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Course policy
Grading
- Homework (10%):
- Each homework assignment shall have a typical submission deadline of 2 weeks later after announcement. As the next assignment is posted on the website, the official solution of the previous assignment will be posted as well.
- Once a solution has been posted, students will be asked to grade their own homework and submit their grades by a weekly deadline. During the semester the course staff will confirm the grading of 3 randomly selected questions.
- One homework, with the lowest grade, will not be taken into account in computing the average.
- The students are asked to follow the above instructions, with no exceptions:
- Submission of HW assignment without grading it will be considered as if the HW assignment has not been submitted, and no credit will be given for that HW assignment.
- The HW deadlines are strict! Requests for postponing the deadline will be declined, except for particular circumstances (Miluim, special family occasions, etc...) and only if the request has been sent to the staff members before the deadline.
- Final assignment (90%): At the end of the semester, a final assignment will be announced. The grade of the final assignment will be evaluated based on two components:
- Work (50%): The students will be asked to submit their solutions to the website. Their work will be graded by the staff members.
- Oral exam (40%): The students will be asked to present their work to the staff members.
Textbooks
Main textbook:- J.J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum mechanics, Second Edition
- L.E.Ballentine, Quantum Mechanics
- Feynman Lectures Volume III
- S. Coleman, Aspects of Symmetry
Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Office hours
Please inform me (by mail) that you wish to attend the office hour, at least 24 hours before it is scheduled, otherwise it will be canceled.Name Day Hours Building/Room E-mail Eytan Grosfeld Sunday 17:00-18:00 54/312 grosfeld@bgu.ac.il Jordan Flitter* Thursday 14:00-15:00 Zoom jordanf@post.bgu.ac.il Lecture/Tutorial
Group What? Name Day Hours Building/Room 1 Lecture Eytan Grosfeld Tuesday 9:00-12:00 28/304 2 TA Jordan Flitter Wednesday 13:00-15:00 28/304 Topics
Week Topic Recommended Reading 1 Dynamics in quantum mechanics Sakurai, Chap 1 2 Scattering Theory I: The Scattering Matrices and the Lippman-Schwinger Equation Sakurai, Chap 6 3 Scattering Theory II: Optical Theorem, Born Approximation, Rutherford Scattering and Introduction to Partial Waves Sakurai, Chap 6 4 Scattering Theory III: Partial Waves, Phase Shifts & Resonances Sakurai, Chap 6 5 Path Integrals I: From the Propagator to Feynman's Path Integrals Sakurai, Chap 2 6 Path Integrals II: Semi-Classical Approximation, Perturbation Theory and Correlation Functions 7 Many particle physics I: fermions and bosons, second quantization Sakurai, Chap 7 8 Many particle physics II: Fermi and Bose gases 9 Many particle physics III: Spin chains 10 Fields I: Classical fields and symmetries 11 Fields II: Quantization of fields 12 Fields III: Quantization of the electromagnetic field and interaction with matter 13 Introduction to path integrals with fields
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Class exercises
Homework submission & grading
Final Assignment