Luis Sánchez, currently an undergraduate physics student at Universidad de Guadalajara. My current research is in the area of interstellar molecular clouds (where star formation takes place) under the direction of Susana Lizano (at CRyA), we have preliminary results of the analytic expression that governs the photon flux in ionized regions with density gradients.
You can follow my adventures here.
Luis, receive this little award for your efforts to take afar the name of the U de G abroad:
Our local effort for a quantum mechanics course, mostly based on the books by Shankar, David Griffiths and Luis de la Peña.
This a list of topics we have covered this far:
Feb 22 (Griffiths, Ch. 1)
Problem set: OCW 5
Feb 26 (De la Peña, Ch. 3)
Problem set: Gasiorowicz: 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, 3.15
March 1 (Shankar A.2, de la Peña Ch. 4, Griffiths 2.4):
Problem Set: [ freepart.pdf]
March 5 (De la Peña 4.2, Park 2.5)
Problem Set: [ repmomental.pdf]
March 12 (Shankar 5.4)
Problem Set: [ wells.pdf]
March 15 (Griffiths 2.5, De la Peña 4.3, 4.4)
Problem Set: [ delta.pdf]
Because this lecture was particulary abstract I am posting here the lecture notes: [ 1],[ 2],[ 3]. You can also read about the free particle propagator in pag. 68 of Baym.
March 22 (Griffiths 2.3, De la Peña 11.2)
As promised, here is the Mathematica notebook so you can now "wag the dog" yourself: [ wagthedog.nb]
March 26 (Griffiths 2.3, de la Peña 11.4)
Problem Set: [ ho.pdf]
Now on: Formalism of quantum mechanics, you will need a working knowledge of linear algebra so read (Shankar Ch 1 or Griffiths 3.1 and 3.2).
April 16 (Griffiths 3.1, A.1, A.2, Shankar: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Problem Set: [ LA.pdf]
April 19 (Sakurai 1.2, Griffiths 3.2, 3.6)
Problem Set: [ dirac.pdf]
April 23 (de la Peña 9.1, 9.2)
April 27 (Griffiths 3.2, 3.3)
Problem Set: [ dyn.pdf]
May 7 (Shankar Ch 8, Park 6.1)
Problem Set: [ degeneracy.pdf]
May 10
Lecture notes [ potentials.pdf]
May 21
May 25
Problem Set: [ angmom.pdf]
May 28
I am planing to launch a seminar on electrodynamics that follows the superb text by the same name by Melvin Schwartz. Some other good books are the ones by Wagness or Lorrain, Corson. Of course we will work a bit on Jackson and Greiner.
If you want to attend leave a message. I am particulary interested in volunteer lecturers.
Expected level: Vector calculus and second rank tensors. The first chapter of Schwarz should be enough, no previous knowledge of PDE's is expected. A little exposure on special functions, particulary Legendre functions and Spherical harmonics. Relativistic kinematics will be used in the middle part of the seminar.
Overall organization
Veremos 2 temas: mecánica celeste y un poco de óptica. La bibliografía recomendada es
Todo lo necesario en mecánica y matemáticas para el material del curso se puede consultar en
En concreto lo que necesitas saber es: momento angular, fuerzas centrales, formulación lagrangiana de la mecánica y el vector de Runge-Lenz, las matemáticas necesarias son más bien elementales, cálculo vectorial, integrales elípticas (eso lo veremos rápido en clase) y funciones de Bessel.
Algunos temas que se vieron muy ligeramente y clase e indudablemente ocuparán son:
En resumen:
Luis Sánchez, currently an undergraduate physics student at Universidad de Guadalajara. My current research is in the area of interstellar molecular clouds (where star formation takes place) under the direction of Susana Lizano (at CRyA), we have preliminary results of the analytic expression that governs the photon flux in ionized regions with density gradients.
You can follow my adventures here.
Luis, receive this little award for your efforts to take afar the name of the U de G abroad:
Our local effort for a quantum mechanics course, mostly based on the books by Shankar, David Griffiths and Luis de la Peña.
This a list of topics we have covered this far:
Feb 22 (Griffiths, Ch. 1)
Problem set: OCW 5
Feb 26 (De la Peña, Ch. 3)
Problem set: Gasiorowicz: 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, 3.15
March 1 (Shankar A.2, de la Peña Ch. 4, Griffiths 2.4):
Problem Set: [ freepart.pdf]
March 5 (De la Peña 4.2, Park 2.5)
Problem Set: [ repmomental.pdf]
March 12 (Shankar 5.4)
Problem Set: [ wells.pdf]
March 15 (Griffiths 2.5, De la Peña 4.3, 4.4)
Problem Set: [ delta.pdf]
Because this lecture was particulary abstract I am posting here the lecture notes: [ 1],[ 2],[ 3]. You can also read about the free particle propagator in pag. 68 of Baym.
March 22 (Griffiths 2.3, De la Peña 11.2)
As promised, here is the Mathematica notebook so you can now "wag the dog" yourself: [ wagthedog.nb]
March 26 (Griffiths 2.3, de la Peña 11.4)
Problem Set: [ ho.pdf]
Now on: Formalism of quantum mechanics, you will need a working knowledge of linear algebra so read (Shankar Ch 1 or Griffiths 3.1 and 3.2).
April 16 (Griffiths 3.1, A.1, A.2, Shankar: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Problem Set: [ LA.pdf]
April 19 (Sakurai 1.2, Griffiths 3.2, 3.6)
Problem Set: [ dirac.pdf]
April 23 (de la Peña 9.1, 9.2)
April 27 (Griffiths 3.2, 3.3)
Problem Set: [ dyn.pdf]
May 7 (Shankar Ch 8, Park 6.1)
Problem Set: [ degeneracy.pdf]
May 10
Lecture notes [ potentials.pdf]
May 21
May 25
Problem Set: [ angmom.pdf]
May 28
I am planing to launch a seminar on electrodynamics that follows the superb text by the same name by Melvin Schwartz. Some other good books are the ones by Wagness or Lorrain, Corson. Of course we will work a bit on Jackson and Greiner.
If you want to attend leave a message. I am particulary interested in volunteer lecturers.
Expected level: Vector calculus and second rank tensors. The first chapter of Schwarz should be enough, no previous knowledge of PDE's is expected. A little exposure on special functions, particulary Legendre functions and Spherical harmonics. Relativistic kinematics will be used in the middle part of the seminar.
Overall organization
Veremos 2 temas: mecánica celeste y un poco de óptica. La bibliografía recomendada es
Todo lo necesario en mecánica y matemáticas para el material del curso se puede consultar en
En concreto lo que necesitas saber es: momento angular, fuerzas centrales, formulación lagrangiana de la mecánica y el vector de Runge-Lenz, las matemáticas necesarias son más bien elementales, cálculo vectorial, integrales elípticas (eso lo veremos rápido en clase) y funciones de Bessel.
Algunos temas que se vieron muy ligeramente y clase e indudablemente ocuparán son:
En resumen: