PHYS 450: Quantum Theory Seminar

Spring 2012

“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

“If quantum mechanics isn’t bothering you, you aren’t thinking hard enough.”
-Amy Lytle (3 November 2008)

Instructor:	Seth Major, smajor, 4919, G052
Office Hours:	Anytime but Tues and Thurs afternoons are going to be better
Seminar:	Monday 7-10 PM Science Center G029
Texts:	John Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics Davies and Betts, Quantum Mechanics 2nd edition (optional)

News:

Next offered Spring 2014.

Course Info:

course syllabus (pdf)

Weekly Guides (pdf):

Extras:

Spin Network Primer

For details on the unit conversion recipe see this link.

This is a link to the paper achive "arXiv" hosted at Cornell.

Here's the link to the EPR 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)

Hydrogen wavefunctions! See ``Atom in a Box''. Or this very nice orbital visualization tool.