Physics 139B UCSC
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| * I guess I will see many of you at noon tomorrow for my office hours, during which we could work out some homework problems. In addition, please feel free to ask your questions on the forum or by email. Good discussions in my course really protects you, since (1) you are a learner—I/you/nobody should expect you be a knower alreay, and (2) your willingness to learn will make me respect you.—~-''<<DateTime(2013-10-20T20:10:29-0700)>>''-~ | * I guess I will see many of you tomorrow for my office hours (noon-2PM), during which we could work out some homework problems. In addition, please feel free to ask your questions on the forum or by email. Good discussions in my course really protects you, since (1) you are a learner—I/you/nobody should expect you be a knower alreay, and (2) your willingness to learn will make me respect you.—~-''<<DateTime(2013-10-20T20:10:29-0700)>>''-~ |
Welcome to Phys 139B, 2013!
I guess I will see many of you tomorrow for my office hours (noon-2PM), during which we could work out some homework problems. In addition, please feel free to ask your questions on the forum or by email. Good discussions in my course really protects you, since (1) you are a learner—I/you/nobody should expect you be a knower alreay, and (2) your willingness to learn will make me respect you.—8:10PM, Oct 20, 2013
Office hours: Monday 12-2 PM, Thursday, Friday, 1-2 PM, or OBA. (Syllabus updated.)—7:34PM, Oct 13, 2013
Welcome to the second part of Quantum Mechanics!
In this course, you will learn how to use Quantum Mechanics, now that you have thoroughly learned, in 139A, what Quantum Mechanics is. (However, we will review the essentials of the formalism of Quantum Mechanics, as we begin 139B.) The topics to be covered include perturbation theories, the variational principle, scattering, the WKB approximation, the adiabatic principle and the Berry’s phase. These contents that you will learn will make you feel good, I believe, not only because you will learn to calculate things and apply your results to physical situations, but also because this process of using Quantum Mechanics will enrich your notion of what Quantum Mechanics really is all about.