Homework Assignments
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Friday, 17 Jan: Get your computer account set up so you can run RLaB
demonstrations.
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Monday, 20 Jan: Read the web notes on
relativistic kinematics,
relativistic dynamics,
relativistic waves, and on
group velocity.
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Wednesday, 22 Jan: Do problem set 1.
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Friday, 24 Jan: Read the web notes on de Broglie's contributions to quantum
mechanics and Probability
amplitude and flux.
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Monday, 27 Jan: Do problem set 2.
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Friday, 31 Jan: Do problem set 3.
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Monday, 3 Feb: Read the web notes on
the particle in a box.
Do problem set 4.
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Friday, 7 Feb: Do problem set 5.
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Friday, 7 Feb: Read the web notes on Barrier penetration and scattering in
1-D.
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Wednesday, 12 Feb: Read the first three chapters of Martin's book.
Also, read the web notes on
the big ideas of quantum mechanics.
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Friday, 14 Feb: Do problem set 6.
Also, read the web notes on Hilbert
space and Fourier transforms, Wave functions and expectation values, and
Observables, operators, and state
vectors.
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Wednesday, 19 Feb: Read the web notes on Observables, operators, and state
vectors, Position and momentum
operators, and sections 1.1-1.3 of Harmonic oscillator.
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Friday, 21 Feb: Read the web notes on Time evolution and the energy.
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Monday, 24 Feb: Do problem set 7.
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Monday 3 Mar: Do problem set 8.
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Wednesday 5 Mar: Test (in class).
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Wednesday 19 Mar: Read the rest of the web notes on The harmonic oscillator.
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Friday 21 Mar: Do problem set 9.
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Monday 24 Mar: Do problem set 10.
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Monday 31 Mar: Read the web notes on perturbation theory and do problem set 11.
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Wednesday 2 April: Read the web notes on the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator.
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Wednesday 9 April: Read the web notes on orbital angular momentum and the hydrogen
atom.
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Monday 14 April: Do problem set 12.
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Wednesday 16 April: Test 2 is CANCELLED.
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Monday 21 April: read the web notes on identical particles.
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Wednesday 23 April: Read the note on electromagnetism and the extension of potential
energy to relativity.
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The final exam will be take-home and will be handed out in class on
Wednesday, 30 April. It will be due by 9 AM on Wednesday 7 May.