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Schedule

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Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Homework	Reading
1	08/23	Review of Phys486	none		review Griffiths chapter 2
	08/25	Review; time-independent perturbation theory			G 6.1
2	08/30	time-independent perturbation theory	Discussion 1, solutions	HW1 (due 09/3), solutions	G 6.1
	09/01	degenerate perturbation theory			G 6.2
3	09/06	Labor Day	Discussion 2, solutions	HW2 (due 9/10), solutions	G 6.2, 6.3.1
	09/08	degenerate perturbation theory; relativistic corrections
4	09/13	spin-orbit corrections; addition of angular momenta	Discussion 3, solutions	HW3 (due 9/17), solutions	G 6.3.1, 6.3.2
	09/15	addition of angular momenta			G 6.3.2, G 4.4.3
5	09/20	the Zeeman effect	Discussion 4, solutions	HW4 (due 10/01), solutions	G 6.4
	09/22	hyperfine structure
6	09/27	Midterm 1	Discussion 5, solutions		G 7.1
	09/29	Variational principle
7	10/04	the helium atom	Discussion 6,solutions	HW5 (due 10/8): make up week (see announcements)	G 7.2
	10/06	the hydrogen ion			G 7.3
8	10/11	Time-dependent perturbation theory	Discussion 7, solutions	HW6 (due 10/15), solutions	G 9.1
	10/13	Time-dependent perturbation theory
9	10/18	absorption and emission	Discussion 8, solutions	HW7 (due 10/22), solutions	G 9.2, 9.3
	10/20	spontaneous emisison, dipole selection rules
10	10/25	selection rules; sudden approximation	Discussion 9, solutions	HW8 (due 10/29), solutions	G 9.3, 10.1
	10/27	adiabatic approximation
11	11/01	review/synthesis	none
	11/03	Midterm 2
12	11/08	adiabatic approximation and geometric phase	Discussion 10, solutions	HW9 (due 11/12)	G 10.1-10.2
	11/10	coupling to EM fields
13	11/15	Aharonov-Bohm	Discussion 11	HW9 (due 11/19), solutions	G 8.1
	11/17	WKB
14	11/22	Thanksgiving break	none	none
	11/24	Thanksgiving break
15	11/29	WKB	none	HW 10 (due 12/03), solutions	G 8.2-3
	12/01	WKB
16	12/06	review/synthesis	none	none
	12/08	Questions
	12/10	Final exam

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