Last updated 21 Oct. 2015 (all is now final for this year)
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NOTE: For students that need to deal with a delayed delivery of the book, you can download some early parts of the book from the nestor web pages of this course.
Direct link to the 2015-2016 roster, sometimes still changing (check each week!)
For the academic year 2015-2016 the teacher and coordinator of the course Quantum Physics 1 is
Prof. Caspar van der Wal , tel. 363 4555, c.h.van.der.wal[AT]rug.nl.
The book that will be used for Quantum Physics 1 (and also for Quantum Physics 2) is:
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
David J. Griffiths
2nd edition
NOTE: there are many versions of this available with different ISBN's,
but any version that is a 2nd edition is fine.
Quantum Physics 1 will roughly cover the Chapters 1 to 5, with some extra topics.
A more detailed planning and study guide is provided below here.
If you still want to do the exam, while preparing yourself on the basis of the Liboff book and the 2010-2011 course materials, you need to discuss this and get permission from Caspar van der Wal at least 4 weeks before the exam date.
The links below here provide further materials and information for the course, like the syllabus (the practical information on how the course is organised, including the rules for the PARTLY open book exam and the optional BONUS POINT fromt the mid-term exam).
You also find a link to the DETEAILED STUDY GUIDE (contents per week, listing the sections of the book etc.) which lists your HOMEWORK for each week. This is updated each week while the course is running.
Syllabus2015-2016.pdf
Please note the warning and rules about the PARTLY open-book exam.
The mid-term and final exam are PARTLY open-book exam. Here are the rules:
You can bring the book by Griffiths, and 1 A4 paper (yes, front and back side) with personal notes (a self-made formula sheet).
You can also use the handouts Note on Two-Levels Systems, and Exchange Degeneracy for Identical Particles and
the Feynman Lectures chapter III-1. You are NOT allowed to bring problems sets of the weekly course work or previous exams (or papers with the answers to these). Besides a basic scientific pocket calculator, you are not allowed to bring any electronic instruments (that is, no computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.)
WARNING: In practice this means that you can only use your book for a minute to look up some detail of a complicated equations or a +/- sign. The problems on the exam require that you have insight in the study material, and that you practised a lot on problem sets. Assume that during the exam you only have a few minutes available for double-checking facts in the book. You will only pass the exam if you come well prepared.
Detailed Study Guide: Homework and planning of each week
This list also defines what you should know for the mid-term and final exam.
This list is updated each week while the course is running.
Overview of the extra study and reading material
When needed also errata for the book, most other hand-outs, etc.
Problem sets for the tutorials
Previous mid-term exams and final exams
Grades of mid-term test and final exams
Link to schedule and dates of lectures (hoorcollege and werkcollege), and dates of final exams