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| Assignments | Lectures |
| Week #1 | 1/11: Piecewise constant potentials 1/13: Harmonic oscillator |
| Week #2 | 1/16: MLK Day -> no class 1/18: Hydrogen 1/20: Bosons and fermions |
| Week #3 | 1/23: Terminology, classical scattering 1/25: Wave packets, quantum scattering 1/27: Complex analysis, contour integration |
| Week #4 | 1/30: Green's functions, Born approximation 2/1: Partial wave expansion 2/3: Optical theorem, phase shifts |
| Week #5 | 2/6: Spherical expansion of Gk+ 2/8: Scattering length 2/10: S-matrix, resonances |
| Week #6 | 2/13: Scattering with spin 2/15: Identical particles 2/17: Review |
| Week #7 | 2/20: Midterm #1 2/22: Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation theory 2/24: Electrostatic polarization |
| Week #8 | 2/27: Degenerate perturbation theory 3/1: Thomas precession 3/3: Fine structure in hydrogenic ions |
| Spring Break | |
| Week #9 | 3/13: Zeeman effect 3/15: No class 3/17: No class |
| Week #10 | 3/20: Helium 3/22: Interaction picture 3/24: Transition probabilities and rates |
| Week #11 | 3/27: Semiclassical radiation theory 3/29: Dipole and quadrupole approximations 3/31: Time-independent potentials; Review |
| Week #12 | 4/3: Midterm #2 4/5: Review Midterm #2 4/7: T-matrix |
| Week #13 | 4/10: Lippmann-Schwinger equation, Born series 4/12: S-matrix, partial waves 4/14: Optical theorem, time-reversal |
| Week #14 | 4/17: Relativistic notation, Klein-Gordon equation 4/19: Dirac equation 4/21: Pauli limit |
| Week #15 | 4/24: Free-particle solutions 4/26: Parity, spin 4/28: Step potential, Klein paradox; Review |
| Week #16 | 5/1: Final Exam, 12 noon |
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