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Graduate Quantum Mechanics GR6037

Professor Norman Christ

This site provides information about this course, offered in the Fall of 2017

Professor Christ:

Email: mailto:[email protected]
Office: 801 Pupin
Telephone: 212 854 3307
Fax: 212 932 3169
Office hours: Typically Wednesdays 4:15 - 5:15: check below for weekly changes.

Text books:

Required: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (Lecture Notes & Supplements in Physics), Gordon Baym, Perseus Books, ISBN: 0805306676
Recommended: Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals, Gottfried and Yan, second edition
Additional text books.

Assignments

Class time and place: 8:40-9:50, Monday and Wednesday, 329 Pupin.

Problem sessions: Fridays, 2:45-4:15 pm, in 420 Pupin.

Syllabus, schedule and suggested reading: schedule.pdf (from two years ago, to be updated)

Notes on topics presented in class:

degenerate perturbation theory

Homework:

Problem sets will be distributed on this website on Wednesdays and will consist of 3-4 problems
They will be due the following Friday (nine days later).
Completed problem sets can be turned in during the problem session or put in the GR6037 box in the Department office.

Midterm exam:

Held in class on Wednesday November 1st.
Covers all material including angular momentum and spin-1/2.
The exam is "closed book" but a single 8.5"x11" formula sheet is allowed.
A practice exam has been posted and will discussed in 10/27/2017 problem session.
An 8.5" x 11" formula sheet is allowed during the exam, written on both sides.

Final exam:

The exam will be held on Monday, December 18 from 9:00 am to 12:00 in room 329.
A practice exam has been posted and will be discussed in the review session below.
There will be a review session from 12:00-2:00 pm on Friday, Dec 15 in Schermerhorn 467 Extension

Teaching assistant: The graders for the course are Bigeng Wang and Tianle Wang. Questions about the problems and grading can be directed to them as well as to Prof. Christ.

Grades: Grades will be determined from a weighted average of the homework (20%), the midterm exam (30%) and the final exam (50%).

Academic integrity

This site last modified December 13, 2017.

Recent Changes

A description of degenerate perturbation theory has been posted (Nov 28, 2017)

Problem set #11, due Friday Dec 8st has been posted. (Dec 1, 2017)

We will have the usual problem session on Friday, Dec 8th at 2:45 (Dec 1, 2017)

There will be office hours on Wednesday, 12/13 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm (Dec 8, 2017)

A practice exam has been posted (Dec 8, 2017)

There will be a review session from 12:00-2:00 on Friday, Dec 15th in Schermerhorn 467 Extension

The description of degenerate perturbation theory with a corrected and improved Appendix has been posted (Dec 13, 2017)