Ph 205 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
This
is a 3-quarter course covering basic quantum field theory,
including
QED,
renormalization, path-integrals, and Yang-Mills theory.
Textbooks
Required: Mark Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory,
Recommended: Peskin and Schroeder, An
Introduction
to
Quantum
Field
Theory, Addison-Wesley; Steven
Weinberg, The Quantum
Theory of
Fields, vols. 1,2,
Cambridge University Press.
My office is 420 Downs. My office hour is on Friday, 1-2 p.m.
TA: Denis Bashkirov, 413 Downs. Denis’s office hour is on
Tuesday, 7-9
p.m.
There will be no exams; instead there will be a homework
problem set
each week.
It will be posted on this website Wednesday night or Thursday
morning and will be due a week
later.
Homework should be given directly to the TA or left in his
mailbox. The
TA will produce solution sets;
you will find them outside of my office. Graded homework will
be placed
there
as well. Grading will be done on the basis of the homework. If
you need
an
extension, you should ask me in advance; without an extension
late
homework
will not be graded.
Grading scheme: each problem is
worth 10
pts, unless it is made of subproblems, in which case each
subproblem is
worth 10 pts. A passing grade is getting 50% of the maximal
possible
number of points.
Fall quarter HW
Week
1
HW
Notes for week 1
Reading:
section 1.1
Week
2
HW
Notes for week 2 Reading:
sections
1.3, 1.4, 1.22
Week
3
HW
Reading: sections 1.4, 1.5
Week
4
HW
Reading: sections 1.5, 1.6
Week
5
HW
Reading: sections 1.6, 1.7
Week
6
HW
Reading: sections 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
Week
7
HW
Reading: sections 1.11, 1.13, 1.14