Assignment
#1:
Read
Shankar, Chapter 1. Try to do all the
exercises! (But do not
hand in your solutions.)
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Assignment
#2:
The early history of QM in phase space is described here, while
an introductory chapter from my favorite book on the subject
(ahem!) is here.
You should read these at your leisure. Here
are some videos of evolving WFs.
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Assignment
#3: Do HW problems 1 - 4
assigned in class. Due Monday, 6 February.
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Assignment
#4: Read Shankar, Chapters 2 & 3. Solve all 10 exercises marked
by ⋆s. Solutions due Wednesday, 22 February.
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| Assignment #5: Read
Shankar, Chapter 4. Again, try to do all the
exercises! (But do not
hand in your solutions.) |
| Assignment #6: Do
in-class HW problems
5-8. These are due Wednesday, 29 February.
(Here is a review of
complex variables.) |
Assignment #7: Read
Shankar, Chapter 5. Do all 7 ⋆'d problems.
Solutions for these are due Wednesday, 7 March.
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| Assignment #8: Read
Shankar, Chapters 6 & 7. Do in-class HW problems 9 & 10.
These and any delinquent
problems are due 19 March. |
| Assignment #9: Read
Shankar, Chapter 8, and Chapter 21, pp 581-587. Do
in-class HW problems
11-13. |
| Assignment #10: Read
Shankar, Chapter 9. Do problems 9.4.1-4. These
and in-class problems 11-13 are due Monday, 9 April. |
| Assignment #11: Read
Shankar, Chapter 11, pp 279-296, and Chapter 12. Do
Problems 12.3.7, 12.3.8, 12.4.4, and 12.5.1. You may
also enjoy reading F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 49 (1982)
957-959. |
Assignment #12: Read
Shankar, Chapter 13. Also see G. Valent, Am. J. Phys.
71 (2003) 171-175 [arXiv quant-ph/0212010].
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| Assignment #13: Do
Problems 12.5.7, 12.6.2, and 12.6.3, in Shankar, and
in-class HW problem 14. |
Assignment #14: If you plan
to take PHY671 in the fall, during summer break you might
want to read Chapter 10 and the rest of Chapter 11 in
Shankar, so that your QM skills don't atrophy.
Otherwise, enjoy your summer. (And don't miss the
transit of Venus on June 5 & 6.)
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