PHYSICS 851/852 : GRADUATE LEVEL QUANTUM MECHANICS

Instructor: Scott Pratt
prattsc@msu.edu
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, #2133
(517) 908-7460
Lecture:
Mon./Wed./Fri. 9:10-10:00 AM
#1420 BPS
Office Hours:
Mon./Wed. 3-4 PM #2133 NSCL
or immediately after class
Grader: Zhouyou Fan
fanzhouy@msu.edu

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Midterm reviewing PHY 851 exams will be given the first week of PHY852 on Friday, Jan. 10.
Final/Subject Exam:
1. The times for the subject exam are:
Wednesday, April 29th, 3PM: exams are sent to students via email. Solutions need to be emailed back by 3:15 PM, Thursday, April 30th.
2. For students with VISAs for extra time we will arrange time on a one-by-one basis. The times must overlap with the times in (1).
3. For students with exams the begin or end within 3 hours of the times above, the times in (1) can be altered by beginning either at 9AM or 9PM on Wednesday the 29th. If that is the case, you must notify me.;
4. The exam will be emailed to you at the specified time, then you will have 24 hours to complete the exam. The exam is open-note, open-book, open-internet. But you are asked not to communicate with other people during the exam. A draft of the cover sheet of the exam is attached here. Please read it so that you are confident you are equipped to download and submit your exam in a timely manner;
TEXT BOOK:
Lecture notes can function as text book, but it is a good idea to purchase something more permanent to get additional perspective.
Some to consider:
Modern Quantum Mechanics, J.J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Second Edition
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, Gordon Baym
GRADING WEIGHTS AND SCALE:
Homework (due nearly every Friday at the beginning of class): 10%
Numerous (nearly every week) Friday quizzes: 50% or 45% for Spring semester
Final Exam Presentations: 5% (Spring semester)
Final Exam: 40%
SCALE:
85-100%: 4.0
75-85%: 3.5
65-75%: 3.0
55-65%: 2.5
45-55%: 2.0
35-45%; 1.5
25-35%: 1.0
CALENDAR:
Quizzes will be held every Friday unless otherwise announced.
A midterm exam (one of the Friday quizzes) will be held Friday, Feb. 28th. The exam/quiz will count as 60 quiz points.
Final/Subject Exam described above in "ANNOUNCEMENTS"
POSTED LECTURE NOTES are not meant to be a replacement for textbook.
Beware!!! These are living documents and will change without notice.
HOMEWORK AND SOLUTIONS
QUIZZES AND IN-CLASS EXERCISES
PRACTICE AND PREVIOUS EXAMS
TEMPLATES for PROGRAMMING:
Matrix Manipulation(ipython notebook)
Matrix Manipulation(C++)
REVIEW FOR SUBJECT EXAM PRESENTATIONS
Apr. 10
 Chapter 1
 Anderson and Cariello
Apr. 10
 Chapter 5, periodic potential
 Flynn
Apr. 10
 Chapter 3
 Lee and Zeilbeck
Apr. 13
 Chapter 4, harmonic oscillator
 Mikolas and Senanayake
Apr. 13
 Chapter 4, adding angular momentum
 Sretonovic and Wozniak(presentation)
Apr. 13
 Chapter 5, parity and time reversal
 Le and Weitzel
Apr. 15
 Chapter 2
 Butler
Apr. 15
 Chapter 6, variational method
 Gonzales Ortiz and Sanchez
Apr. 15
 Chapter 6, Fermi's golden rule/harmonic perturbations
 Hassan and Sharma
Apr. 17
 Chapter 7, diffraction and form factors
 Haak and Owens-Fryar
Apr. 17
 Chapter 8, phase shifts and scattering
 Martirosova and Neuhart
Apr. 17
 Chapter 8, phase shifts and scattering
 Farris and Gombas
Apr. 20
 Chapter 9, decays
 Lay and Perez (presentation)
Apr. 20
 Chapter 10, isospin
 Berg and Greene
Apr. 20
 Chapter 10, Wigner-Eckart theorem
 Nevins and Purcell (presentation)
Apr. 22
 Chapter 11, Fermi gases
 Buhl
Apr. 22
 Chapter 12, molecules or atoms
 Breslin and Gamage
Apr. 22
 Chapter 12, superconductivity or Cooper pairs
 Wang
Apr. 24
 Chapter 12, Quantum Hall effect
 Byrd and Klaes
Apr. 24
 Chapter 13
 Maher and Wylie
Apr. 24
 Chapter 14
 Bonitati

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