PHYSICS 706



PHYSICS 706, SPRING 2009

(updated April 30, 2009)

From now on, lectures will take place in Thornton, room 425.

  • Reminder: FINAL (take home) due in class on Thursday, May 14, at the beginning of class.
    The exam (REVISED VERSION) can be downloaded through the links below.
    NO LATE EXAMS WILL BE ACCEPTED!!

  • FINAL: (postscript) (pdf)

  • INTERMEDIATE GRADES and MIDTERM SCORES
    Intermediate grades have been calculated based on 1/3 homework and 2/3 midterm, and are estimates only. They are listed by your SFSU student ID, preceded by the score on the midterm (out of a maximum of 50).
    Click here: grades

  • course syllabus: (postscript) (pdf)

    Sofar, we have covered the material of chapter 1, section 1 (but see also the discussion of the spin-1/2 example on pages 26-28; I did that example in more detail in class, but did not discuss the instructive analogy with polarized light on pages 6-10), sections 2 through 7; chapter 2, sections 1, 2 (except the final subsection on pp. 87-89), 3, 4 (I discussed the WKB approximation in much more detail; see for instance the book by Griffiths listed in the syllabus), chapter 3, sections 1, 2, some elements of section 3, sections 5, 6, 7, 10, chapter 4, section 2 (read also section 1).

  • homework set #1; due: February 12 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #2; due: February 19 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #3; due: February 26 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #4; due: March 5 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #5; due: March 12 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #6; due: March 19 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #7; due: April 16 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #8; due: April 23 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #9; due: April 30 (postscript) (pdf)
  • homework set #10; due: May 7 (postscript) (pdf)