8.04 Quantum Physics I
Fall 2013
Instructors: Edward H Farhi, Ross Corliss
TA: Lina Necib
Lecture:
TR9.30-11
(12-142)
Recitation: W10-11, 4-5
(26-210)
Office Hours: M 3-4:30
(6-415)
T 4-5
(26-539)
R 3-4
(6-300)
Information:
Suggested textbooks
French, Taylor – An Introduction to Quantum Physics
Gasiorowicz – Quantum Physics
Eisberg, Resnick – Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids,
Nuclei and Particles
Liboff – Introductory Quantum Mechanics
Shankar – Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Griffiths – Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Homework
Problem sets will be posted on Thursday and will be due in the class box the following Thursday at 5 pm. Solutions will be posted on Friday. Late problem sets will not be accepted.
Class attendance
Class attendance is required and will be verified. Lack of attendance could adversely affect grades.
Exams
There will be an in class mid-term exam on Tuesday, October 22, and the final exam will be Tuesday, December 17, 1:30 to 4:30 PM in Walker.
Announcements
review session
Dear students,I'm going to go over the practice exam tomorrow evening at the review session, along with some linear algebra overview, of how to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Please bring all your questions, and feel free to email me suggestions for material you want me to cover.
Good luck and see you tomorrow,
Lina
Announced on 15 December 2013 9:51 p.m. by Lina Necib
Practice Final
Dear students,Please find last year's final on Stellar under "Material".
Best of luck!
Lina
Announced on 15 December 2013 5:23 p.m. by Lina Necib
Final review session and office hours
Dear students,I will hold a review session Monday 7h30-9pm in room 8-320. For everyone else who cannot make it, find me at my office (6-415) from 2h30pm-6pm. Of course feel free to email me questions in the mean time, I'll try my best to answer as fast as I can.
Best of luck studying!
Lina
Announced on 14 December 2013 5:20 p.m. by Lina Necib
Final review session and Final-related matters
Dear students,I am able to hold a review session on Monday. The times available for booking a room are the ones on this doodle poll: http://doodle.com/ct2qvtfp8zszfzty Please answer it by Saturday 9pm so I have time to make notes.
If less than 8 people are available for the review session, then instead I will just hold office hours on Monday and you can pass by my office if you have any questions.
To answer the common questions: we will try to send you the final from last year as practice as soon as possible. The final is *cumulative*, you have to know all we have covered this semester. If we need you to use a complicated equation, we will provide it. No equation sheets allowed. You do not need to prepare Bell's inequality.
Good luck studying and stay warm this weekend!
Lina
Announced on 13 December 2013 3:16 p.m. by Lina Necib
Pset 10 Hint
Dear students,Regarding problem 2, we need to extract the asymptotic behavior (as we did in class for the case of l=0). Here you have a term that goes as 1/r^2, so you need to also extract the behavior as r -> 0. In that case. u''(r) = l(l+1)/r^2 u, and the solution is u = C r^(l+1) + D r^(-l). Make sure you verify that statement! You proceed to the power series method after taking out the small r behavior and the exponential that comes from the limit r-> infinity.
I hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you're having trouble.
Best of luck with the last pset of the semester! It's almost
over :-)
Lina
Announced on 05 December 2013 10:18 p.m. by Lina Necib
