Time and place: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 11:00 -- 11:50, Room 210 Physics
Bldg.
Instructor: H.J. Weber,
Room 106C
Physics Bldg, Tel. 924-6810, hjw@theory.phys.virginia.edu
My office hours in spring: Monday, Wednesday & Friday 9 to 10 am, or any other time you
find me in my office.
Grader: David Djajaputra,
Room 157 Physics Building, New North Wing, Tel. 924-7958,
dd4b@virginia.edu
Text: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (1994)
by D. J. Griffiths
PHYS 356 is the continuation of Quantum I (Phys. 355) for physics majors.
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PHYS 356 is offered in the spring. It starts with a brief review of quantum
mechanics I, continues with gauge invariance and applications,
scattering theory, perturbation theories, identical particles and WKB
approximation
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EXAMS: Midterm will be around Wednesday, March 4 at 11 am in Rm 210 Physics Bldg.
Final on day, from to in Rm 210 Physics Bldg.
There are weekly to bi-weekly problem sets counting ~30% towards the grade,
midterm ~30% and final ~40%.
Syllabus 1998:
1. Brief introduction,
gauge invariance and Bohm-Aharonov effect.
2. Scattering theory
Brief review of Rutherford cross section for Coulomb scattering,
elastic scattering amplitude using free Green's function,
Born approximation,
charge form factor.
Partial wave analysis for spherically symmetric potentials,
phase shifts,
hard sphere scattering,
scattering length.
Optical theorem.
3. Perturbation theories:
non-degenerate and degenerate with applications:
Zeeman and Stark effects,
spin-orbit interaction.
Variational method with application.
Time dependent:
Fermi's golden rule,
Absorption and spontaneous emission of radiation.
4. Identical particles,
Pauli principle,
Young tableaux.
5. WKB approximation with tunneling application.
Your comments, questions, suggestions, and inquiries about this course are welcome.