PH 401

QUANTUM MECHANICS

WINTER 2008-09

BASICS	ANNOUNCEMENTS
SYLLABUS (11/15/08) Textbook: Morrison DAILY LECTURE TOPICS (updated frequently).  What's due?  Beware of questions vs exercises vs problems! late homework policy (11/15/08) Corrected office hours: Tue 10:30-11, Wed 2:30-3, Fri 11:30-12	The schedule has been substantially changed.  Please see DAILY LECTURE TOPICS for details.  There will be three exams including the final.

· HOPEFULLY HELPFUL:

• Suggested: First, check here for errors and typos in text (If you find additional errors, let me know ASAP).  Read sections assigned before class, skipping "questions."  Prepare to discuss lead-in questions.  Attend lecture.  Re-read sections after class, including questions.

• Physlets: finite and infinite square wells and the H-atom
• My MathCad graphing notes for PHYS201, My Origin graphing notes for PHYS201.

• Info about exam #1: Fri, Dec 5, covering chapters 1-4.  exam #1 from  06 , brief answers . Note: time dependence of Gaussian (as in #4 and #8) will be on exam #2 this year.  You also might want to look at old quantum exams (exam #2) from PH 301
• Info about exam #2: Jan 16, ch 5-7.old exam #2 , brief answers .
• Info about exam #3: Feb 4, chapters 7-9. See  exam #3 from 06. brief answers .
• Info about exam #4: Feb 17, 12- 2 pm, chapters 10-13, review, as well as SHO from raising and lowering operators, 3-D problems with spherical symmetry, and angular momentum, which are not in the text.  See  exam #4 from 06. brief answers .
• Top ten beautiful experiments -- double slit tops them all!
• quantum computing article
• Schroedinger's Sock
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