Instructor: John Wood
EMail: jw20 [at] prism.gatech.edu
Office: W507
Phone: (404) 894-5262
Time &Place:  TU,TH 1335-1455, S106

Lecture Supplement

1. Supplement to Lecture 7
2. Supplement to Lecture 8

Group Theory Lecture Files:

1. Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics
2. Matrix Groups
3. Generators and Lie Algebras
4. Representations of the Rotation Group, SO(3) and SU(2)
5. Irreducible Representations and Kronecker Products
6. Tensor Operators
7. Hydrogen Atom and SO(4)
8. The Three-Dimensional Isotropic Harmonic Oscillator and SU(3)
9. Central Force Problems and SO(2,1)
10. Quasispin and Fermion Pair Systems
11. Cartan Theory
12. Tensor Tableau Calculus
13. Coherent States
14. Vector Coherent States

Quantum Mechanics Lecture Files:

1. A Theory of Polarized Photons
2. A Theory of the Stern-Gerlach Experiment for Spin One-Half Particles
3. The Axioms of Quantum Mechanics
4. Linear Spaces and Linear Operators
5. The Harmonic Oscillator
6. Representations; Matrices
7. Observables and Measurements
8. Representations; Position, Momentum Wavefunctions and Function Spaces
9. Quantum Dynamics; Time Evolution and the Schroedinger and Heisenburg Pictures
10. Rotations and Continuous Transformation Groups
11. Angular Momentum and Spin in Quantum Mechanics
12. Representations of Rotations, Angular Momentum and Spin
13. Addition of Angular Momenta and Spins
14. Vector and Tensor Operators
15. Central Force Problems
16. Methods of Approximation
17. Time Dependent Phenomena
18. Electromagnetic Fields in Quantum Mechanics
19. Identical Particles
20. Scattering
21. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics