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 1-soln 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	Phase space, poissons brackets, canonical transformations	Sak Ch 2	Notes
9/28	Quantization,	Ch 2	Notes
9/30	Wave mechanics, energy eigenstates, propagators and resolvents		Notes
10/5	SHO and coherent states		Notes	HW 3 assigned (due Oct 19)
10/7	WKB approximation		Notes
10/12	Stokes phenomenon, Airy functions		Notes
10/14	Transition amplitudes, path integrals		Notes
10/19	Path Integral - Examples, imaginary time		Notes
10/21	Midterm Exam (in class)		Notes	Midterm formula-sheet (ch 2)
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