PHY 6646 QUANTUM MECHANICS II - Spring 2011


INSTRUCTOR

Pierre Sikivie
Office: NPB 2063
email: sikivie@phys.ufl.edu
tel: 352.392.1923

CLASS TIMES

MWF, 10:40 - 11:30am, in NPB 1101

Office hours:

MWF, 11:45 - 12:35am, in NPB 2063

Textbook:

`Principles of Quantum Mechanics' (2d edition) by R. Shankar, Plenum 1994. We will cover chapters 15-21.

There are many other useful textbooks on quantum mechanics. Here is a partial list:
- P.A.M. Dirac `The Principles of Quantum Mechanics', 4th Edition, Oxford U. Press 1958.
- L. Landau and E. Lifchitz `Quantum Mechanics', Pergamon Press.
- L.I. Schiff `Quantum Mechanics', 3d Edition, McGraw-Hill 1968.
- E. Merzbacher `Quantum Mechanics', 2d Edition, Wiley 1970.
- J.J. Sakurai `Modern Quantum Mechanics', Addison-Wesley 1985.

Course Outline:

- Addition of Angular Momenta
- Variational and WKB Methods
- Time-Independent Perturbation Theory
- Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
- Scattering Theory
- The Dirac Equation
- Path Integrals

Homework:

there will be one problem set per week.
Homework 1 (PDF)
Homework 2 (PDF)
Homework 3 (PDF)
Homework set #4, due February 2: 15.2.6, 15.2.7, 15.3.2, 15.3.3, 15.3.5
Homework set #5 due February 9: 15.3.4, 15.3.4*, 16.1.2, 16.1.3
Homework 6 (PDF)
Homework 7 (PDF)
Homework set #8, due March 2: 17.2.2, 17.2.7
Homework 9 (PDF)
Homework set #10: due March 23: 18.2.2, 18.2.3, 18.2.4, 18.2.6, 18.4.4
Homework set #11: due March 30: 18.2.5, 21.1.2, 21.1.3
Homework set #12, due April 6: 19.3.1, 19.3.2, 19.5.6
Homework set #13, due April 13: 19.3.3, 19.5.4, 19.6.1
Homework set #14 due April 20: 20.1.1, 20.2.1, 20.2.2, 21.1.16

Homework Solutions:

Homework 14 Solutions (PDF)

Grading:

the final grade will be based on homework (25%), a mid-term test (25%) on February 28, and the final exam (50%) on April 29.