PHYS 580 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Final exam: 1:30pm–4:30pm, Tuesday, December 15, in class.

Date Topic Reading Lecture Notes HW
8/24 Intro, syllabus etc. Math of QM   Notes
8/26 More math of QM, operators, eigenvalues .. Sak Ch 1 Notes  
8/31 Math of QM   Notes HW 1 assigned
9/2 Infinite dimensional Hilbert Spaces   Notes  
9/7 Labor Day – No class      
9/9 Operators, unbounded, self adjoint    Notes  
9/14 QM Postulates, Simple quantum systems Sak Ch 1 Notes

HW 1 due (on gradescope use code: VE83ZG)

HW 2 assigned (due Sep 29)

9/16 Uncertainty princplie, tensor products, density matrices Sak Ch 1 Notes  
9/21 Classical mechanics Rob Leigh's notes (ch 2) Notes  
9/23   Sak Ch 2 Notes  
9/28     Notes  
9/30     Notes  
10/5     Notes  
10/7     Notes  
10/12     Notes  
10/14     Notes  
10/19     Notes  
10/21 Midterm Exam (in class)   Notes  
10/26     Notes  
10/28     Notes  
11/2     Notes  
11/4     Notes  
11/9     Notes  
11/11     Notes  
11/16     Notes  
11/18     Notes  
11/23 Thanksgiving Break – No class      
11/25 Thanksgiving Break – No class      
11/30     Notes  
12/2     Notes  
12/7     Notes  
12/9     Notes  
12/15 Final Exam, 1:30pm–4:30pm, in class