Schedule

Date:	Topics for Discussion:	Date:	Topics for Discussion:
Aug 23	Introduction	Oct 18	Test 1 Study Guide
Aug 28	Fundamental Assumptions A free particle	Oct 23	The 1-d harmonic oscillator Mean value and RMS deviation
Aug 30	Time evolution of a wave packet Numerical work: Program 1	Oct 25	E igenfunctions
Sep 6	Time-independent potentials Square potentials The potential step Wave Packets and steps	Oct 30	Tensor product spaces The 3-d harmonic oscillator
Sep 11	The square-well potential d-function potentials Numerical work: Prog. 2, Prog. 3	Nov 1	Spin 1/2
Sep 13	Linear Vector Spaces Linear Operators	Nov 6	A two-level system
Sep 18	Representations in state space Change of representation The eigenvalue problem	Nov 8	Two spin 1/2 particles
Sep 20	The \|r> and \|p> representation Problems	Nov 13	Problems
Sep 25	The Postulates Mean Value and RMS Deviation	Nov 15	Angular momentum
Sep 27	Conservation of Probability The Evolution Operator	Nov 20	Problems
Oct 2	The Heisenberg Picture The Interaction Picture	Nov 22	Orbital angular momentum Problems
Oct 4	Interference Effects Problems	Nov 27	Symmetries
Oct 9	A statistical mixture of states	Nov 29	Spinors
Oct 11	The WKB approximations Numerical work: Program 4	Dec 4	NMR
Oct 16	Review	Dec 6	Review, Study Guide for Test 2