PHYS 486 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
Warning: schedule may shift as we go through the course.
The table below shows the topics we will cover in the course as well as the schedule for discussions, homework, and exams. Exact lecture dates for the topics may shift as the course progresses. If you have any issues logging in to view any of the secured documents below, please try adding "uofi\" (without the quotes) in front of your netid.
The reading assignments are strongly recommended accompanying reading to the lectures. They refer to chapters in Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Ed.
Lecture notes for each week's lectures are available for download on Thurs or Fri. They are provided as a help in looking back what was covered, not to replace reading, or taking your own notes during lecture. They are my own notes for delivering lectures, so I cannot give any guarantee for legibility.
To work with the code exercise notebooks for discussion, see the info on using Google Colab.
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Discussions | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 Jan 23 Jan | Introduction | G Preface, G § 1.1-4 | no discussions this week | ||
| 2 | 28 Jan 30 Jan | infinite square well | G 1.5-6 G 2.1-2 |
| HW1 (due 2/4) | |
| 3 | 4 Feb 6 Feb | the postulates of QM finite square well | G 2.1-2 G 2.6 (bound | HW2 (due 2/11) | ||
| 4 | 11 Feb 13 Feb | SHO position space (plot of eigenfunctions/values) | G 2.4 G 2.3.2 | D03 | HW3: Particle in a Box (computational, due 2/27) | |
| 5 | 18 Feb 20 Feb | Review and synthesis | G 3.1-3.3 | D04, solutions | ||
| 6 | 25 Feb 27 Feb | Exam I | G 3.1-3.6 | D05, solutions | HW4 (due 3/4) solutions | |
| 7 | 4 Mar 6 Mar | SHO take II: operators | G 3.1-3.6 G 2.3.1 | D06, solutions | HW5 (due 3/11) solutions | |
| 8 | 11 Mar 13 Mar | 3D, central potentials | G 4.1 | D07, solutions | HW6 (due 3/25) solutions | |
| spring break | ||||||
| 9 | 25 Mar 27 Mar | Angular momentum | G 4.3 | D08, solutions | HW7 (due 4/1) solutions | |
| 10 | 1 Apr 3 Apr | review and synthesis | D09, solutions | |||
| 11 | 8 Apr 10 Apr | Exam II Radial equation | G 4.1 | D10, solutions | HW8 (due 4/15) solutions | |
| 12 | 15 Apr 17 Apr | Coulomb potential Spin | G 4.2, G 4.4.1,4.4.2 | D11, solutions | HW9 (due 4/22) solutions | |
| 13 | 22 Apr 24 Apr | Identical particles | G 5.1 G 5.2 | D12, solutions | HW10 (due 4/29) solutions | |
| 14 | 29 Apr 1 May | entanglement | G 12.1-12.2 | D13, solutions |
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| 15 | 6 May | Review and synthesis | G § 4.4 | |||
| 16 | TBA | Final exam: TBA | ||||