Quantum Mechanics II

The follow-up to introductory quantum mechanics, this course pushes past one-particle Schrödinger problems into the machinery you actually need for real systems: spin and angular momentum coupling, identical particles and the statistics that come with them, and, since almost nothing is exactly solvable, perturbation theory, the variational method, and scattering formalism. Expect heavy problem sets out of Griffiths & Schroeter, two midterms and a final all in written/essay format, plus a performance component, with the workload front-loaded onto homework and exam prep. It's the bridge between learning what quantum mechanics says and being able to compute with it on atoms, molecules, and condensed-matter or particle-physics problems, so this is the course whose techniques you'll keep reusing in statistical mechanics, solid state, and any graduate-level physics you go on to take.