Quantum Mechanics

Oberlin College Physics 312

Fall 2009

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/QM/;
last updated 18 November 2009.

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Teacher: Dan Styer.

Course syllabus

Problem assignments

Notes on "The Physics of Quantum Mechanics" (PDF)

Problems in Quantum Mechanics (PDF)

"A Quantum Mechanics Primer" (PDF) by Daniel T. Gillespie at the library's ERes site. (Password required.)

Errata for the textbook by Griffith (PDF)

Notes concerning the book QED by Feynman

Handouts

Phase conventions for amplitudes in spin-1/2 systems

How to specify a quantal state

Outer product, operators, measurement

Working with the Schrodinger equation

Solving the SHO Energy Eigenproblem through Operator Factorization

Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions

Angular Momentum Eigenproblem

Energy Eigenproblem for the Central Force Problem