Welcome to PHYS 5383. Acquiring a non-trivial
understanding of the quantum mechanics is a significant cultural
achievement and something you should take pride in. Quantum mechanics
is humanity's deepest understanding of the physical
universe. Correspondingly, it is difficult to learn because, aside
from its own technical jargon and mathematical formalism, it requires
you to
Homework is issued more or less 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 3 regular tests as well as a final exam. See the PHYS 5383 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 then the average course
performance would yield. The relative course component weights
used to determine the course grade are: