QUANTUM II Homework
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- Homework #1, due Friday, Jan. 17, Cohen-Tannoudji, #9.2 (helicity operator) and #9.3 (Pauli Hamiltonian)
- Homework #2, due Friday, Jan. 24, Cohen-Tannoudji, #10.1 (total angular momentum of deuterium atom), #10.3 (Bohr frequencies of two spin 1/2) and #10.4 (decay of spin 3/2 particle)
- Homework #3, due Friday, Jan. 31, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #10.2 (magnetic moments of hydrogen atom), #10.5 (three spin 1/2's), #10.6 parts a and b (interacting spin 1/2 particles)
- Homework #4, due Friday, Feb. 7, Cohen-Tannoudji #11.1 (nondegenerate perturbation theory) and 11.2 (first order degenerate perturbation theory)
- Homework #5, due Friday, Feb. 14, Teach yourself group representation theory, optional reading from Landau & Lifshitz
- Homework #6, due Friday, Feb. 28, Cohen-Tannoudji, #11.3 (perturbation to 2D harmonic oscillator), 11.4 (perturbation to 2D rotator), Cohesion of benzene (due date postponed until Wednesday, March 5)
- Homework #7, due Friday, March 14, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #11.6 (electron paramagnetic resonance), #14.2 (bosons in central potential), 14.3 (two-electron correlation)
- Homework #8, due Friday, March 21, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #14.6 parts a and b (relative angular momentum of identical particles), 14.7 (position probability densities of identical particles, discuss the possible choices of normalization)
- Homework #9, due Friday, March 28, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #14.9 (Degenerate electron gas. warning: problem is LONG)
- Homework #10, due Monday, April 7, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #8.3a (p-wave scattering by hard sphere), problem #10.6 parts c, d, e (scattering with spin flip), #14.4 (identical particle collision)
- Homework #11, due Friday, April 18, Cohen-Tannoudji, problem #14.6 part c (partial wave identical particles), #13.2 (coupled spin 1/2's), #13.5 (Autler-Townes effect)
- Homework #12, due Friday, April 25, Cohen-Tannoudji #13.6 (form factor), 13.7 (model photoelectric effect), 13.9 parts a and b (random perturbation)
Exams
- Exam #1, Monday, Feb. 17, in class
- Exam #2, Monday, March 24, in class
- Final, Monday, May 5, 8:30-11:30am, Doherty Hall 1112
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