This webpage contains the schedule of weekly activities, including lectures, tutorial problems, suggested readings, and the date for the mid-semester test for PHYS2041.
PHYS2041 - Quantum Physics
1 Course Timetable and Reading Material for 2018 |
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Tue: Lecture, 11:00am-11:50am; 42-115
Wed: Lecture, 2:00pm-2:50pm; 01-E302
Fri: Tutorials, 9:00am-9:50am, 10:00am-10:50am, 11:00am-11:50am, 12:00noon-12:50pm, 1:00pm-1:50pm: all in 7-220
Labs: Tue, Thu, and Fri, 2:00pm--4:50pm.
4 labs to choose from, 2 labs must be completed over the course of the semester (2 x 2 afternoons).
Consultation:
Tuesdays, 12:00noon-12:50pm, in 6-402
1.2 Tentative schedule of weekly lectures (subject to change), tutorials, and the mid-semester test |
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Readings are from the following text:
1. David Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.
Students who would like to do extra-curriculum reading and familiarise themselves with more advanced topics are encouraged to read the following texts:
1. A. S. Davydov, Quantum Mechanics (Pergamon, 1980).
2. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum mechanics, 3rd edition (Pergamon, 1980).
These extra-curriculum readings are not part of the formal assessment.
| Week 1 |
Tue
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24 Jul |
Lecture 1. The origins of the quantum theory: Quantum Physics in a nutshell.
[Griffiths, Ch. 1; Messiah Ch.1] |
Wed
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25 Jul
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Lecture 2. The origins of the quantum theory: Three failures of classical physics.
[Griffiths, Ch. 1; Messiah Ch.1] |
Fri
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27 Jul |
Tutorial 1 |
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| Week 2 |
| Tue |
31Jul |
Lecture 3. The wave function. The Schroedinger equation.
[Griffiths, Ch. 1.1 - 1.3] |
| Wed |
1 Aug |
Lecture 4. Normalisation. Expectation values.
[Griffiths, Ch. 1.1 - 1.5] |
| Fri |
3 Aug |
Tutorial 2 |
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| Week 3 |
| Tue |
7 Aug |
Lecture 5. Measurement. Momentum. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
[Griffiths, Ch. 1.5-1.6] |
| Wed |
8 Aug |
Lecture 6: Time-independent Schrödinger equation. Stationary states.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.1]
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| Fri |
10 Aug |
Tutorial 3 |
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| Week 4 |
| Tue |
14 Aug |
Public Holiday |
| Wed |
15 Aug |
Lecture 7: Particle in an infinite square well. Part I: Energy Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.2]
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| Fri |
17 Aug |
Tutorial 4 |
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| Week 5 |
| Tue |
21 Aug |
Lecture 8: Particle in an infinite square well. Part II: Ortogonality, Completeness and Superpositions.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.2] |
| Wed |
22 Aug |
Lecture 9: The Harmonic Oscillator. Part I: General features and the analytic method.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.3 and Section 2.3.2] |
| Fri |
24 Aug |
Tutorial 5 |
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| Week 6 |
| Tue |
28 Aug |
Lecture 10: The Harmonic Oscillator. Part II: The algebraic method of ladder operators.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.3.1] |
| Wed |
29 Aug |
Lecture 11: The free particle. Fourier transforms.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.4] |
| Fri |
31 Aug |
Tutorial 6 |
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Week 7
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| Tue |
4 Sep |
Lecture 12: The Dirac delta-function. The delta-function poetntial.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.5]
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| Wed |
4 Sep |
Lecture 13: The finite square well.
[Griffiths, Ch. 2.6] |
| Fri |
7 Sep |
Tutorial 7 |
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Week 8
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| Tue |
11 Sep |
Lecture 14: Revision.
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| Wed |
12 Sep |
Mid-Semester Test |
| Fri |
14 Sep |
Tutorial 8, and solutions to mid-semester test problems. |
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| Week 9 |
Tue
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18 Sep |
Lecture 15: The formalism. Hilbert space. Observables.
[Griffiths, Ch. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3] |
| Wed |
19 Sep |
Lecture 16: Dirac notation. Generalised statistical notation. Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
[Griffiths, Ch. 3.4, 3.5, 3.6] |
| Fri |
21 Sep |
Tutorial 9 |
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| MID SEMESTER BREAK |
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| Week 10 |
| Tue |
2 Oct |
Lecture 17: End of Formalism. Schroedinger equation in spherical coordaintes.
[Griffiths, Ch. 3] |
| Wed |
3 Oct |
Lecture 18: Schroedinger equation in spherical coordinates.
[Griffiths, Ch. 4] |
| Fri |
5 Oct |
Tutorial 10 |
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| Week 11 |
| Tue |
9 Oct |
Lecture 19: The hydrogen atom.
[Griffiths, Ch. 4] |
| Wed |
10 Oct |
Lecture 20: Angular momentum.
[Griffiths, Ch. 4]
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| Fri |
12 Oct |
Tutorial 11 |
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| Week 12 |
| Tue |
16 Oct |
Lecture 21: Spin Angular Momentum.
[Griffiths, Ch. 4] |
| Wed |
17 Oct |
Lecture 22: Identical Particles; bosons and fermions. Two particle systems.
[Griffiths, Ch. 5.2] |
| Fri |
19 Oct |
Tutorial 12 |
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| Week 13 |
| Tue |
23 Oct |
Lecture 23: The EPR paradox and Bell's theorem.
[Griffiths, Ch. 12] |
| Wed |
24 Oct |
Lecture 24: Spin (again); and Lecture 25: Final Revision.
[Griffiths, Ch. 4.4, particularly Section 4.4.1]
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| Fri |
26 Oct |
Tutorial 13 |
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| 3 Nov - 17 Nov |
Examination period |
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