Instructor: Daniel A. Steck
Office: 277 Willamette Phone: 346-5313
email: dsteck@uoregon.edu
Office hours: walk-in and by appointment (best to email first)
Teaching Assistant:
Wes Erickson
office: WIL 272
office hours: W 3-4p (Th 1-2p in physics help room)
email:
wwe@uoregon.edu
Schedule: TTh 10-11:50a, 318 Willamette
Course reference number: 15082
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: none
Links: news, course notes, homework sets and keys.
This course is a more-or-less standard introduction to quantum mechanics at the graduate level, one of the core components of your Ph.D. studies. This is the first of a 3-quarter sequence. This course will also assume you have studied quantum mechanics for at least one term at the undergraduate level.
Recommended Texts:
There is no required textbook for this course. I will provide my notes (either typed or handwritten, as time allows) for the course material as we go along. However, this material is covered well in many excellent texts. A few of the more widely used and/or interesting ones that you may want to have in your collection are:
Grades for the course will be based on homework, a midterm exam, and a final exam. The relative weights will be as follows:
Homework: about 6-8 problem sets will be assigned during the term.
Midterm exam: The midterm exam will be held in class on Thursday, 1 November 2018 (during the sixth week of class).
Final exam: The final exam is scheduled for
Monday, December 3, 8-10a (!),
Tuesday, December 4, 12:30-2:30p,
in 318 Willamette.
Pass/fail grading option: Since this is a core graduate course, you should take the graded option.
This is a tentative list of topics we will cover in this and the following course(s) in the sequence. Note that it is likely we won't get through all of this in one term.