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 weighted average course
performance would yield. The relative course component weights
used to score your course grade are: