| Syllabus | Grades | Disability Resources |
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| Assignments | Lectures |
| Week #1 | 1/23: Terminology, classical scattering 1/25: Wave packets, quantum scattering |
| Week #2 | 1/28: Complex analysis, contour integration 1/30: Green's functions, Born approximation 2/1: Partial wave expansion |
| Week #3 | 2/4: Optical theorem, phase shifts 2/6: Spherical expansion of Gk+ 2/8: No class! |
| Week #4 | As assigned in class |
| Week #5 |
2/18: Scattering with spin 2/20: Identical particles 2/22: Time translation op, quantization |
| Week #6 |
2/25: Pictures, transition amplitudes 2/27: Review 3/1: Exam #1 |
| Week #7 |
3/4: Lie algebras and Lie groups 3/6: Representation theory 3/8: SO(3) and SU(2) |
| Week #8 |
3/11: Reps of SU(2) 3/13: Clebsch-Gordan coefficients 3/15: Tensor operators, Wigner-Eckart theorem |
| Spring Break | |
| Week #9 | 3/25: Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation theory 3/27: Electrostatic polarization 3/29: No class |
| Week #10 | 4/1: Degenerate perturbation theory 4/3: Thomas precession 4/5: Fine structure in hydrogenic ions |
| Week #11 | 4/8: Zeeman effect 4/10: Helium, review, exam #2 distributed 4/12: No class! (APS meeting) |
| Week #12 | 4/15: No class! (APS meeting) 4/17: Interaction picture (take-home exam due) 4/19: Transition probabilities and rates |
| Week #13 | 4/22: No class! 4/24: Semiclassical radiation theory 4/26: Dipole and quadrupole approximations |
| Week #14 | 4/29: Photoelectric effect 5/1: Time-independent potentials 5/3: T-matrix |
| Week #15 | 5/6: Lippmann-Schwinger equation, Born series 5/8: S-matrix, partial waves 5/10: Optical theorem, time-reversal; Review |
| Week #16 | 5/17: Final Exam, 2 pm |
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