Quantum Mechanics I (Fall 2019)

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Class Timings and Venue: 04:30 p.m. to 05:45 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, 10-302

Office Hours: 03:00 p.m. to 04:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday

TA Office Hours:

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Tuesdays (Minahil Adil Butt)

04:30 p.m. to 05:30 p.m. on Fridays (Irfan Javed)

As to the venue for the TA office hours, it would be the conference room in the physics department both on Tuesdays and on Fridays.

Welcome by Irfan Javed:

Welcome to Quantum Mechanics I! With that greeting, I take you from the world of the very large to that of the very small, where classical mechanics, or “common sense,” simply does not apply. This course is designed to make you learn and appreciate the beauty, the elegance, and the power of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is powerful because it has the capacity to explain a lot of nature (all the way from the low level of atoms to the high echelon of stars), and it is elegant because it has a well founded base in mathematics.

Over the course of the semester, not only would you get equipped with the tools to do quantum mechanics, but you also would develop the chutzpah to zip through problems in it yourself, and as teaching assistants for the course, Minahil and I would work closely with Dr. Sabieh to realize these goals.

Marking scheme:

Quizzes: 20% (4 to 5)

Homeworks: 20% (8 to 10)

Midterm Exam: 25%

Final Exam: 35%

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Due Monday, September 30 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution

Assignment 2 (Due Monday, October 7 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution

Assignment 3 (Due Wednesday, October 23 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution

Assignment 4 (Due Monday, November 4 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution

Assignment 5 (Due Monday, November 25 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution

Assignment 6 (Due Monday, December 9 at 05:00 p.m.) | Solution