PHYS 487 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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Week | Date | Lecture | Discussion | Homework | Reading |
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1 | 08/21 | Review of Phys486 | No Discussion | ||
08/23 | Symmetries and Transformations in Quantum Mechanics | 6.1, 6.2 | |||
2 | 08/28 | Symmetry and Degeneracy | 6.3--6.5 | ||
08/30 | Symmetry and Degeneracy | 6.6, 6.8 | |||
3 | 09/04 | Labor Day | 7.1 | ||
09/06 | Time-independent perturbation theory I | ||||
4 | 09/11 | Time-independent perturbation theory II | HW3 (due 9/19) | 7.1, 7.2 | |
09/13 | Degenerate perturbation theory | 7.2 | |||
5 | 09/18 | Relativistic effects in the hydrogen atom | none | 7.3.1 | |
09/20 | Spin-orbit coupling | 7.3.1, 7.3.2 | |||
6 | 09/25 | Review | No Discussion | ||
09/27 | |||||
7 | 10/02 | Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes) |
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7.3.2, 4.4.3 | |
10/04 | Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes) | 7.3.2, 4.4.3 | |||
8 | 10/09 | Zeeman effect (lec11 notes) |
HW5 (due 10/17) |
7.4 | |
10/11 | The variational principle | 8.1,8.2 | |||
9 | 10/16 | The hydrogen ion and the helium atom | 8.3, 8.4 | ||
10/18 | Time dependent Hamiltonians | 11.1 | |||
10 | 10/23 | Time-dependent perturbation theory | 11.1, 11.2 | ||
10/25 | Emission and absortion of radiation | 11.2, 11.3 | |||
11 | 11/30 | Spontaneous emission and Fermi's golden Rule | none | 11.4 | |
11/01 | Adiabatic approximation | 11.5 | |||
12 | 11/06 | No Discussion |
solutions |
11.5 | |
11/08 | Adiabatic theorem | ||||
13 | 11/13 | Geometric phase | none | 4.5 | |
11/15 | coupling to EM fields | 4.5 | |||
14 | 11/20 | Thanksgiving break | No Discussion | none | |
11/23 | Thanksgiving break | ||||
15 | 11/27 | Aharanov-Bohm and Landau Levels (Video) |
solutions |
5.3.1 | |
11/29 | Class cancelled | 5.3.2 | |||
16 | 12/04 | Free electron gas | No Discussion | none | |
12/06 | Electrons in solid | ||||
12/15 |
Final exam: 1:30-4:30, Loomis 144 (where lectures are) |