Instructor: Peter Siegel, Room 8-215,Phone 869-4029,Email: pbsiegel@csupomona.edu, Home Page.
Office Hours: Mon 11-12 and 1-2, Wed 11-12 and 1-2, Fri 1-2
Lecture Hours: Mon and Wed 4-6pm via Elluminate-Web and room 8-210
Textbook: Introduction to Elementary Particles (Second Edition) by David Griffiths. Griffiths book is very good. It is worth buying and keeping as a reference.
Grading:
Homework | 50% |
Midterm Exam (April 27) | 20% |
Final Exam (June 6) | 30% |
Homework: Homework will consist of problems from the text as well as problems and computer programming projects that I will assign. The homework will be posted on my home page. The solutions will be posted on my home page after the due date.
Exams: The midterm exam is worth 20%. It will last one hour, and you may use your textbook (only). The final will be similar in format to the midterm, but will last two hours. (30%). The time for the final is Monday, June 6, from 4:00 - 6:00 pm.
Date | Sections in text | Topic |
Mon March 21 | Ch. 1 | Review of the Postulates of QM |
Wed 23 | Ch. 2 | Review of non-relativistic QM |
Mon 28 | 3.1-3.3 | Relativistic Kinematics |
Wed 30 | 3.4-3.5 | Relativisitic Collisions |
Mon April 4 | 4.1 | Symmetry, Groups and Conservation Laws |
Wed 6 | 4.2 | SU(2) Symmetry (Hwk 1 Due) |
Mon 11 | 4.3 | Isospin Symmetry |
Wed 13 | 4.4 | Parity and CP |
Mon 18 | 6.1 | Decays and Scattering Processes(Hwk 2 Due) |
Wed 20 | 6.2 | Perturbation Theory, Fermi's Golden Rule |
Mon 25 | 6.2 | Feynman Rules for Scattering |
Wed 27 | 6.3 | Feynman Rules for Decays (Hwk 3 Due) |
Mon May 2 | --- | Review Exam |
Wed 4 | 7.1 | Dirac Equation |
Mon 9 | 7.2 | Free Particle Solutions |
Wed 11 | 7.3-7.7 | Electron-Muon Scattering |
Mon 16 | 9.1-9.2 | Intro to Weak Interaction |
Wed 18 | 9.4 | Muon and Pion Decay |
Mon 23 | 9.5-9.7 | Neutral Current, Chiral States Hwk 4 Due |
Wed 25 | 9..7 | Electroweak Unification |
Mon 30 | --- | Holiday: Memorial Day |
Wed June 1 | 9.7 | Local gauge invarience, neutrino oscillations |
Fri June 3 | --- | Hwk 5 Due |
Mon 6 | 4-6pm | Final Exam |