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Physics University of Florida PHY 4604 Intro Quantum Mechanics 1 Spring 2018: 3 credits, Section: 8419 MWF (2nd period: 0830 - 0920 hrs) Room: NPB 1220 Final Exam 3E: Th, 03 May, 1730-1930 hrs Original Prof. Fry course webpage Syllabus (original webpage) “in vivo” Schedule (17 Apr 2018): 18 Apr. QM4UF continued. 20 Apr. QM4UF finished. 23 Apr. Homework 6 session. 25 Apr. Review for Final Exam. Potential EC due at start of class. Tests and Exam Schedule: Test 1: Thursday, 15 Feb, E2-E2 periods (20:20 - 22:10 hrs) NPB 1101 [No lecture on Friday, 16 Feb] Ch.1 and Ch.2 and lecture topics. Test 2: Thursday, 22 Mar, E2-E2 periods (20:20 - 22:10 hrs) NPB 1101 [No lecture on Friday, 23 Mar] Final Exam: Thursday, 03 May, 17:30 - 19:30 hrs, NPB 1220 Material on Final Exam will be from the entire course, with emphasis expected to be on the types of problems covered for and after Test 2. Electronic “Gradebook” (UF ELS) Homework/EC (due start of class date): HW1 (Monday, 22 Jan) HW2 (Friday, 09 Feb) HW3 (Friday, 02 Mar) IC-HW1 In class "Lab"! Wed., 14 Mar HW4 (Monday, 19 Mar) HW5 (Friday, 13 April) HW6 (Monday, 23 April) EC1 (Wednesday, 25 April) Additional News (17 April 2018): Potential EC corrected & posted. Entangled state (?): QM4UF = {Quantum Mechanics for You Forever!} + {Quantum Mechanics for UF?} ''Normalized in the normal way!" WebLinks: Paul Falstad's Applets: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html PhET: Univ. of Colorado: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/quantum-tunneling Prof. Hershfield's Course of Fall 2013: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy4604/fall13/ Prof. Michael Fowler, University of Virgina: Wave Packets...Phase & Group Velocity... Kyle Forinash and Wolfgang Christian: Waves: An Interactive Tutorial Mountain Math Software: The uncertainty principle MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) 8.04 (Spring 2013):Quantum Physics I Lecture 24 by Allen Adams (YouTube posting) |
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Departure Hall (Košice,Slovakia) Office: NPB 2358, Telephone: 352-392-8867 BEST Place to Find Me (if (probably) not in my office, try lab): LAB: NPB B133, Tel: 352-392-9147 Email: meisel@phys.ufl.edu Office Hours: posted online, and by appointment. Grading Assitant (GA): Jonathan E. Thompson Office Hour: Thursday, Period 3 (09:35 - 10:25) Office: NPB 2062 Fundamental Constants The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/ For your own use, download PDF of the "Frequently used constants" or other gems. "Formula Sheet" for Tests & Final Exam Draft Cover sheet for Test 1 (v09 Feb) PDF Draft Cover sheet for Test 2 (v16 Mar) PDF Draft Cover sheet for Final Exam (v27 Mar) PDF plus the Ch. 4 "handout" will be distributed. Other "Postings" Case1-boundstate-05Feb2018.pdf Draft of IC-HW-Lab1-Instructions.pdf "Nine formulations of quantum mechanics", D. F. Styer et al., Am. J. Phys. 70, 288-297 (2002); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1445404 "Feynman Lectures Vol. III, Ch. 5: Spin One", by M.A. Gottlieb and R. Pfeiffer, CalTech (2013). "Helium and two electron atoms", H.G. Berry, Lecture slides (PDF) from a course taught at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, March 2013. "Quantum oscillations of nitrogen atoms in uranium nitride", A.A. Aczel, G.E. Granroth, G.J. MacDougall, W.J.L. Buyers, D.L. Abernathy, G.D. Samalyuk, G.M. Stocks, and S.E. Nagler, Nature Commun. 3 (2012) 1124, doi:10.1038/ncomms2117 "Quantum Liquids", A.J. Leggett, Science 319 (2008) 1203-1205, doi:10.1126/science.1152822 "The Quantum Measurement Problem", A.J. Leggett, Science 307 (2005) 871-872, doi:10.1126/science.1109541 "From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics", N.D. Mermin, Am. J. Phys. 71 (2003) 23, https:doi.org/10.1119/1.1522741 "Snapshot" of Recent "Entanglement" and "QC" News and Reports: "Really Random Numbers", Joe Palca, NPR Morning Edition, 12 April 2018, talks with Peter Bierhorst. "Operator Spreading in Random Unitary Circuits", A. Nahum, S. Vijay, J. Haah, Phys. Rev. X 8 (2018) 021014 (11 April 2018) doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021014 Grading Scale (values in %):
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