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Instructor: John Scales (spring 08).
I will leave older material at the bottom for recycling
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 Download 2008 syllabus for PH320
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- Office hours (subject to change, so always look here for the current schedule):
Monday: 9-10 Wednesday: 2:30-3:30 Thursday: 2-3
- In addition, there will be a weekly help session on Tuesday Morning at 8:00 in a room TBD.
- There will be weekly homeworks, three one-hour exams throughout the semester and a two hour final. Each of these components will count for one-third of your grade: i.e., 1/3 HW, 1/3 hourlies, 1/3 final.
- Homeworks will be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the Thursday 8 days later. You must turn the HW's in to Jared Peacock, who is the TA for this class. You can do that by 1) handing them to Jared, 2) putting them in his mailbox in the Physics Office, or 3) putting them in the "in-box" on our door (MH 339).
2008 Course Material
- Homework 1. Chapter 1 in Griffiths. Read section 1.1 on the Schrödinger equation. 1.1 and 1.2 are fundamental but hard, we will come back to these ideas later, but it's a good overview of some modern ideas. Do problems 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 on page 12. Do problems 1.4 and 1.5 on page 14. These will be due on Thursday January 17 at the end of the day.
Since not all of you may have the book yet, for this first homework, I have scanned the relevant pages. here is the link to the pdf file. You must have the book though, so if you have not ordered it or bought from the bookstore, please do so ASAP.
Old Course Material
Spring 2008 note: You can ignore this if you want. You may find useful tidbits here, but the book we are using now is rather different than the one used below.
Evolution of Wavepackets (02/10/06)
Overview of Chapter 3 (02/24/06)
Operators, Observables, and Measurment (02/24/06)
Measurements and Eigenstates (02/27/06)
More on Eigenfunctions and Measurements (3/1/06)
Scattering From and Tunneling Through Potential Barriers (3/3/06)
Exam 1 Overview (3/6/06)
Probability Currents (3/6/06) with a digression on optical lattices
Square Well Potentials (3/8/06) finite, infinite and a comparison with the classical situation
More on Square Wells and Review for Monday's Exam ndamental problem (3/17/06)
Harmonic oscillators (3/27/06)
Exam 2 overview (3/29/06)
Classical vs quantum harmonic oscillator. Correspondance principle (3/31/06)
Two state systems: the ammonia molecule (4/3/04)
Overview of Chapter 5 (4/5/06)
4/7/06 no class--edays
The ammonia Maser (4/10/06)
4/14/06 Exam 3
| Download separation of variables of the Laplacian 4/21/06
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nice spherical harmonics page from Mathworld
 Download manipulating spherical harmonics in mathematica.
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4/26/06 PDF lecture notes on series solutions of ODEs
| Download PDF lecture notes from 4/28/06
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coherent states versus number (harmonic oscillator) states (5/1/06)
Divertimenti
3/1/06 The Wacky World of Quantum Computing
3/3/06 Applications of Quantum Tunneling
3/6/06 amazingly beautiful experiments on quantum computing using Josephson junctions and microwave circuits.
3/15/06 quantum well heterostructures, photonic crystals heterostructure laser diodes
3/29/06 measuring the spring constant of a single polymer chain
Course Downloads
| Download Gaussian wavepackets You can animate this and see the evolution of the phase with time.
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test 1 answers (2/27/06)
a review of Fourier series (posted 3/10/06)
sample questions for exam 3 (posted 4/13/06)
