There is no required text for this course. The library has many texts on this subject and I leave it to students to pick their favorite one. I don't follow closely any particular text (perhaps Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics is closest in spirit to my lecture notes) and I view the textbook as a complement to the lecture material.

Addition of angular momenta; rotations and scalar and vector operators, selection rules; two-body problem; particle in a sphericaly symmetric potential; hydrogen-like atom; Pauli principle and periodic table; nuclear shell model; degenerate perturbation theory; quadratic and linear Stark effects; electron in magnetic field, the Zeeman effect, Landau levels; the pictures of time evolution in quantum mechanics (Heisenberg and interaction); time-dependent perturbation theory; Fermi's golden rule; time-energy uncertainty relation; elastic scattering; Born approximation; partial waves and phase shifts; optical theorem.

• Penalty for Late Assignments: 10% deduction per day.
• A student must achieve 50% on the final exam to pass the course.
• Note that the last day to withdraw without academic penalty is Friday, March 5, 2010.

10 assignments (45%), 1 midterm test (10%), final exam (45%)