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Physics 410 - Fall 2007 Timeline

Rough timeline - recommended sections to read are in [brackets]

Week 1: 27th,29th,31st Aug: Lecture Notes: [ 01.ps, 01.pdf, 02.ps, 02.pdf, 03.ps, 03.pdf ]
History of QM, motivation (modern physics), concept of wavefunction, probability, Probability density, expectation values and Gaussian integrals [1.1, 1.2]

Week 2: 5th, 7th Sep: (3rd is Labor Day Holiday) Lecture Notes: [04.ps, 04.pdf, 05.ps, 05.pdf]
Operators: momentum, more general [1.3, 1.4], uncertainty principle [1.5, 1.6]. Start 1-D Schrödinger eqn [1.1,2.1].

Week 3: 10th, 12th, 14th Sep: (17th is Add/Drop deadline) Lecture Notes: [06.ps, 06.pdf, 07.ps, 07.pdf, 08.ps, 08.pdf]
1-D Schrödinger eqn [2.1], Infinite square well [2.1, 2.2], start on Harmonic Oscillator [2.3, 2.3.2]

Week 4: 17th, 19th, 21st Sep: Lecture Notes: [09.ps, 09.pdf, 10.ps, 10.pdf, 11.ps, 11.pdf,]
Ladder operators and Harmonic oscillator method II [2.3.1]

Week 5: 24th, 26th, 28th Sep : Lecture Notes: [12.ps, 12.pdf, 13.ps, 13.pdf, 14.ps, 14.pdf,]
The 1-D free particle [2.4], Scattering vs Bound states [2.5.1], Finite square well [2.6]

Week 6: 1st, 3rd, 5th Oct: Lecture Notes: [15.ps, 15.pdf, 16.ps, 16.pdf, review.ps, review.pdf]
Delta function [2.5.2 / 2.5.3], Review of 1-D Schrödinger eqn

Week 7: 8th, 10th, 12th Oct: Lecture Notes: [18.ps, 18.pdf, 19.ps, 19.pdf]
Test #1, start on matrix mechanics/Linear Algebra [3.X, Appendix]

Week 8: 15th, 17th, 19th Oct: Lecture Notes: [20.ps, 20.pdf, 21.ps, 21.pdf, 22.ps, 22.pdf]
Matrix eigenvalue equations [Appendix], Function spaces [3.1, 3.2, 3.4]

Week 9: 22nd, 24th, 26th Oct: Lecture Notes: [23.ps, 23.pdf, lectures 24 and 25 cancelled by ze fire]
Function spaces, Operators and Observables [3.1, 3.2],

Week 10: 29th, 31st Oct, 2nd Nov: Lecture Notes: [26.ps, 26.pdf, 27.ps, 27.pdf, 28.ps, 28.pdf]
Observables, gen.stat.interp., Matrix mechanics, Completeness [3.2-3.6]

Week 11: 5th, 7th, 9th Nov: Lecture Notes: [29.ps, 29.pdf, 30.ps, 30.pdf, 31.ps, 31.pdf]
Schroedinger equation 3-D [4.1], Spherical Harmonics [4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3] Review 1-D SE / matrix mechanics

Week 12: 14th, 16th Nov: (Monday 12th is Veteran's Day) Lecture Notes: [32.ps, 32.pdf]
Test2, Spherical square well [4.1.3], Coulomb potential, hydrogen atom [4.2],

Week 13: 19th, 21st Nov: (22nd/23rd Thanksgibbon): Lecture Notes: [33.ps, 33.pdf, 34.ps, 34.pdf]
Coulomb potential, hydrogen atom [4.2], angular momentum [4.3]

Week 14: 26th, 28th, 30th Nov: Lecture Notes: [35.ps, 35.pdf, 36.ps, 36.pdf, 37.ps, 37.pdf]
Spin including examples (especially Stern-Gerlach), addition of angular momentum [4.4.3], Atomic structure-He [5.2.1] and others [5.2.2]

Week 15: 3rd, 5th, 7th Dec: Lecture Notes: [38.ps, 38.pdf, 39.ps, 39.pdf]
variational principle [7.1] entanglement fun , Exam review...

Week 16: 14th Dec:
Final exam: Friday 14th December 8am-10am