AM 473Quantum Mechanics 2
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1994–95 (before that, 1976–77 to 1980–81 used the number for Theory of Relativity and Selected Topics in Applied Differential Geometry); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Vector space formalism, Schrédinger and Heisenberg pictures, elements of second quantization. Angular momentum, selection rules, symmetry and conservation laws. Approximation methods: variation principle, perturbation theory and WKB approximation. Identical particles, Pauli Principle and simple applications to atomic, molecular, solid state, scattering and nuclear problems.
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: AM 373, or consent of instructor
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1994–95 6 calendars
Vector space formalism, Schrédinger and Heisenberg pictures, elements of second quantization. Angular momentum, selection rules, symmetry and conservation laws. Approximation methods: variation principle, perturbation theory and WKB approximation. Identical particles, Pauli Principle and simple applications to atomic, molecular, solid state, scattering and nuclear problems.
Prereq: AM 373, or consent of instructor
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1981–82 to 1988–89 calendars.
1979–80 to 1980–81 2 calendars
Another title: Selected Topics in Applied Differential Geometry, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
1-parameter groups of transformations and the Lie derivative, pseudo-Riemannian spaces, Killing vectors, normal coordinates, submanifolds of pseudo-Riemannian spaces, conformally related and projectively related pseudo-Riemannian spaces, parailel propagation and Fermi-Walker transport, Frobenius’ theorem, frame fields and spinors. Prereq: AM 362 or consent of instructor.
Offered Winter · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit
1977–78 to 1978–79 2 calendars
Another title: Selected Topics in Applied Differential Geometry, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Parallel propagation and Fermi-Walker transport, geometrical interpretation of the curvature tensor, Lie derivatives and Killing vector fields, conformally related and projectively related Riemannian spaces, -Submanifolds. Frobenius’ theorem, frame fields and spinors.
Prereq: AM 362, or consent of instructor
Offered Winter · 2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1976–77 1 calendar
Another title: Theory of Relativity, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Flat space-time and special relativity, curved space-time and the Einstein gravitational field equations. The Schwarzschild solutions and the experimental tests of relativity. Maxwell’s equations, the Reissner-Nordstrom solution. Topics from cosmology, Petrov classification, spinors, gravitational waves, special solutions. Prerequisite: AM 362. Consent of instructor.
2 hours lectures. Winter term