Physics 401 - Fall 2011 - Prof. Hall - M/W/F 10:00 to 10:50 am, W 11:00 to 11:50
Week	Date	Lecture Topics	Griffiths	Liboff	Homework Due
1	31-Aug	Two slit experiment, complex numbers, Diff. Eqs.	1.1, 1.2	2.5-2.9
	2-Sep	Waves, Expectation values, Dirac Delta fnc.	1.3	2.6, 3.2-3.3
2	5-Sep	Labor day - no class
	7-Sep	Fourier Series and Transform			1
	9-Sep	Fourier Series and Transform
3	12-Sep	Postulates of QM	1.4, 1.5	3.1-3.2
	14-Sep	Postulates of QM	1.1, 1.2	3.3-3.4	2
	16-Sep	General Solution to the TDSE	2.1	3.5, 6.1
4	19-Sep	Stationary States, Particle in the box	2.1, 2.2	4.1, 5.1
	21-Sep	Particle in the box	2.2	5.1, 6.1	3
	23-Sep	Free Particle	2.4	5.1, 6.1
5	26-Sep	Free Particle	2.4	5.1, 6.1
	28-Sep	Orthonormality and completeness	3.1	4.3, 4.4	4
	30-Sep	Dirac notation	3.1, 3.4, 3.6	4.3, 4.4
6	3-Oct	Dirac notation & exam review	3.1, 3.4 3.6	4.3, 4.4
	5-Oct	Exam 1
	7-Oct	Dirac notation	3.1, 3.4, 3.6	4.3, 4.4
7	10-Oct	The position basis	3.3	4.3, 4.4
	12-Oct	Completeness	3.3		5
	14-Oct	The momentum basis	3.3	4.3, 4.4
8	17-Oct	Wave mechanics & Dirac notation		4.3, 4.4
	19-Oct	Hermitian Operators	3.2, 3.3	4.5, 4.6	6
	21-Oct	Uncertainty Principle	3.5	5.4
9	24-Oct	Harmonic Oscillator	2.3	7.2
	26-Oct	Harmonic Oscillator	2.3	7.2, 7.3	7
	28-Oct	Harmonic Oscillator	2.3	7.3
10	31-Oct	Matrix Mechanics and Two State	3.6	11.1-11.4
	2-Nov	Matrix Mechanics and Two State	3.6	11.1-11.4	8
	4-Nov	Matrix Mechanics and Two State	3.6	11.1-11.4
11	7-Nov	Matrix Mechanics and Two State	3.6	11.1-11.4
	9-Nov	Exam 2
	11-Nov	Bound states, 1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.1
12	14-Nov	1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.5-7.7, 8.1
	16-Nov	1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.5-7.7, 8.1	9
	18-Nov	1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.5-7.7, 8.1
13	21-Nov	1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.5-7.7, 8.1
	23-Nov	1D potentials	2.5, 2.6	7.5-7.7, 8.1	10
	25-Nov	Thanksgiving break
14	28-Nov	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	9.1-9.3
	30-Nov	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	9.1-9.3	11
	2-Dec	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	9.1-9.3
15	5-Dec	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	9.1-9.3
	7-Dec	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	10.1-10.3	12
	9-Dec	Angular Momentum	4.1, 4.3	10.1-10.3
16	12-Dec	Catch-up/Review
	21-Dec	Final Exam - 8:00 am - 10:00 am