Schedule of lectures

Below is a rough outline of the lecture schedule for the course, to be modified as needed depending on our progress.

• Lecture 1 (Mon w1) – Postulates/axioms (chapter 1); Dirac notation/continuum states (chapter 2)
• Lecture 2 (Mon w2) – Composite systems/tensor product (chapter 3); Identical particles/particle statistics (chapter 4)
• Lecture 3 (Mon w3) – Quantum symmetries/rotations/angular momentum (chapters 5/6)
• Lecture 4 (Mon w4) – Addition of angular momentum (chapter 7)
• Lecture 5 (Mon w5) – Time-independent perturbation theory (chapter 8)
• Lecture 6 (Mon w6) – Variational methods (chapter 9)
• Lecture 7 (Mon w7) – WKB/semi-classical approximation (chapter 10)
• Lecture 8 (Mon w8) – Scattering (chapter 11); final remarks.