Quantum Mechanics I

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Fall 2026

• Syllabus

• Course Overview

• Recommended reading

Notes:

• Natural Units
• Dirac notation
• Two-level system
• Stern-Gerlach
• Translations
• Time Evolution
• Ehrenfast Theorem (Read S&N Sec. 2.2.4)
• Time Ordered Evolution

Homeworks:

• HW 1 (Compatible, incompatible observables, and Schrõdinger’s equation in different bases), solutions
• HW 2 (Three-level systems), solutions
• HW 3 (Stern-Gerlach), solutions
• HW 4 (Unitary Operators and Complex Momentum), solutions
• HW 5 (Neutrino oscillations), solutions
• HW 6 (Harmonic Oscillator)