PHYS486

Welcome to the Spring 2013 web page for PHYS486

Announcements

Final Exam: 144 Loomis, Tue. May 7 8:00-11:00 AM
(1/18/2013) Office hours have changed.

Lectures: Tue, Thu:9:30 - 10:50 AM in 144 Loomis Lab.

Instructor:
Shinsei Ryu
- e-mail: ryuu_at_illinois_dot_edu
- phone: 217 333 4229
- office: 2129 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)

Teaching assistant:
Wladimir Benalcazar
- e-mail: wbenalc2_at_illinois_dot_edu
- phone:
- office: 4113 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)

Homework Graders :
Chang-Tse Hsieh (Odd weeks)
- e-mail: chsieh9_at_illinois_dot_edu
- phone:
- office: 390H LSI
Anirbit Mukherjee (Even weeks)
- e-mail: amukher4_at_illinois_dot_edu

Homework

Homework sets will be assigned on Wednesday of each week. They will be due on the 2nd Monday after posting (12 days later). Homework sets should be placed in the 486 homework box (located on the north side of Loomis Lab, between rooms 267 and 271 LLP) by 04:00PM on the day of the due date. Unless a valid, verifyable excuse is given, homework sets which are submitted late will receive a 50% penalty. Homework sets which are turned in after 1:00pm on the Wednesday following the Monday deadline (14 days after the set is first posted) will receive no credit. You may discuss the homework problems with your classmates, but each student is required to provide his/her own solutions. The recommended problem sets taken from the text book (indicated in the homework) are not graded.

Grading policies

Your grade will be based on your performance on the quizzes (~25%), the midterm exam (~20%), the final exam (~30%), the homework assignments (~25%).

Office hours (starting in the week of 01/21/2013)

Tue :2:30pm - 3:30:pm Anirbit Mukherjee (@271 Loomis)
Wed 11:00 - 12:00noon Chang-Tse Hsieh (@390H LSI)
Wed 1:30 - 2:30 Shinsei Ryu (@ 2129 ESB)
Thu 3:30 - 4:30 Wladimir Benalcazar (@ 4113 ESB)

Tentative course syllabus

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion/Quiz	Homework
1	01/15	Classical mechanics, wave functions Lecnotes1	none	HW1 (due 01/28) HW1sol
	01/17	The Schrodinger eqn, time-indep. problems Lecnotes2
2	01/22	Time-indep. problem (quantum well) Lecnotes3	Dis2 , no Quiz	HW2 (due 02/04) HW2sol
	01/24	Free particle, Fourier analysis Lecnotes4
3	01/29	Fourier analysis, delta function potential Lecnotes5	Dis3 , Quiz3	HW3 (due 02/11) HW3sol
	01/31	delta function potential, quantum tunnelling
4	02/05	Time-indep. problem, quantum tunnelling Lecnotes6	Dis4 , Quiz4	HW4 (due 02/18) HW4sol
	02/07	Harmonic oscillator Lecnotes7
5	02/12	Harmonic oscillator	Dis5 , Quiz5	HW5 (due 02/25) HW5sol
	02/14	Formalism (Linear vector space) Lecnotes8
6	02/19	Formalism (Dirac notation) Lecnotes9	Dis6 , Quiz6	HW6 (due 03/04) HW6sol
	02/21	Formalism (Observables, Hermitian operators)
7	02/26	Formalism (Uncertainty principle)Lecnotes10	Dis7 , Quiz7	HW7 (due 03/11) HW7sol
	02/28	QM in 3D Lecnotes11
8	03/05	Midterm Exam	Dis8 , no Quiz	HW8 (due 03/25) HW8sol
	03/07	QM in 3D Lecnotes12
9	03/12	Angular momentum Lecnotes13	Dis9 , Quiz9	No HW
	03/14	Angular momentum Lecnotes14
10	03/19	Spring Break
	03/21	Spring Break
11	03/26	Radial equation Lecnotes15	Dis11 , Quiz11	HW11 (due 04/08) HW11sol
	03/28	Hydrogen atom Lecnotes16
12	04/02	Hydrogen atom, classical to quantum mechanics Lecnotes17	Dis12 , Quiz12	HW12 (due 04/15) HW12sol
	04/04	From classical to quantum mechanics Lecnotes18
13	04/09	Heisenberg picture Lecnotes19	Dis13 , Quiz13	HW13 (due 04/22) HW13sol
	04/11	Symmetry and symmetry transformation, Spin
14	04/16	Spin Lecnotes20	Dis14 , Quiz14	HW14 (due 04/29) HW14sol
	04/18	Spin
15	04/23	Spin	Dis15 , Quiz15	No HW
	04/25	Angular momentum addition Lecnotes21
16	04/30	Questions	no Dis, no Quiz	No HW
	05/02	no class