Physics 621
Fall 2026

Graduate Quantum Mechanics I 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/27                     Review of Basic Quantum Mechanics
  Syllabus
  
  Thursday, August 27 Overheads -- Introductory lecture
  Lecture 0, Thursday, August 27: Course structure, 2-slit interference, superposition, measurement.
  
  Quiz on Tuesday, Sept. 1 on section 1.1 "The Stern-Gerlach Experiment" (p1-10) of Sakurai & Napolitano.
  
  
  
• Week 1: 9/1-3                     Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  Tuesday, September 1 Overhead -- 5-state Stern-Gerlach separation
  Lecture 1, Tuesday, September 1: Vector spaces, orthornormal basis, inner product.
  
  Quiz on Thursday, Sept. 3 on eigenvalues & eigenvectors for 2×2 and 3×3 matrices.