PHYS 339 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics

Instructor: Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Olin 168, x73106, ben.vollmayr-lee@bucknell.edu

Office Hours: Mon 9-10, Tue 4-5, Thu 11-12, Fri 3-4

Text: David Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed. (QM)
       David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, 2nd Ed. (EP)

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Homework

No.DueProblems (QM)
1.Jan 16 4.28, 4.34 solns
2.Jan 19 Problem A, 4.50 solns
3.Jan 21 Problems B & C solns
4.Jan 23 4.5, 4.11, 4.22 solns
5.Jan 26 6.1a, 6.2 solns
6.Jan 28 6.1b, 6.4 solns
7.Feb 2 6.8, 6.9 solns
8.Feb 2 6.11a, 6.16, 6.17 solns
9.Feb 4 6.23 solns
10.Feb 6 6.20, 6.21 solns
11.Feb 13 6.38, 9.1, 9.15a solns
12.Feb 16 9.5, 9.7 solns
13.Feb 18 9.15bcd, 9.18 solns
14.Feb 20 9.11, 9.15e solns
15.Feb 23 Problems D & E solns
16.Feb 25 11.1bc, 11.2 solns
17.Feb 27 11.3 solns
18.Mar 2 Problem F, 11.6, 11.19 solns
19.Mar 4 11.8, 11.9 solns
20.Mar 6 Problem G, 11.10 solns
21.Mar 20 Problems H & I, 11.15 solns
No.DueProblems (EP)
22.Mar 25 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7solns
23.Mar 27 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.13 solns
24.Mar 30 3.16, 3.17abc, 3.19, 3.20abc solns
25.Apr 1 6.5, 6.6solns
26.Apr 3 6.7, 6.8, 6.9solns
27.Apr 6 6.11, 6.13a, 6.15asolns
28.Apr 8 6.15bcd, 7.1, 7.2solns
29.Apr 10 7.3, 7.4solns
30.Apr 20 7.11, 7.13solns
31.Apr 20 7.17, 7.20solns
32.Apr 24 7.23, 7.26solns
33.Apr 24 7.27solns
34.Apr 28 Problem Jsolns

Schedule

Dates Topics Reading
Jan 14 - 19 Spin, EPR Paradox & Bell's Inequality QM 4.4 & 12.1 - 12.2
Jan 21 Hydrogen Atom Review QM 4.1 - 4.3
Jan 23 - 28 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory QM 6.1 - 6.2
Jan 30 - Feb 4 Fine Structure, Zeeman Effect, and Hyperfine Splitting QM 6.3 - 6.5
Feb 6 Catchup and Review
Mon, Feb 9 Exam 1
Feb 11 - 13 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory QM 9.1
Feb 16 - 20 Emission and Absorption of Radiation QM 9.2 - 9.3
Feb 23 - 25 Scattering: Partial Wave Analysis QM 11.1 - 11.3
Feb 27 - Mar 2 Scattering: Born Approximation QM 11.4
Mar 4 Lorentz Transformation and 4-vectors EP 3.1 - 3.2
Fri, Mar 6 Catchup and Review
Take-home Exam 2
Mar 20 - 23 Energy, Momentum, and Collisions EP 3.3 - 3.5
Mar 25 - 27 Fermi's Golden Rule EP 6.1 - 6.2
Mar 30 - Apr 3 Feynman Rules for ABC Theory EP 6.3 - 6.5
Apr 6 - 10 Dirac Equation EP 7.1 - 7.2
Mon, Apr 13 Exam 3
Apr 15 - 20 Parity, Bilinear Covariants, and the Photon EP 4.6 & 7.3 - 7.4
Apr 22 - 27 Feynman Rules for QED EP 7.5 - 7.6
Thu, Apr 30 Final Exam