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Schedule

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Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Homework	Reading
1	08/21	Review of Phys486	No Discussion
	08/23	Symmetries and Transformations in Quantum Mechanics			6.1, 6.2
2	08/28	Symmetry and Degeneracy	Discussion 1 solutions	HW1 (due 09/6) solutions	6.3--6.5
	08/30	Symmetry and Degeneracy			6.6, 6.8
3	09/04	Labor Day	Discussion 2 solutions	HW2 (due 9/12) solutions	7.1
	09/06	Time-independent perturbation theory I
4	09/11	Time-independent perturbation theory II	Discussion 3 solutions	HW3 (due 9/19) solutions	7.1, 7.2
	09/13	Degenerate perturbation theory			7.2
5	09/18	Relativistic effects in the hydrogen atom	Discussion 4 solutions	none	7.3.1
	09/20	Spin-orbit coupling			7.3.1, 7.3.2
6	09/25	Review	No Discussion	HW4 (due 10/3) solutions
	09/27	Midterm 1 solutions Formula Sheet
7	10/02	Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes)	Discussion 5 solutions		7.3.2, 4.4.3
	10/04	Addition of angular momentum (lec11 notes)			7.3.2, 4.4.3
8	10/09	Zeeman effect (lec11 notes)	Discussion 6 solutions	HW5 (due 10/17) solutions	7.4
	10/11	The variational principle			8.1,8.2
9	10/16	The hydrogen ion and the helium atom	Discussion 7 solutions	HW6 (due 10/25) solutions	8.3, 8.4
	10/18	Time dependent Hamiltonians			11.1
10	10/23	Time-dependent perturbation theory	Discussion 8 solutions	HW7 (due 11/1) solutions	11.1, 11.2
	10/25	Emission and absortion of radiation			11.2, 11.3
11	11/30	Spontaneous emission and Fermi's golden Rule	Discussion 9 solutions	none	11.4
	11/01	Adiabatic approximation			11.5
12	11/06	Midterm 2 Formula Sheet Solutions	No Discussion	HW8 (due 11/16) solutions	11.5
	11/08	Adiabatic theorem
13	11/13	Geometric phase	Discussion 10 solutions	none	4.5
	11/15	coupling to EM fields			4.5
14	11/20	Thanksgiving break	No Discussion	none
	11/23	Thanksgiving break
15	11/27	Aharanov-Bohm and Landau Levels (Video)	Discussion 11 solutions	HW 9 (due 12/06) solutions	5.3.1
	11/29	Class cancelled			5.3.2
16	12/04	Free electron gas	No Discussion	none
	12/06	Electrons in solid
	12/15	Review lecture Final exam: 1:30-4:30, Loomis 144 (where lectures are) Formula sheet