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PHYS 450: Quantum Theory Seminar

Spring 2008

It is hardly necessary to point out how much quantum theory deviates from everything that one has imagined until now; it is without doubt the greatest and deepest revolution to which natural philosophy has been subjected since Newton. -Henri Poincare

Instructor: Seth Major, smajor, 4919, G052
Office Hours: Anytime but Tues. all day and Wed. and Thurs. mornings are best
Seminar: Thursday 1-4 PM Science Center G029
Texts:

John Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics

Davies and Betts, Quantum Mechanics 2nd edition (optional)

 

News:

  • The LAST Guide is now posted.

 

Course Info:

course syllabus (pdf)

Weekly Guides (pdf):

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Extras:

  • This is a link to the paper achive "arXiv" hosted at Cornell.
  • Here's the link to the tale.
  • Follow this link to the Phys Rev website. By selecting the journal and typing in the volume and page number you can dowload the EPR paper, Phys Rev 47 (1935) 777.
  • Here's a review sheet outlining many of the topics we will discuss this semester.
  • Here is the informal Dirac Notation Intro (some typos corrected)
  • The Quantum Library is now in the Common Room. It is ordered from left to right: Math Ref -> History&Bio -> 290 level -> 450 level -> above 450 level. The blue book by Griffiths is at the same level as our course. The little paperback by Davies and Betts is in the middle as well. There is no sign-out policy, just take care of them and don't hold onto the books longer than you need. Please do not leave the books out!
  • A link to a very nice orbital visualization tool.

 

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