Instructor: Daniel A. Steck
Office: 277 Willamette Phone: 346-5313
email: dsteck@uoregon.edu
Office hours: walk-in and by appointment (best to email first)
Teaching Assistant:
Wes Erickson
office: WIL 272
office hours: W 3-4p
email:
wwe@uoregon.edu
Schedule: TTh 10-11:50a, 318 Willamette
Course reference number: 34836
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: none
Links: news, course notes, homework sets and keys.
This course is a more-or-less standard introduction to quantum mechanics at the graduate level, one of the core components of your Ph.D. studies. This is the third of a 3-quarter sequence.
Text:
There is no required textbook for this course. I will provide my notes (either typed or handwritten, as time allows) for the course material as we go along.
The intent is for this to be a transitional class between core and advanced graduate courses, and as such will be a little less formal in terms of evaluation. Grades for the course will be based on homework and a final exam. (No midterm) The relative weights will be as follows:
Homework: around 4-5 problem sets will be assigned during the term. These will be a bit longer and more substantial than in past terms.
Final exam: The final exam is will be by oral exams. These will be scheduled individually during finals week or the last week of class (as conventient for the class, to avoid conflicts with other exams).
Pass/fail grading option: Since this is a core graduate course, you should take the graded option.
This is an incredibly tentative list of topics we will cover in this and the following course(s) in the sequence. Note that it is likely we won't get through all of this in one term.