Questions?
Check the Message Board at KSU
Online to see if it's already been answered or to post your question.
You can also email me at esry@phys.ksu.edu,
stop by my office CW 329, or call 532-1620.
Are you ready yet?
Take a look at our departmental exam in quantum
mechanics. It is what our department expects someone with a B.S.
in physics to know. In other words, what you should know at
the end of this course! We won't be able to cover all of the material
on that exam, but at the end of this course you should be well enough prepared
to be able to pick up the extra topics on your own.
Guidelines for homework:
| Discuss your homework with classmates as much as you like, but write your homework solutions on your own! There will be a severe grade penalty for copying. |
| As a scientist in training, you need to learn to communicate scientific information in an effective, efficient manner. You should consider homework assignments as practice in this art. It is your responsibility to present your homework solutions in a readable, logical manner --- not mine to decipher and interpret them. There will be a grade penalty. |
| In an incorrect solution, I will reward statements in homework and on exams that show you know it is incorrect and why. I will also reward any effort above and beyond what is explicitly asked for in a problem. |
Exams:
Homework assignments:
Due Oct. 8: HW 5
Due Oct. 17: HW 6
Mid-Term
Final
Due Sept. 3: HW 1
Due Sept. 10: HW
2
Due Sept. 17: HW
3
Due Sept. 24: HW 4
Time
evolution code and input file
To use this code, you will need access to a Fortran 90 compatible
compiler. The code assumes that the input file will be read from
standard input. In Unix or Linux, if you created an executable called
CN1D.x, then the command would be: CN1D.x < CN1D.inp . The probability
density at different times are written to different files called fort.*.
You should all have accounts on the Physics Dept. Sun computers running
Unix. If you don't, let me know, and we'll set one up. If you're
having trouble, try getting together with someone who knows what's going
on. Make sure that you run the code on your own, however. You
will have future assignments using this code or something similar, so it's
better if you understand how to make the sort of changes necessary for
this assignment, how to compile, etc.
Eigensolver
and input file
Compile this code just as you did the program for HW 4.
The potential is defined in one place in the file, so should be straightforward
to modify. You probably will have to add an open statement as is
described on the message board to read in the input file. Make sure
that your grid (xMin and xMax) is large enough to contain the wave function
(i.e. the wave function should have decayed smoothly to zero before the
boundary)!
Due Oct. 24: HW 7
Due Nov. 7: HW 8
Due Nov. 14: HW 9
Due Nov. 26: HW 10
Due Dec. 12: HW 11
Due Dec. 12: HW 12