Quantum Mechanics

Professor: Fernando Brandao

office: 201 Annenberg
e-mail: fbrandao@caltech.edu

Teching Assistants: 

Nick Hunter-Jones          nickrhj@theory.caltech.edu
Chia-Hsien Shen              chshen@caltech.edu
Ke (Kevin) Ye                    kye@caltech.edu

Office hours:  

Tuesdays 7pm to 8:30pm (4th floor interaction area Lauristen)

Textbook: 

R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Springer Science 1980

Grading:

40%: homework
25%: mid term
35%: final

Homeworks are due before 5pm Wednesday (drop of: outside 418 Downs) 

- Each student is entitled to one late extension of up to one week.
- Any further late homework decreases the grade by half each day delayed (total/2 if one day late, total/4 if two days late, ...)

Syllabus:

1. Introduction

2. One-particle systems with two states and one-particle systems in one dimension 

3. Quantum mechanics in more tha one dimension with more than one particle.

4. Identical particles

5. Hydrogen atom

6. Angular momentum and spin

7. Time-independent perturbation theory

8. Time-dependent perturbation theory

9. Scattering theory

Homework: