Physics 412-3
Quantum Mechanics III
Spring 2022
J. A. Sauls

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Lecture Notes:

• 3/29/2022: Lecture 01 - Central Forces & Rotational Symmetry
• 3/30/2022: Lecture 02 - Dynamical Symmetry and Hydrogenic Atoms
• 4/01/2022: Lecture 03 - Hydrogenic Atoms - Orbital Magnetism
• 4/04/2022: Lecture 04 - Stern-Gerlach & Spin = 1/2
• 4/06/2022: Lecture 05 - Pauli's Theory of Electron Spin
• 4/08/2022: Lecture 06 - g=2 & Paschen-Back Spectrum for Hydrogen
• 4/11/2022: Lecture 07 - Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
• 4/15/2022: Lecture 08 - Dirac's Theory - Unitary Evolution and Lorentz Invariance
• 4/18/2022: Lecture 09 - Dirac's Theory - Spinors for Relativistic Electrons
• 4/20/2022: Lecture 10 - Helicity, Spin & Angular Momentum Conservation
• 4/22/2022: Lecture 11 - Dirac's Theory - Non-Relativistic Limit & Pauli's Theory
• 4/25/2022: Lecture 12 - Fine Structure Corrections to Pauli's Theory
• 4/27/2022: Lecture 13 - Hyperfine Interactions in Atoms
• 4/29/2022: Lecture 14 - Quantization of the Radiation Field - Introduction
• 5/02/2022: Lecture 15 - Quantization of the Radiation Field - Fock States
• 5/04/2022: Lecture 16 - Quantization of the Radiation Field - Glauber States
• 5/06/2022: Lecture 17 - Vacuum Energy & The Casimir Force
• 5/09/2022: Lecture 18 - Planck Distribution for Thermal Radiation
• 5/11/2022: Lecture 19 - Time-dependent Phenomena in Quantum Mechanics

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Information:

1. 3/29/2022: Getting the Most out of this course
2. 3/29/2022: Mask Policy Update
3. 4/15/2022: NIST Tables of Physical Constants
4. 4/15/2022: NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Database
5. 4/25/2022: Radiation from Galactic Hydrogen at 1,420 Mc/sec, H. Ewen and E.M. Purcell.
6. 5/07/2022: On the Attraction between to Perfectly Conducting Plates, H. B. Casimir, May 29, 1948.
7. 5/07/2022: The Casimir force between real materials: Experiment and theory, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1827 (2009).
8. 5/11/2022: Invariant Tensors and Integration of Tensors Defined on a Sphere.