Physics

6105, Fall 2014

Instructor: Markus Kindermann, Rm. 509
Email: markus.kindermann@physics.gatech.edu


TA: Bedoya, Mauricio
Email: mauricio@gatech.edu
Phone: 404 357 9460
Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday 1-2pm, MS&E building G120 (Ground floor west)


Grade make-up:

- Homework, due every Wednesday (30%)
- 2 quizzes (30%):
- final exam (40%)



Recommended textbook:

Quantum Mechanics by F. Schwabl (Springer)



Some other useful, but not required texts:

- Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals by Kurt Gottfried and Tung-Mow Yan

(2nd edition, Springer)
- Modern Quantum Mechanics, Second edition by J.J. Sakurai and Jim
Napolitano
- A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition), by J.S. Townsend

Tentative Course outline:

! Postulates and formalism of QM
! 1D problems (potential step, harmonic oscillator, )
! Angular Momentum
! The Hydrogen Atom
! Perturbation theory

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Variational methods
Scattering theory
Spin-1/2
Relativistic corrections
Formulation of many-body QM