Reading

Week of 08/26

• Sakurai, Ch. 1.1-1.4

Week of 09/04

• Sakurai, Ch. 1.4-1.6

Week of 09/09

• Sakurai, Ch. 1.6-1.7, 2.1, and 2.3

Week of 09/16

• Sakurai, Ch. 2.2 and 2.4

Week of 09/23

• Sakurai, Ch. 2.5 (we’ll come back to the linear potential).

Week of 09/30

• Sakurai, Ch. 4.2 (some things we haven’t introduced yet)
• David Tong’s scattering lecture notes (linked in the “Bound states and the S-matrix” lecture)
• Feynman Lectures, Vol. III, Lecture 9 (“The Ammonia Maser”)

Week of ¹⁰⁄₀₇

• Sakurai, Ch. 2.5 (now the parts on linear potential and WKB) and 4.3

Week of ¹⁰⁄₁₄

• Sakurai, Ch. 2.6 and 2.7

Week of ¹⁰⁄₂₁

• Finish Sakurai Ch. 2.7; review for the midterm!

Week of ¹⁰⁄₂₈

• Sakurai, Ch. 3.1 and 3.5 (up to “Representations of the Rotation Operator”)

Week of ¹¹⁄₄

• Sakurai, Ch. 3.6 and 3.7

Week of ¹¹⁄₁₁

• Sakurai, Ch. 3.2 and 3.8

Week of ¹¹⁄₁₈

• Sakurai, Ch. 3.11

Week of ¹²⁄₂

• Review all readings from Sakurai Ch. 3; see also the alternative notes on tensor operators shared by e-mail.