Phy 360

Weeks 9-12:  QM Formalism

Announcements

Test 2. Tuesday November 3.

Readings

• Griffiths Chapter 3.  Read this chapter at LEAST twice.

• Physlet Quantum Physics
  Section 10.2: QM Infinite Square Well
  Section 10.4: Time Evolution
  Section 10.5: Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Probabilities
  Section 10.6: Two-State Superposition

Homework

Due Tuesday November 10 at 10:30.

Submit a title and a description of your final paper research topic with a minimum of THREE annotated references.

Due Thursday November 19 at 10:30.

Griffiths

• Chapter 3: problems 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 27, and 31.

Introduction to Matrix Representation:  Write down the first 4 by 4 elements of the ISW Hamiltonian and the SHO Hamiltonian operators in matrix notation using the Hamiltonian eigenfunctions as the orthonormal basis.