General Information
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| Lectures |
| TR 12:30 - 2 |
Room 4-370 |
Prof. Krishna Rajagopal |
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| Recitations |
| Section 1 |
MW 12-1 |
Room 8-205 |
Prof. Hong Liu |
| Section 2 |
MW 1-2 |
Room 8-205 |
Prof. Hong Liu |
Texts
W. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (required);
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 2 (required);
J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (recommended if you
like it; somewhat advanced);
R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics (recommended
if you like it; somewhat advanced)
All these texts, and others which may be of value (e.g. Baym;
Dirac; Gasiorowicz; Gottfried; Liboff; Peebles; Schiff) are available
in the Physics Reading Room.
Prerequisites
You must complete 8.05 with a grade of C or better before attempting
8.06. If you have any questions about your background, come talk
with Prof. Rajagopal.
Grading
Grades will be determined by a weighted average of problem sets
(30%), a Midterm that will be held in class on Thursday, March
17 (15%), a Term Paper (20%), and a Final Exam, scheduled for
Tuesday, May 17,
1:30 - 4:30pm in Johnson Athletics Center (35%). The faculty
may alter grades to reflect class participation, improvement, effort
and other qualitative measures of performance.
Problem Sets
Problem sets are a very important part of 8.06. We believe that
sitting down yourself and trying to reason your way through a problem
not only helps you learn the material deeply, but also develops
analytical tools fundamental to a successful career in science.
We recognize that students also learn a great deal from talking
to and working with each other. We therefore encourage each 8.06
student to make his/her own attempt on every problem and then, having
done so, to discuss the problems with one another and collaborate
on understanding them more fully. The solutions you submit must
reflect your own work. They must not be transcriptions or reproductions
of other people's work. Plagiarism is a serious offense and is easy
to recognize. Don't submit work which is not your own.
Problem sets will be available at http://web.mit.edu/8.06
at least one week before they are due. They will usually be due
at 6pm on Tuesdays, in the handout room, 4-339B. Most weeks,
solutions will be available at http://web.mit.edu/8.06
the day after the problem set is due. Graded problem sets will be
returned in section. We do not accept problem sets after they are
due. Period. However, your lowest problem set score will be discarded
at the end of the semester; only the remaining n - 1 will
be used in determining your grade.
Term Paper
Everyone in 8.06 will be expected to research, write and “publish”
a short paper on a topic related to the content of 8.05 or 8.06.
The paper can explain a physical effect or further explicate ideas
or problems covered in the courses. It can be based on the student’s
own calculations and/or library research. The paper should be written
in the style and format of a brief journal article and should aim
at an audience of 8.06 students. Writing, editing, revising and
“publishing” skills are an integral part of the project,
which is described in full in a separate handout.
Because 8.06 is a CI-M Subject, in order to pass 8.06 you must obtain a grade of C or
better on your term paper. If you do not succeed in this, you will get a grade of Incomplete
until you revise your term paper sufficiently to earn at least a C, and only at that time you
will be assigned a final grade based on the breakdown given above.
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