Meeting Times:  MWF 10:40-11:30 (4th period)

Location:  NPB 1101
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Chris Stanton
OFFICE: NPB 2170
 PHONE: 392-8753
 EMAIL: stanton@phys.ufl.edu

OFFICE HOURS: MW 1:15-2:15 and TH 3:00-4:00 or by appointment.

GRADER: Lili Deng, NPB 2111, 392-8755, Office Hour:   W 2:00-3:00,                    email: denglili@phys.ufl.edu
Announcements:    Announcements concerning homework, quizzes, changes in schedule etc. will be posted here.  Check back often to keep up to date.

 Per popular request,  we will change the date and time  of the class regularly scheduled for Weds., Nov. 25 (day before Thanksgiving) to Monday, Nov. 23 at 5:30 PM in room NPB 2205. This will be in addition to the regular class at the regular time (4th period) on that Monday.  

The next homework is a BONUS homework and is optional.  It is due on Fri., Dec. 4.  The last homework (#10)  will be due on Wed. Dec. 9.

Course: This is the first course of our two semester graduate core sequence in quantum mechanics.  It covers the mathematics and principles of quantum mechanics, as well as several very important examples: one dimensional potentials, the simple harmonic oscillator, spin, angular momentum, and the Hydrogen atom.  The second course in the sequence, PHY 6646, covers approximate techniques, and elementary relativistic and many body quantum mechanics.   These are very important courses because quantum mechanics is central to much of physics research today.  Many of you will be using the principles taught in this course for the rest of your careers.

Books: The required text for this course is "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" 2nd edition by R. Shankar.  We will cover Chapters 1-15, excluding Chapters 2 and 3.   I will be following the book closely and in some cases supplement it with additional lecture material and/or handouts.  Thus, you are expected to both come to lecture and read the book.

Grading: Your total score for the course is determined by your homework assignments (25%), quizzes (25%), and the two exams (mid-term and final) (25% each).  Your grade  will be determined by this score.  I will give you feedback on your likely  grade after the mid-term exam and once more near the end of the semester.   Grades of "A" and "B+" reflect performance at the level expected for a Ph.D.  candidates, while a grade of a "B" indicates master's level performance.

Academic Honesty: All UF students are required to abide by the University's Academic Honesty Guidelines and by the Honor Code, which reads as follows:

We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.  On all work submitted for credit by students at the University of Florida, the following pledge is either required or implied: "On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment."

Acknowledgments:  I am indebted to Profs. Selman Hershfield and Kevin Ingersent who have kindly lent me their notes and other material from the previous times they have taught the course.  Aspects of these notes have been incorporated into the lectures as well as some of the handouts etc.