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: Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, vols. 1,2,
Cambridge University Press.
My office is 451 Lauritsen. My office hour is on Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
TA: Ketan Vyas, 471 Lauritsen. Ketan’s office hour is on Monday,
2:30-3:30 p.m.
There will be no exams; instead there will be a homework problem set each week.
It will be posted on this website each Wednesday and will be due a week later.
Homework should be given directly to the TA or left in his mailbox (4th
floor of Lauritsen, next to 452 Lauritsen). 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.
Fall quarter
Week 1 (due October 10) Week
2 (due October 17) Week 3 (due
October 24) Week 4 (due October 31)
Week 5 (due November 7) Week 6 (due November 14) - there was an error in the formulation of problem 1b, which has now been corrected.
Week 7 (due November 21) Week 8 (due
November 29)
Winter quarter
Week 1 (due Jan. 16)
Week 2 (due January 23) Week 3 (due
January 30) Week
4 (due February 6) Week 5 (due February 13)
Week 6 (due
February 20; the scan of the relevant pages of Bjorken-Drell is here) Week 7 –
no HW Week 8
(due March 5)
Week 9 (due March
12) Path-integral for fermions (from
Weinberg vol. 1): part1
part 2
Spring quarter
Week 1 (due April 9)
Week 2 (due April 16) Week 3 – no HW Week 4 (due April
30) Week 5
(due May 7)
Week 6 (due May 14) Week 7 –
no HW Week 8 (due
March 28)