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:
Caleb Holt
office: KLA 103A
office hours: M 12-1p (W 12-1p in physics help room)
email:
cholt@cas.uoregon.edu
Schedule: TTh 10-11:50a, 318 Willamette
Course reference number: 15117
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 to purchase for this course. The main reference for this course will be online notes posted here.
Much of this material is also 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 Tuesday, 5 November 2019 (during the sixth week of class).
Final exam: The final exam is scheduled for
Monday, December 9, 8-10a (!),
Tuesday, December 10, 2:45p,
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 during this term. (I may change things up and throw in some other topics.)