Instructor:
James
Martin
Time:
Tuesday
&
Thursday
10:00am
-
11:30am
Location:
C2-278
Course
start
date:
Thursday,
September
6,
2018
Course Content:
-
Review of basic formalism (Chapters 1 and 2).
- Angular momentum, coupling of momenta, Wigner-Eckart theorem (Chapter 3).
-
Approximation
methods
(Chapter
5
and
Chapter
2
[for
WKB],
+ supplementary material).
- Time-dependent solutions (Rabi solution) and time-dependent perturbation theory (Chapter 5).
- Symmetry (Chapter 4).
-
Quantization of the electromagnetic field and applications (Chapter 7 + supplementary material).
-
Introduction to one particle relativistic wave equations (Chapter 8 + supplementary material).
-
Scattering (Chapter 6 + supplementary material).
Required Text:
Textbook: “Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition", J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0-8053-4291-4