SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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L1 | Introduction to Superposition | |
L2 | Experimental Facts of Life | |
L3 | The Wave Function | Problem Set 1 Due |
L4 | Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty | |
L5 | Operators and the Schrödinger Equation | Problem Set 2 Due |
L6 | Time Evolution and the Schrödinger Equation | Problem Set 3 Due |
L7 | More on Energy Eigenstates | |
L8 | Quantum Harmonic Oscillator | Problem Set 4 Due |
L9 | Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator | |
L10 | Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation | Problem Set 5 Due |
E1 | Exam 1 | |
L11 | Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well | |
L12 | The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step | |
L13 | More on Scattering | Problem Set 6 Due |
L14 | Resonance and the S-Matrix | |
L15 | Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1 | Problem Set 7 Due |
L16 | Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2 | |
E2 | Exam 2 | Problem Set 8 Due |
L17 | More on Central Potentials | |
L18 | "Hydrogen" and its Discontents | |
L19 | Identical Particles | |
L20 | Periodic Lattices Part 1 | Problem Set 9 Due |
L21 | Periodic Lattices Part 2 | |
L22 | Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors | Problem Set 10 Due |
L23 | More on Spin | |
L24 | Entanglement: QComputing, EPR, and Bell's Theorem | |
E3 | Final Exam |