Physics 520, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I

PHY 404G Mechanics, Fall 2018

Course Information:

Instructor:	Christopher B. Crawford, 7-2504, CP295A
Office hours:	Thurs 11:00-12:00; recitation Thursday at 3:00-5:00
Grader:	Si-Nong Liu, 7-5238, Blazer 372.
Class schedule:	M W F 9:00-9:50, CP183
CMS:	Announcements and assignments are managed in Canvas.
Textbook:	Grant W. Mason, "A Short Introduction to Theoretical Mechanics," (required)
	John r. Taylor, "Classical mechanics" (recommended)
	Grant R. Fowles, "Analytical Mechanics" (supplement)

Resources:	syllabus, academic support, (old), course feedback,

Homework

HW	Due Date	Problems

H01	Fri, 08/31	HW 1, Rev. B (source)
H02	Thur, 09/13	HW 2, Rev. C (source, note)
H03	Sun, 09/23	HW 3, Rev. C (source, Fig 1, pendulum.m)
H04	Thur, 09/27	HW 4, Rev. B (source)
H05	Mon, 10/08	HW 5, Rev. D (source)
H06	Tues, 10/16	HW 6, Rev. B (source)
H07	Fri, 10/28	HW 7, Rev. B (source)
H08	Tues, 11/06	HW 8, Rev. A (source)
H09	Tues, 11/20	HW 9, Rev. A (source)
H10	Thur, 12/06	HW 10, Rev. A (source)
H11	[bonus]	HW 11, Rev. A (source)

Resources
- Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator
- Octave Online Linear Algebra
- Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical functions, NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C
- Spencer, Ware, Introduction to Matlab - BYU Physics