Lectures: MWF 11:45am-12:35pm (period 5), in NPB 1002

Instructor: Richard Woodard; NPB 2065; Email: woodard@phys.ufl.edu

Office hours:
   Mondays 8am – 9am
   Tuesdays 11:45am – 12:35pm (period 5)
   Thursdays 1:55pm – 2:45pm (period 7)

Textbook: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition by David J. Griffiths

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Announcements will be posted here during the semester. Please refer to this website regularly.

Note that daily homework and reading assignments are given on the homework page.

First Exam Period Schedule:

Chapter 6 Time Independent Perturbation Theory
01/05:  Describe course, start section 6.1, Nondegenerate Perturbation Theory.
01/07:  Finish section 6.1.
01/10:  Start section 6.2, Degenerate Perturbation Theory .
01/12:  Finish Section 6.2.
01/14:  Section 6.3, The Fine Structure of Hydrogen.
01/19:  Section 6.4, The Zeeman Effect.
01/21:  Section 6.5, Hyperfine Splitting.
01/24:  Work Problems.

Chapter 7 The Variational Principle
01/26:  Start section 7.1, Theory.
01/28:  Finish section 7.1.
01/31:  Section 7.2, The Ground State of Helium.
02/02:  Section 7.3, The Hydrogen Molecule Ion.
02/04:  Work Problems.

Chapter 8 The WKB Approximation
02/07:  Section 8.1, The Classical Region.
02/09:  Section 8.2, Tunneling.
02/11:  Section 8.3, The Connection Formulas.
02/14:  Finish section 8.3.
02/16:  Work Problems.

02/18:  Review for Exam #1.

Exam #1
02/18:  7-9pm in NPB 1002.