PHYS4100 Introductory Quantum Mechanics
Spring 2006
So, who does understand Quantum Mechanics?
Ask Richard Feynman.
Course Information
Course Schedule
Primary textbook:
A Modern Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, by John Townsend, Harvey Mudd College
Physics GRE practice test from the ETS.
Grade distributions for Midterm One.
Mid-term feedback form and results.
Notes from Prof. Persans' course
Pages on the Born Approximation for a square well potential.
Links for calculation of the Stark Effect in Hydrogen:
n=1 level
(Non-degenerate, quadratic in electric field)
n=2 level (Degenerate, linear in electric field)
Original research to test Hidden Variable Theories:
First experiment
A recent experiment
Slides on Spin Rotation Experiments.
Paper on neutron spin rotation and interferometry:
Phys.Rev.Lett.35(1975)1053
Modern measurements of g-2 for the muon at Brookhaven National Laboratory:
Their most recent publications are Phys.Rev.Lett.92(2004)161802
and Phys.Rev.D62(2000)091101.
Stern-Gerlach slides:
Apparatus diagram (Wikipedia)
Stern and Gerlach's result
Animation from the University of Groningen
Single passage demo from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), through SciLinks
Filtering applet from the University of Toronto
... and a nice article on the original measurement by Stern and Gerlach.
Jim Napolitano