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Schedule

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Week	Date	Lecture	Lecture Notes	Discussion	Homework
1	08/26	Review of Phys486		none	no HW
	08/28	Indistinguishable particles	Lecture notes 2
2	09/02	Labor Day		Discussion 1	HW1 (due 09/17) HW1sol
	09/04	Exchange forces	Lecture notes 3
3	09/09	Addition of angular momentum	Lecture notes 4	Discussion 2	HW2 (due 09/24) HW2sol
	09/11	Atoms	Lecture notes 5
4	09/16	The periodic table, variational method	Lecture notes 6	Discussion 3	HW3 (due 10/01) HW3sol
	09/18	The periodic table, 1st order perturbation theory
5	09/23	The periodic table		Discussion 4	HW4 (due 10/08) HW4sol
	09/25	The electron gas	Lecture notes 7
6	09/30	Energy bands in solids	Lecture notes 8	Discussion 5	HW5 (due 10/22) (Note: extended deadline) HW5sol
	10/02	Quantum stat mech	Lecture notes 9
7	10/07	Perturbation theory	Lecture notes 10	Discussion 6	No HW
	10/09	The Stark effect	Lecture notes 11
8	10/14	Spin-orbit coupling	Lecture notes 12	Discussion 7	HW6 (due 10/29) HW6sol
	10/16	The Zeeman effect	Lecture notes 13
9	10/21	The Lamb shift, hyperfine splitting	Lecture notes 14	Discussion 8	none
	10/23	Molecular bonding	Lecture notes 15
10	10/28	Midterm Exam	midterm problems practice exam practice exam solutions	none	HW7 (due 11/12) HW7sol
	10/30	Time-dependent perturbation theory	Lecture notes 16
11	11/04	Time-dependent perturbation theory, Rabi oscillation	Lecture notes 17	Discussion 9	HW8 (due 11/19) HW8sol
	11/06	Emission& Absorption of Radiation	Lecture notes 18
12	11/11	Spontaneous Emission	Lecture notes 19	Discussion 10	HW9 (due 12/03) (Note: extended deadline due to Thanksgiving) HW9sol
	11/13	Radiative Broadening/Selection Rules	Lecture notes 20
13	11/18	Scattering	Lecture notes 21	Discussion 11	HW10 (due 12/03) HW10sol
	11/20	Partial wave analysis of scattering	Lecture notes 22
14	11/25	Thanksgiving break		none	none
	11/27	Thanksgiving break
15	12/02	Scattering Phase Shifts/the Optical Theorem	Lecture notes 23	none	HW12 (due 12/17)
	12/04	Green's Functions/The Born Approximation	Lecture notes 24
16	12/09	Coulomb Scattering/The Yukawa Potential	Lecture notes 25	none	none
	12/11	Questions
	12/17	Final exam

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