You have to break a serious sweat to learn quantum mechanics. The material is inherently difficult and it is common to be quite confused. With patience and diligence, the confusion lessens. Homework is issued weekly and is graded. I encourage you to work together on the problems. However, the final write-up must be your own work. Submitted homework assignments that are suspiciously similar will annoy me. There will be 1 in-class test as well as a final exam. See the PHYS 5382 syllabus for details.
Your final grade will be based on a weighted sum of your performance
on homework, tests and the final exam. Individual assignments do not
receive a letter grade. You should see me personally to know how you
are doing in the course. A stellar performance on the final exam
can result in a course grade much better than the average course
performance would yield. The relative course component weights
used to determine your course grade are:
