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Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Homework	Reading
1	08/26	Review of Phys486	No Discussion
	08/28	Symmetries and Transformations in Quantum Mechanics			6.1, 6.2
2	09/02	Labor Day	Discussion 1 solutions	HW1 (due 09/10) solutions
	09/04	Symmetry and Degeneracy			6.3--6.5
3	09/09	Symmetry and Degeneracy	Discussion 2 solutions	HW2 (due 9/17, now 9/18) solutions	6.6, 6.8 7.1
	09/11	Time-independent perturbation theory I
4	09/16	Time-independent perturbation theory II	Discussion 3 solutions	HW3 (due 9/24) solutions	7.1, 7.2
	09/18	Degenerate perturbation theory			7.2
5	09/23	Relativistic effects in the hydrogen atom	Discussion 4 solutions	none	7.3.1
	09/25	Spin-orbit coupling			7.3.1, 7.3.2
6	09/30	Review - No in person class. Video to be posted here Midterm 1 - Review video Midterm 1 - Review lecture notes	No Discussion	HW4 (due 10/9) solutions
	10/2	Midterm 1 - Last years Formula Sheet
7	10/07	Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes)	Discussion 5 solutions		7.3.2, 4.4.3
	10/09	Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes)			7.3.2, 4.4.3
8	10/14	Zeeman effect (lec11 notes)	Discussion 6 solutions	HW5 (due 10/22) solutions	7.4
	10/16	The variational principle			8.1,8.2
9	10/21	The hydrogen ion and the helium atom	Discussion 7 solutions	HW6 (due 10/30) solutions	8.3, 8.4
	10/23	Time dependent Hamiltonians			11.1
10	10/28	Time-dependent perturbation theory	Discussion 8 solutions	HW7 (due 11/6) solutions	11.1, 11.2
	10/30	Emission and absortion of radiation			11.2, 11.3
11	11/4	Spontaneous emission and Fermi's golden Rule	Discussion 9 solutions	none	11.4
	11/6	Adiabatic approximation			11.5
12	11/11	Midterm 2 (includes formula sheet) Solutions	No Discussion	HW8 (due 11/20) solutions	11.5
	11/13	Adiabatic theorem
13	11/18	Geometric phase	Discussion 10 solutions	none	4.5
	11/20	coupling to EM fields			4.5
14	11/25	Thanksgiving break	No Discussion	none
	11/27	Thanksgiving break
15	12/2	Aharanov-Bohm and Landau Levels (Video)	Discussion 11 solutions	HW 9 (due 12/10) solutions	5.3.1
	12/4	Many body quantum mechanics			5.3.2
16	12/09	Free electron gas	No Discussion	none
	12/11	Electrons in solid
		Review lecture Final exam:  TBA

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