This is the second part of the course covering the material for Paper A3 in the Part A exams.
The syllabus can be found on page 38 of the Physics Undergraduate Course Handbook
The lectures start in 5th week of Hilary Term and will finish in 4th week of Trinity
Term. All the teaching material will be posted
here. Synopsis and book list for Hilary Term in pdf Synopsis for Trinity Term in pdf Problem Set for Hilary Term in pdf Problem Set for Trinity Term in pdf PDF scans of lecture notes:
Hydrogen I and II; Perturbation Theory; Fine Structure I; Fine Structure II; Zeeman Effect, Helium I, Variational and Exchange Principles; Helium Spectrum, Exchange again; Time Dependent Potentials; Selection Rules + Fermi's Golden Rule (beware - large files) PDF files for pictures: Hydrogen spectrum, H spectrum labelled with j and l, Helium spectrum, no mutual repulsion, Helium spectrum, with mutual repulsion Old QM questions:
first set; second set;
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