PHYS 606, Spring 2017

PHYS 606, QUANTUM MECHANICS I, Spring 2017

Class hours: Tue, Thu, 12.45 pm - 2 pm, Room MPHY 109
Office hours: Tue, Wed, 10.30-12, in MPHY 309 or with appointment.
Midterm exam: Friday, March 24, 6.30 pm in MPHY 332. No notes or books allowed, a formula sheet will be provided.
Final exam: Friday, May 5, 5 pm in MPHY 337. No notes or books allowed, a formula sheet will be provided.

Please read the Syllabus for more information .
Primary Textbook: Eugen Merzbacher, Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition. There are many other textbooks, like Landau-Lifshitz Vol. III, Sakurai, Schiff, etc. which cover the same topics and which might be useful to look into if you feel you need to see a topic from a different angle.
It might sometimes be useful to have a good advanced mechanics book at hand since we will be using some concepts like Hamilton functions, Hamilton principal action and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Examples are Landau-Lifshitz Vol. I, and Goldstein. I will also post some relevant notes from my PHYS 601 course below.

Here are two chapters from my PHYS 601 (Analytic Mechanics) notes that contain material relevant for this course. They might be useful this semester.
Chapter 1 (Review of Newtonian Mechanics; typeset): This contains e.g. a discussion of the Galilei Group.
Chapter 4, sections 1-4 (Hamilton Formalism I; handwritten): A basic introduction to the Hamilton formulation of mechanics.
Chapter 4, sections 5-7 (Hamilton Formalism II; handwritten ): This contains e.g. an introduction to Hamilton-Jacobi theory.