PHYS581

Physics 581 - Quantum Mechanics - Spring 2016

Meets Tuesday & Thursday 2:00-3:20 in 158 Loomis

Instructor: Tom Faulkner

Office: 433 Loomis

Email: tomf at illinois dot edu

Office hours: Tuesday 3:30-4:30 or by appointment

Homework Grader: Mao-Chuang Yeh

Email: myeh2 at illinois dot edu

Office hours: TBA

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Announcements:	Date
FINAL EXAM	5/11
Here is last years exam - it was not a take-home and the topics covered last year were slightly different (so problem 1 will not be very relevant.)	5/5
Problem set 6 has been posted	4/27
The final take home exam will be availabilityle at the regularly scheduled exam time for our class - Tuesday May 10 at 7pm. I will make it available on the website. You should then drop them off in the HW box by Friday at 5pm - or email a scanned copy to me if you are not here for the drop off.
Problem set 4 is posted	4/8

A few practice questions for the midterm are here	3/25
The midterm will be on March 31st (Thursday) in class.
Problem set 3 is posted	2/25
Problem set 2 is posted. (You might find the exam practice from 580 last year useful. )
Problem set 1 solutions have been partially posted. The mathematica notebook as well. If you enjoyed problem 4 note that a similar calculation was done in the 70s by Bender and Wu also on a computer - they probably had to optimize their code a little more than you :)	2/8/16

Here are links to 580 lecture notes and 580 problem sets
Problem set 1 has been posted.	1/26/16
Welcome to 581. See you in class! The syllabus has been posted. Please check here regularly for announcements and updates to lecture notes and problem sets.	1/19/16

Course setup:

Problem sets:

There will be roughly 7~9 problem sets.
They will generally be posted on Monday and will be due the next Wednesday (9 days later.)
Solutions should be placed in the 581 homework box by 5pm on the due date
(the homework box is located on the north side of Loomis Lab, between rooms 267 and 271 LLP)
For practical reasons late problem sets will not be graded unless a verifiable excuse is given.
For grading purposes your lowest scoring problem set will be dropped
Mathematica or equivalent may be used. Please submit the input/output.
You may discuss the problems with your classmates but each student should provide his/her own solutions.
Please do not use solutions to the problems that might be available online. This is at best bad for your mastery of quantum mechanics and at worst detectable by the TA.

Grading

Midterm and final exam instruction