PH523-Quantum Mechanics-3 (2019-20)

Course Name: Quantum Mechanics-3 (2019-20)

Course Code:  PH523

Credits: 6

Course Instructor:Asmita Mukherjee

Course Type:  Honors/Department Elective

Prerequisites:  QM-1, STR

Course Content:  
Basic Classical Field theory, Klein Gordon equation, Dirac equation, canonical quantization of scalar and spinor fields, scalar and spinor propagators.

Other Topics:

Useful Books: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics by Walter Greiner ( This book covers much much more than classwork but is a really good read imho)
A First book in QFT by Lahiri and Pal, An Introduction to QFT by Peskin and Schroeder

Online Study Material:

Lectures: Blackboard and Slides were used. 80% attendance policy.
Everything was done on the blackboard. Lectures were ok but the equations and concepts were  always introduced without any prior motivation or intuition.
The course content was also quite restricted and a complete picture of most concepts was not provided.
Assignments/Tutorials:
Tutorials were regularly uploaded and later discussed in class.

Exams:
2 Quizzes (15%) each, a midsem (30%) and an endsem (40%)
The questions were straight from the notes and tuts.
Advanced Follow up Courses:
Elementary particle physics, Special methods in particle physics

Pro-tips:

Personal Comments:

Respondent: Vijay V