Physics 195 Page
Advanced 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
Mail Stop 103-33, 1st floor East Bridge
Office 253 Lauritsen
Office hours 10:00-12:00 (noon) on Tuesdays
(626)585-9304
Class Room: 103 Downs
Class Times: MW 09:30-11:00
Late policy: If you ask in advance of due date, extensions of up to a week
may be granted.
Text: There is no assigned textbook for this course. There are many
quantum mechanics texts on the market, and you will probably want to invest
in one or two. We will be using notes posted to this web page.
NOTES
(Remark: Posted solutions are not necessarily "complete" representations of what a good homework should look like; the intent is to at least deal with some of the most difficult points.)
- Course Description, including Outline [PDF][PS]
- Course Notes
- Preliminaries [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Ideas of Quantum Mechanics [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Path Integrals: An Example [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Density Matrix Formalism [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- The KZero Two-State System [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- The Simple Harmonic Oscillator [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Solving the Schr\"odinger Equation: Resolvents [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Rotations, Angular Momentum [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Approximate Methods [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Scattering [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Identical Particles [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Electromagnetic Interactions [PDF][PS] Solutions to exercises [PDF][PS]
- Second Quantization [PDF][PS]
- Superconductivity (Scanned Handwritten Notes!) [PDF] Second part [PDF]
- Supplementary Notes
- Complex variables - review [PDF][PS]
- Some mathematics definitions (Hilbert spaces) [PDF][PS]
- Groups, Lie algebras [PDF][PS]
PROBLEM SETS
- Problem Set 1 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 2 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 3 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 4 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 18 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 5 [PDF][PS] Solution to problems 24,29 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 6 [PDF][PS] Solution to problems 33,34 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 7 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 40 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 8 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 9 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 10 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 50 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 11 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 55 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 12 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 58 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 13 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 64 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 14 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 15 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 16 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 79 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 17 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 81 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 18 [PDF][PS] Solution to problems 86,87 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 19 [PDF][PS] Solution to problem 91 [PDF][PS]
- Problem Set 20 [PDF][PS]
This page last updated on March 13, 2003.
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