| Lecture Notes
These lecture notes are not intended to be exhaustive or faithful
accounts of everything discussed in class; rather, they're intended as an
outline and study aid. In them I briefly discuss some of the highlights of
each week's topic. These lecture notes can also be found
on the
ASO webpage.
| Lecture Notes Number |
Date Handed Out in Class |
| #1(a): The Formal Approach to Quantum Mechanics |
Monday, August 23 |
| #1(b): Formal Structure of Quantum Mechanics (continued) |
Friday, August 27 |
| #1(c): Summary of Formal Structure |
Wednesday, September 8 |
| #1.5: Spin 1/2 Systems |
Wednesday, September 1 |
| #2: Time-Independent Perturbation Theory |
Wednesday, September 14 |
| #3: The Real Hydrogen Atom |
Wednesday, September 22 |
| #4: Addition of Angular Momenta |
Friday, September 24 |
| #5: Atoms in Magnetic and Electric Fields; Degenerate Perturbation Theory |
Friday, October 1 |
| #6: Many-Particle Systems; Identical Particles |
Friday, October 15 |
| #7: The Helium Atom |
Friday, October 22 |
| #8: Many-Electron Atoms |
Monday, October 25 |
| #9: Molecules |
Wednesday, November 3 |
| #10: The Free Electron Model of Metals |
Friday, November 5 |
| #11: Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory |
Friday, November 12 |
| #12: Radiative Transitions in Atoms; Scattering Theory |
Wednesday, November 17 |
| #13: Scattering Theory: Partial Wave Analysis; Born Approximation |
Monday, November 29 |
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