Quantum Mechanics — Daily Schedule Term 5

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See also Daily Schedule-Term 4

Week 8 — Resonance Behavior — Start Hamiltonians of Two-State Systems

• Monday, Mar. 16 — Reading: Consolidate Chapter III-8 — Problem Set 12: The zeroth problem of which is Another Fourier Problem, and the remaining three problems are Feynman’s three problemms for Chapter III-8
• Thursday, Mar. 19 — Reading: Feynman Chapter III-9

Week 9 — Exam 2 — Off-Resonant Behavior — Continue Hamiltonians of Two-State Systems

• Monday, Mar. 23 — Exam 2 on Feynman Chapters 4 to 8 — Homework for next class: Carefully study Section 10-6 of Feynman (you will have to go back and pick up just a bit of Section 10-1 when studying 10-6) — Glance at Section 10-7, including the last paragraph — Glance at the problems for Chapter 10, which we start together in class on Thursday
• Thursday, Mar. 26 — Feynman Sections 10-1, 10-6, and 10-7 and starting on Feynman Problem 77.2

Week 10 — Exam 2 — Pauli Matrices — Finish Hamiltonian Formulation of N-State Systems

• Monday, Mar. 30 — Problem Set 13: Finish Feynman Problem 77.2 — Study Section 11-1 on the Pauli Matrices
• Thursday, Apr. 2 — Study Feynman Sections 11-2 and 11-3, and take a look at 11-4 — Do Problem Set 14

Week 11 — Electron Propagation in a Crystal Lattice

• Monday, Apr. 6 — Study Feynman III-11-6 — Do Problem Set 15
• Thursday, Apr. 9 — Study Feynman III-13-3 and III-13-4 — For Problem Set 16, follow Feynmans’s “something you can play with on p. 13-6” suggestion and do Feynman Problem 80.1

Week 12 — Start Schrodinger’s Equation

• Monday, Apr. 13 — Study Feynman III-16-1 and III-16-2 — For Problem Set 17, just do one more of Feynman’s crystal lattice problems, Problem 80.2
• Thursday, Apr. 16 — Study Feynman III-16-3 and III-16-4 — For Problem Set 18, do the first of Feynman’s Schrodinger Equation problems, 83.1 — Part (e) of 83.1 may require a tricky argument, perhaps scaling out all the dimensional dependence of the integral

Week 13 — Continue Schrodinger’s Equation

• Monday, April 20 — Study Moore Chapter Q.9 (essentially a review of Feynman Chapter III-16) and Moore Sections Q.10.1, Q.10.2, and Q.10.3 — For Problem Set 19, do Moore Problems Q9M.6, Q9M.7, and Q9D.2
• Thursday, April 23 — Choose problems for Exam 3 (take-home) on Schrodinger’s Equation

Week 14 — Exam 3

• Monday, April 27 — Go over Exam 3