Physics at the Macquarie University Australia (Faculty of Science)

Phys201

Interference and Diffraction & Wave Mechanics

Lecture slides for diffraction and interference   Lecture slides for wave mechanics   Syllabus for wave mechanics   Additional notes	Click here. Click here. Click here. Complex Algebra.
Assignments	Assignment 4  (corrected version 29 April) (Interference and Diffraction) Assignment 5 (Interference and Diffraction/Wave Mechanics)
Lecture Notes (to be updated)	Ch1: Introduction Ch2: The Early History of Quantum Mechanics Ch3: The Wave Function Ch4: The Two Slit Experiment Ch5: Probabilities, Expectations Values and UncertaintiesNot all the material in this chapter is required for PHYS201. Ch6: The Schr�dinger Wave Equation

Phys301

Quantum Mechanics

Syllabus	Click here.
Assignments	Assignments and solutions for 2009: Assignment 1
Sample Problems	Sample Problems on State Vectors  Sample Problems on Representations of State Vectors and Operators  Sample Problems on Quantum Dynamics
Summaries	Summary of Properties of Bras and Kets
Lecture Notes as at 27 April 2009	Table of Contents and Foreword Ch1: Introduction Ch2: The Early History of Quantum Mechanics Ch3: The Wave Function Ch4: The Two Slit Experiment Ch5: Wave Mechanics Ch6: Particle Spin and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Ch7: Probability Amplitudes Ch8: Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics Ch9: General Mathematical Description of a Quantum System Ch10: State Spaces of Infinite Dimension Ch11: Operations on States Ch12: Matrix Representations of State Vectors and Operators Ch13: Observables and Measurements in Quantum Mechanics Ch14: Probability, Expectation Value and Uncertainty Ch15: Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics Not all this material, particularly that related to infinite dimensional state spaces is required for PHYS301.
Lecture Slides	As of 27 April 2009.

Phys304

Quantum Mechanics II

Unit Outline
Handouts	Summary of Important Mathematical and Physical Concepts Questions from past exam papers
Lecture Notes	Quantum Physics Lecture Notes.  This is the current version of the notes as of 8 February 2011. Changes and additions will occur whenever I get the chance.

Phys378

General Relativity and Cosmology

Unit Outline	Click here.
Assignments	Assignment 1 Assignment 1 Solution Assignment 2
Lecture Notes	Lecture Notes for Special Relativity Updated 8 August to include a better discussion of derivation of Lorentz transformation.

Reference: 

http://physics.mq.edu.au/~jcresser/