Physics 125 Page
Quantum Mechanics
Instructor: Frank Porter
Office at Caltech: 348 Lauritsen
Mail Stop: 356-48
Telephone: (626) 395 6777
Fax: (626) 584 9304 or (626) 795 3951
Email: fcp@hep.caltech.edu
Secretary: Betty Smith Phone: (626) 395
6667
betty@hep.caltech.edu
Office at SLAC: 107 Research Office Building (Bldg. 48), Mail Stop 34
Phone: (650) 926 3516
Fax: (650) 926 3882
- TA: Anura Abeyesinghe (anura@caltech.edu)
- TA: Joan Erwin (rjerwin@caltech.edu)
- TA: Donal O'Connell (donal@caltech.edu)
Problem Sessions: Every Monday and Tuesday, 5:00-6:00, in 119 Downs.
Late policy: If you ask in advance of due date, extensions of up to a week
may be granted. Otherwise, there is a 50% late penalty.
Homework may be turned into, and picked up from, the "coffee room" on the second floor of Lauritsen (same as last quarter).
Please do not look at the solution to
a problem before you have turned it in!
Text: None, we'll be using course notes, below.
- Course Description, including outline [PDF][PS]
- Course Notes
- Approximate Methods [PDF][PS] Solution to problems [PDF][PS]
- Scattering [PDF][PS] Solution to problems [PDF][PS]
- Identical Particles [PDF][PS] Solution to problems [PDF][PS]
- Electromagnetic Interactions [PDF][PS] Solution to problems [PDF][PS]
- Density Matrix Formalism [PDF][PS] Solution to problems [PDF][PS]
- Supplementary Notes of Possible Interest
- Complex variables - review [PDF][PS]
- Some mathematics definitions (Hilbert spaces) [PDF][PS]
- Groups, Lie algebras [PDF][PS]
- Resolvents and Green's Functions [PDF][PS]
- Angular Momentum [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 1 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 1 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 2 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 3 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 4 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 13 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 5 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 6 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 20 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 7 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 24 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 8 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 28 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 9 [PDF][PS]
Problem set number 10 Not required, do not turn in! [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 38 [PDF][PS]
This page last updated on June 3, 2004.
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