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Physics 441
Quantum Mechanics 1

http://faculty.washington.edu/seattle/

Instructor: Larry Sorensen
Email: seattle@uw.edu

Office: B-435 Physics-Astronomy
Office Hours: Right after class--or by appointment
Phone: 543-0360

Course Description
An introduction to non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Topics will include: the mathematics of quantum mechanics, bra and ket notation, the postulates of quantum mechanics, one-dimensional problems, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, and non-relativistic path integrals.
Course information
Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3

Bra, Ket, Dirac, and all that---aka, the Virtual Book
Table of Contents
Preface
Dedication

1.1 The Mathematics 1
1.2 The Mathematics 2
1.3 The Mathematics 3
Shankar Math Chapter

2.1 The Postulates 1
2.2 The Postulates 2
Shankar Postulates Chapter

Summaries of the Postulates and the Math
Shankar
Liboff
Webber
Griffiths
Cohen-Tannoudji

3.1 Free Particles 1
3.2 Free particles 2
Eisberg
Griffiths
Shankar

4 Transmission and Refelection Coefficients
Eisberg
Liboff
Shankar
PBQM

5.1 Square Wells 1
5.2 Square Wells 2
5.3 Square Well Figures
Eisberg
Griffiths
Shankar
PBQM
Cohen-Tannoudji

6 Ehrenfest's Theorem

7 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations

8.1 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 1
8.2 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 2
8.3 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 3
8.4 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator Figures
8.5 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator Summary
Griffiths
Shankar

9.1 Angular Momentum 1
9.2 Angular Momentum 2
9.3 Angular Momentum Figures
Eisberg
Griffiths
Shankar
Griffiths 2

10.1 Hydrogen 1
10.2 Hydrogen 2
10.3 Hydrogen Figures
Eisberg
Griffiths
Shankar

Recreational Reading
Nine Formulations of Quantum Mechanics
Is the moon there when nobody looks?
What's the difference between a Hilbert space and a finite-dimensional vector space?
Have fun
It's supposed to be fun
Stay playful
We represent the Physics Department
Classified 4F
Any port in a storm
Guess who's coming to your talk
Traveling backward in time
Diagrams in momentum space

Online Reference Books
Shankar
Griffiths.djvu
Griffiths.pdf
Liboff
Cohen-Tannoudji
Baym
Gasiorowicz

The Most Famous Quantum Book of All Time (at least so far)
Dirac
about Dirac

Visual Quantum mechanics
Visual QM 1
Visual QM 2
Visual QM 3
Visual QM 4

Good Summaries of the Mathematics of QM
UCSD
Webber
Ballentine
Schwinger

Yet More Quantum Books
Phillips
Rae
Dah

The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
Auletta
Baggott
Bell.djvu
Bell.pdf
Bell 2
Braginsky
Laloe
Marquardt
Omnes
Peres
Polkinghorne
Schlosshauer
Schlosshauer 2
Stanford Encyclopedia
von Neumann
Wheeler-Zurek

Homework Problems and Solutions from the Virtual Book

Homework Assignment 1
Chapter 1.1: 26, 27, 29, 33, 34, 36
Chapter 1.2: 27, 30, 32
Correction for 1.1.26b: -10+4i should be -10-4i
Correction for 1.2.27a: det(A)=4 should be det(A)=1
Homework Set 1 Solutions
Homework Set 1b Solutions

Homework Assignment 2
Chapter 1.2: 33, 34, 38, 39, 40
Chapter 1.3: 30, 32, 39, 40
Homework Set 2 Solutions
Homework Set 2b Solutions

Homework Assignment 3
Chapter 2: 33, 34, 36, 38, 41, 42
Homework Set 3.1 Solutions
Homework Set 3.2 Solutions

Homework Assignment 4
Chapter 3: 37, then rework 37 using wavefcn in 31
Chapter 4: 10, 13
Chapter 5: 30, 31, 33
Chapter 3 Solutions
Chapter 4 Solutions
Chapter 5 Solutions

Homework Assignment 5
Chapter 8: 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46
Homework Set 5 Solutions
HW Set 5 Figures

Homework Assignment 6
Homework Assignment 6
Homework 6 Hints
Homework Set 6 Solutions
HW 6 Figures

Homework Assignment 7
Homework Assignment 7
Homework 7 Hints
More HW 7 Help
Homework Set 7 Solutions

More Problems and Solutions
Lim
Cahn
Squires
Princeton
Chicago
Tamvakis
Schaum's
Eisberg

2012 Lectures
Lecture 1 Course Mechanics
Lecture 1 Feynman's 1964 Messenger Lecture
Lecture 2 Mathematics 1
Lecture 3 Mathematics 2
Lecture 4 Mathematics 3
lecture-4.mp3
Lecture 5 Postulates 1
Lecture 6 Postulates 2
lecture-6.mp3
Lecture 7 The Square Well
lecture-7.mp3
Lecture 8 The T and R Coefficients
lecture-8.mp3
Lecture 9 The Free Particle
lecture-9.mp3
Lecture 10 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 1
lecture-10.mp3
Lecture 11 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 2
lecture-11.mp3
Lecture 12 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator 3
Lecture 13 Angular Momentum 1
Lecture 14 Angular Momentum 2
lecture-14.mp3
Lecture 15 Hydrogen 1
lecture-15.mp3
Lecture 16 Hydrogen 2
lecture-16.mp3

2011 Lectures
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Lecture 18
Lecture 19

2010 Lectures
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Lecture 18

2009 324 Lectures
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Square Well
Lecture 17
Lecture 18
Lecture 19

SHO-1
SHO-2
SHO-3

Angular Momentum 1
Angular Momentum 2
Angular Momentum 3

Hydrogen 1
Hydrogen 2
Hydrogen 3
Factorization

Path Integrals 1
Path Integrals 2

Feynman Diagrams 1
Feynman Diagrams 2

Reading
Supersymmetry 1
Supersymmetry 2

Shankar Path Integrals
Feynman Path Integrals
Introduction to Path Integrals

Canonical QFT
Nutshell 1
Nutshell 2

Enrico Fermi
Fermi Problems

Feynman

The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature

QED 1
QED 2
QED 3
QED 4
QED 5

QED Videos
QED Simulations

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Last modified: 1/3/2012