PHYS 339 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics

Instructor: Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Olin 253, x73106, ben.vollmayr-lee@bucknell.edu

Office Hours: Mon 3-4, Tue 4-5, Thu 9-10

Text: David McIntyre, Quantum Mechanics (QM)
       David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, 2nd Ed. (EP)

Course Materials: Syllabus | PHYS 212 Entanglement Chapter | Griffiths Quantum Mechanics Ch 11

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Exam Solutions

Exam 1 | Exam 2 | Exam 3 | Final Exam

Homework & Reading

HW #1 (due Jan 23) Asgmt | Solns HW #2 (due Jan 30) Asgmt | Solns HW #3 (due Feb 6) Asgmt | Solns HW #4 (due Feb 13) Asgmt | Solns HW #5 (due Feb 20) Asgmt | Solns HW #6 (due Feb 27) Asgmt | Solns HW #7 (due Mar 2) Asgmt | Solns

HW #8 (due Mar 23) Asgmt | Solns HW #9 (due Mar 27) Asgmt | Solns HW #10 (due Apr 3) Asgmt | Solns HW #11 (due Apr 10) Asgmt | Solns HW #12 (due Apr 17) Asgmt | Solns HW #13 (due Apr 24) Asgmt | Solns HW #14 (due Apr 27) Asgmt | Solns

Schedule

Dates	Topics	Reading
Jan 14 - 16	Review Hydrogen Atom	QM Chs 7 & 8
Jan 19 - 23	Time-Independent Perturbation Theory	QM Ch 10
Jan 26 - 28	Hyperfine Structure of Hydrogen	QM Ch 11
Jan 30 - Feb 4	Perturbation Theory of Hydrogen	QM Ch 12
Feb 6	Catchup and Review
Mon, Feb 9	Exam I
Feb 11 - 16	Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory	QM Ch 14
Feb 20 - 23	Quantum Entanglement, EPR Paradox, & Bell's Thm.	QM 4.1 & 212 Ch 8
Feb 25 - Mar 2	Scattering	Griffiths QM Ch 1
Mar 4	Catchup and Review
Fri, March 6	Take-home Exam II due
Mar 16 - 23	4-vectors, Energy, Momentum, and Collisions	EP Ch 3
Mar 25 - Apr 1	Feynman Rules for ABC Theory	EP Ch 6
Apr 3 - 8	Dirac Equation	EP 7.1 - 7.2
Apr 10	Catchup and Review
Mon, Apr 13	Exam III
Apr 15 - 20	Parity, Bilinear Covariants, and the Photon	EP 4.6 & 7.3 - 7.4
Apr 22 - 27	Feynman Rules for QED	EP 7.5 - 7.6
Tue, May 5	Final Exam