Physics Solutions Baym Quantum Mechanics 3.9
Physics 606: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
credit: physicsworld.com
Instructor: Roland E. Allen
1-979-845-4341, Room M213 MIST
allen@tamu.edu, http://people.tamu.edu/~allen
Office hours: 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; or by appointment
This course will meet MWF at 9:10 - 10:00 in Room 109 (MPHY).
Textbook: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, by Gordon Baym (with supplementary material from the textbooks by Merzbacher, Sakurai, and others). This book was chosen out of the many excellent textbooks on quantum mechanics because it contains very physical and clear discussions of the central topics. The present course will essentially consist of the material in Chapters 3-7, 9, and 11-12 of this textbook, with only a few changes in notation and emphasis, and a few extra topics. The book is so well-written that it is easy to underestimate its depth, and how the main principles of quantum mechanics are covered in the clearest and most economical way. You may want to bring your copy of the textbook to class for easier note-taking. As evidence that our textbook and course are relevant to physics in general, let us note: 'Theoretical physicist Gordon Baym has been selected to receive the 2021 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research for "major discoveries in theoretical condensed matter and many-body physics, neutron star structure and composition, quark matter and quark-gluon plasma physics, and in atomic physics and ultracold quantum gases."'
Evaluation:
Homework 35%
2 "midterm" exams 40%
final exam (comprehensive) 25%
Homework is due at the beginning of class each Friday (except for spring break and the homework set due on Wednesday, April 13). Homework late by < 48 hours, 1/2 credit. Homework late by > 48 hours, no credit.
The exams will be conducted at 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 24; Thursday, March 31; and Thursday, May 5.
We will have optional evening sessions for homework presentations by students (for extra credit) shortly before each exam.
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Here are copies of some old exams, to illustrate the format only. The content of the exams for this semester will be quite different , of course.
2021 Final Exam as pdf , solution to 2021 Final Exam as pdf
2021 Exam 1 as pdf , solution to 2021 Exam 1 as pdf
2021 Exam 2 as pdf , solution to 2021 Exam 2 as pdf
Exam 1 as pdf , solution to Exam 1 as pdf
Exam 2 as pdf , solution to Exam 2 as pdf
Final Exam as pdf , solution to Final Exam as pdf
Exam 1 as pdf
Exam 2 as pdf
Final Exam as pdf
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HOMEWORK
1. January 21: 3.2
2. January 28: 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
3. February 4: 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
4. February 11: 4.13, 4.14, 4.15 (a) and (b); S 2.4, S 2.36
5. February 18: S 2.6, S 2.15, S 2.17
6. February 25: 5.1, 5.2 (a) & (b), 5.2 (c) and (d), 5.3, 5.4 (a) and (b)
7. March 4: 5.4 (c), 5.4 (d), 5.5 (a), 5.5 (b), 5.6 (a)
8. March 11 : 6.1 first sentence only, 6.2 (a), 6.2 (b), 6.2 (c), 6.3
9 . March 25: 6.5 (a) & (b), 7.1 (a), 7.1 (b), 7.2, 7.3 (a) -- ground state (of hydrogen atom) only in all parts of 7.3
[See https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ConnectionBetweenQuantumMechanicalHydrogenAtomAndHarmonicOsc/ for the general case. See also R. J. Yáñez, W. Van Assche, and J. S. Dehesa, "Position and momentum information entropies of the D-dimensional harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom", Phys. Rev. A 50, 3065 (1994).]
10. April 1: 7.3 (b) again ground state (of hydrogen atom) only, 7.3 (c), 7.4 (a)
11. April 8: 7.4 (b) (but Eq. (7-31) only), 7.4 (c), 9.2, 12.4 (a)
12. April 13 [Wednesday] : HW 11.1, HW11.2 (a), HW11.2 (b) and (c) in HW11-2-problems.pdf below,
HW11-2-problems.pdf
13. April 22 : 11.7, S 5.11 (a) and (b) only; HW 12.1, HW 12.2, HW 12.3 in attached HW12-3-problems.pdf below
HW12-3-problems.pdf
14. April 29: 11.3 (a), 11.3 (b), 12.1; HW13.1 and HW13.2 (in HW13-2-problems.pdf below).
HW13-2-problems.pdf
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Physics Solutions Baym Quantum Mechanics 3.9
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