Physics 206 Reading and Homework Assignments 2012

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Reading #1:  Read Shankar, Chapter 13, “The Hydrogen Atom” and Chapter 14, “Spin”. Read also Sakurai, Chapter 3.1. “Rotation and angular momentum commutation relations” and Chapter 3.2 “Spin ½ Systems and Finite Rotations”. Finish the reading by Friday, February 3.

Homework #1 (due Friday, February 3, in class): Shankar Exercises 13.1.1, 13.4.1, 13.4.2, and the following problem:

Calculate Ry in CGS system, in the eV units, and in the temperature units (Ry = kT, where k in the Boltzmann constant).

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Reading #2:  Read Shankar, Chapter 15, "Addition of Angular Momentum" and Sakurai, Chapter 3.7, “Addition of Angular Momentum” and Chapter 3.10, “Tensor Operators” (Chapter numbers are given according to the red book). Finish the reading by Monday, February 13.

Homework #2:  Shankar 14.3.2, 14.3.3, 14.3.4, 14.3.7, 14.3.8, 14.4.1, 14.4.3, 14.4.4, and Sakurai 3.4 (red book; in the grey book the problem is 3.5).  Turn in the homework on Monday, February 13, in class.  Please staple your sheets -- thank you.

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Reading #3:  Finish Shankar, Chapter 16, "The Variational and WKB Methods" by Friday, February 24.

Homework #3 (due Friday, February 24 , in class): Shankar 15.1.2 (part 1 only), 15.2.1 (part 1 only), 15.2.2, 15.2.3, 15.2.7 (note a misprint: is incorrect, it should be ), 15.3.1, 15.3.4, 16.1.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.5.,  and the following problem:

Construct a spherical tensor operator of rank 2 from the components of the Cartesian tensor operator .