Lecture Notes

Lecture notes will be posted here, after each lecture.

If you spot any issues, anything missing, or you have trouble reading the files, please e-mail Prof. Neil.

• Hyperfine structure and relativity - Dec. 11, 2019
• Hydrogen fine structure - Dec. 9, 2019
• Perturbation theory and hydrogen - Dec. 6, 2019
• The projection theorem and multipole expansion - Dec. 4, 2019
• The Wigner-Eckart theorem - Dec. 2, 2019
• More on spherical tensors - Nov. 22, 2019
• Selection rules and spherical tensors - Nov. 20, 2019
• Vector and tensor operators - Nov. 18, 2019
• Product spaces, representations, and rotation symmetry - Nov. 15, 2019
• Clebsch-Gordan coefficients - Nov. 13, 2019
• Addition of angular momentum - Nov. 11, 2019
• The isotropic harmonic oscillator and spin-1/2 revisited - Nov. 8, 2019
• Wave mechanics in three dimensions - Nov. 6, 2019
• The Schrödinger equation in 3d - Nov. 4, 2019
• Orbital angular momentum - Nov. 1, 2019
• Rotations and angular momentum - Oct. 30, 2019
• The Aharonov-Bohm effect and magnetic monopoles - Oct. 28, 2019
• Local gauge invariance - Oct. 23, 2019
• Gauge symmetry - Oct. 21, 2019
• Path integration - Oct. 18, 2019
• The propagator - Oct. 16, 2019
• Continuous symmetries - Oct. 14, 2019
• Periodic potentials - Oct. 11, 2019
• Applications of WKB - Oct. 9, 2019
• The WKB approximation - Oct. 7, 2019
• Ammonia in an electric field, linear potential - Oct. 4, 2019
• The ammonia maser - Oct. 2, 2019
• The complex S-matrix, ammonia inversion - Sep. 30, 2019
• Bound states and the S-matrix - Sep. 27, 2019
• Transmission resonances and parity - Sep. 25, 2019
• The step potential and probability flux - Sep. 23, 2019
• More time evolution and intro to wave mechanics - Sep. 20, 2019
• Heisenberg picture - Sep. 18, 2019
• Time evolution and two-state systems - Sep. 16, 2019
• Time evolution - Sep. 13, 2019
• The Hamiltonian operator - Sep. 11, 2019
• Continuous operators - Sep. 9, 2019
• Compatible operators and uncertainty - Sep. 6, 2019
• Postulates of QM and two-state systems - Sep. 4, 2019
• Operators and More on Hilbert Spaces - Aug. 30, 2019
• Hilbert Spaces - Aug. 28, 2019
• Introduction - Aug. 26, 2019