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Overview and
HW discussion
Review of QM development		 The Wavefunction
Sections 1.2 - 1.4
PreHW 1.1, 3a		 Momentum & the uncertainty principle
Sections 1.5 - 1.6
PreHW 1.4,8
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Separable solutions
& stationary states
Section 2.1
PreHW 1.18		 HW1 &
Infinite Square Well
Section 2.2		 More Infinite
Square Well
PreHW 2.2
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Harmonic Oscillator--Ladder Operators
Section 2.3.1
PreHW 2.5 a & b only		 Harmonic Oscillator--Analytic Method
Section 2.3.2
PreHW 2.13 a & b only		 HW2 &
Free Particles
Section 2.4
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Free particles and exam review
Group velocity deriv p.61		 Exam 1 Finishing up the Free Particles and Fourier Transforms
Section 2.4
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Bound States: δ-function & finite square well
Section 2.5-6
PreHW Figure 2.18		 Scattering States:
δ-function & fin.sq.well
Section 2.5-6
PreHW 2.52 a only		 Linear Algebra Refresher
Appendix
PreHW A.8 by hand
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Hilbert Space and Observables
Section 3.1
HW 3 due		 Eigenfunctions and Determinate States
Section 3.2 - 3.3
PreHW 3.5 & 3.8		 The Generalized Statistical Interpretation
Section 3.4
PreHW 3.22
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Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Section 3.5		 Homework 4 due Dirac Notation and wrap up of Chap. 3
Section 3.6
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Exam 2 QM in 3D
Spherical Coord.
Section 4.1		 Spherical Coord.
The Radial Equation
Section 4.1 PreHW 4.2 b,c
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S P R I N G
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B R E A K
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The Hydrogen atom
Section 4.2 		Hydrogen continued
Section 4.2 PreHW 4.10		 Hydrogen continued
Section 4.2
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Angular Momentum
Section 4.3
HW 5 due		 Angular Momentum
Section 4.3
PreHW 4.25		 Spin!
Section 4.4
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Spin and Projection Operators Precession,
Stern-Gerlach		 Total Angular Momentum
HW 6 due
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Identical Particles
Section 5.1 		Exam 3 Pauli Exclusion Principle
Section 5.1
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Atoms & the Periodic Table
Section 5.2 		Solids & the Free Electron Gas
Section 5.3 		Band Structure
Section 5.3
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Quantum Statistical Mechanics
Section 5.4 		Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein
Section 5.4
HW 7 due		 Afterword on Meaning
Chapter 12
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