems Class Time :	Monday 2:00pm – 2:50pm
Problems Class Location :	Physics and Astronomy, Room 184
Prerequisites:	Physics 491 and Math 312, 321 (or equivalents)
Text Book :	Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics 4th Ed., Addison Wesley (required) Other recommended texts: D.J. Griffiths: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics; J. S. Townsend: A Modern Approach to QuantumMechanics; S. Gasiorowicz: Quantum Physics (3rd Edition)
Grading :	Homework = 30%;  Midterm Exam = 30%,  Final = 30%, Instructor Judgment = 10%

Schedule of Classes:

Lecture #	Date	Subject	Homework (due before class)	Comments
1	Mon. Aug. 23	Introduction, Quantum History, Blackbody Radiation		Quantum Time Line
2	Wed. Aug. 25	Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering, Models of the Atom, Bohr Quantization
3	Mon. Aug. 30	de Broglie Matter Waves, Davisson-Germer Experiment, Free Particle Waves, Born’s Statistical Interpretation, Complementarity Principle
4	Wed. Sep. 1	Probability, Uncertainty in Free Particle Waves	Set #1 Solutions	Fourier Transforms
	Mon. Sep. 6	No classes, Labor day
5	Wed. Sep. 8	Wave Equation Development, Dynamical Operators, Schrödinger’s wave equation	Set #2 Solutions
6	Mon. Sep. 13	Time-Independent Schrödinger’s Equation, Solutions to TISE
7	Wed. Sep. 15	Free Particle Solutions, Infinite Square-well Solutions	Set #3 Solutions
8	Mon. Sep. 20	Formalism 1
9	Wed. Sep. 22	Formalism 2	Set #4 Solutions	Linear Algebra
10	Mon. Sep.27	Measurement
11	Wed. Sep. 29		Set #5 Due Friday Solutions
	Mon. Oct. 4	Review for Exam
	Wed. Oct. 6	Midterm Exam Solutions		Jan Rak will teach
12	Mon. Oct. 11	Dynamics, Ehrenfest’s Theorem		Jan Rak will teach
13	Wed. Oct. 13	Quantum Trajectories, Finite Square-Well	Set #6 Solutions	Jan Rak will teach
14	Mon. Oct. 18	Harmonic Oscillator Potential
15	Wed. Oct. 20	Harmonic Oscillator Potential 2
16	Mon. Oct. 25	Parity Affects, Delta Potential Well
17	Wed. Oct. 27	Unbound States, Scattering and Reflection and Transmission	Set #7 Solutions
18	Mon. Nov. 1	Unbound States 2
19	Wed. Nov. 3	Review	Set #8 Solutions
20	Mon. Nov. 8	Midterm Exam II Solutions
21	Wed. Nov. 10	QM in Three Dimensions
22	Mon. Nov. 15
23	Wed. Nov. 17		Set #9 Solutions
24	Mon. Nov. 22	TISE in Spherical Coordinates
25	Wed. Nov. 24	Angular Momentum
26	Mon. Nov. 29	Angular Momentum 2
27	Wed. Dec. 1	Radial Equation	Set #10 Solutions
28	Mon. Dec. 6	Hydrogen Atom
	Wed. Dec. 8	Set #11 Solutions Review
	Wed. Dec. 15	Final Exam Solutions

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