PHY 495, Quantum Mechanics II
Spring semester, 2002
Syllabus

Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:05-10:00 in SE 227

Instructor Brett van de Sande,

• Office: SE 316
• E-mail: bvds@pitt.edu,
• Web page: http://www.geneva.edu/~bvds.

Office hours By appointment; send me an E-mail if you can't find me.

Textbook Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by David J. Griffiths

Grading

Final exam	20%
Homeworks	80%

No homeworks will be accepted after the last day of classes.

This is a continuation of the Introduction to Quantum Mechanics course. After a brief review, starting with the three-dimensional operator, we will study the topics:

• Spin and addition of angular momentum
• Identical particles
• Perturbation theory
• ????

This course will be conducted as a semi-independent study. Class time will consist of a mixture of informal lecture and working as a group on homework problems.

The main purpose of the final exam in this course is to see whether you took good class notes and that you understand them. You may use your class notes and your homework solutions while taking the exam.