This plan will be updated and adjusted as we go. () refers to GS sections.


Mon Wed
Aug. 27 composite systems identical particles (5.1)
Sep. 3
electron gas (5.3.1 & Appelbaum notes)
Sep. 10 degeneracy pressure, combining spatial & spin degrees of freedom (4.4,5.1) helium (5.2.1)
Sep. 17 atoms, periodic table, Hund's rules (4.4, 5.2.2), spin-orbit coupling (7.3.2) ferro- and para-magnetism, magnetic moments (7.3.2), Feynman-Hellmann theorem
Sep 24 magnetism demos,relativistic and spin-orbit corrections (7.3) diamagnetism, fine structure
Oct. 1 nuclear magnetic moments, hyperfine int. (7.5), addn. of angular momenta pert. thy (7.1); Zeeman effect history
Oct. 8 Zeeman effect (7.4) band structure (5.3.2)
Oct. 15 band structure, symmetries symmetries
Oct. 22 exam variational
Oct. 29 WKB WKB
Nov. 5 scattering scattering
Nov. 12 dynamics dynamics
Nov. 19 dynamics
Nov. 26 dynamics dynamics
Dec. 3 dynamics dynamics
Dec. 10 dynamics
Final exam, Dec. 18