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Mathematica tutorial I

Final Exam from 2008

Outline For This Semester

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• FINAL EXAM  in RM 1420, Friday, December 18, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
• Note that RM 1400 was booked all day for friday.
  
• Review Session in RM 1400 , Wednesday, December 16, from 3:30pm to 5:30pm
  

Week 1:
Lecture 1: Some thoughts on 'i' and 'h'
Lecture 2: Dirac Notation
Week 2:
HW 1: Dirac Notation

HW 1: Solutions

Lecture 3: Operators

Week 3:
HW 2: Quantum Postulates

HW 2: Solutions

Lecture 4: Basis sets

Lecture 5: Postulates of QM

Week 4:
HW 3:

HW 3: Solutions

Lecture 6: Time Propagation

Lecture 7: The 2-Level Rabi Model

Lecture 8: Rabi Model II

Week 5:
HW 4: 

HW 4: Solutions 

Lecture 9: Rabi Model III

Lecture 10: X and P

Lecture 11: X and P II

Week 6:
HW 5: 

HW 5: Solutions 

Lecture 12: Wavepackets

Lecture 13: the Classical Limit

Lecture 14: Motion in 1D

Week 7:
HW 6: 

HW 6: Solutions

Lecture 15: Simple Problems in 1D and Probability Current 1

Lecture 16: Probability Current 2 and 1D Scattering

Lecture 17: 1D Scattering 2

Week 8:
HW 7: 

HW 7: Solutions 

Lecture 18: Delta Function Scattering

Lecture 19: The Quantized Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 20: Quantum SHO 2

Week 9:
No HW this week

Lecture 21: Parity Inversion

MIDTERM EXAM: Wed. Oct. 28, 10:20 AM

Lecture 22: Coherent States

Week 10:

HW 8: 

HW 8: Solutions 

Lecture 23: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Week 11:
HW 9: 

HW 9: Solutions 

Lecture 24: Tensor Product Spaces
Lecture 25: Change of Coordinate System
Lecture 26: Angular Momentum Algebra

Week 12:
HW 10: 

HW 10: Solutions 

Lecture 27: Orbital Angular Momentum
Lecture 28: The quantum two-body problem

Lecture 29: Motion in a Central Potential

Week 13:
HW 11: 

HW 11: Solutions 

Lecture 30: The Hydrogen Atom
Lecture 31: Dipole Moments

Week 14:
HW 12: 

HW 12: Solutions 

Lecture 32: The case against `Local Realism'
Lecture 33: Spin
HW 13:
HW 13: Solutions
Week 15:
Lecture 34: The Density Operator