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: R. D. Klauber, Student-Friendly
Quantum Field Theory, Sandtrove Press.
My office is 420 Downs. My office hour is on Friday, 10-11
a.m.
TA: Tristan McKinney, 417 Downs. TA office hous is on
Tuesday, 4-5 pm.
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 in East Bridge. 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 Solutions for HW1
Week 2 HW Notes for week 2
Reading: section 1.3, 1.4 Solutions
for HW2
Week 3 HW Reading:
section 1.5 Solutions
for HW3
Week 4 HW
Reading: sections 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 Solutions for HW4
Week 5 HW Reading:
sections 1.9, 1.10. Solutions for HW5
Week 6 HW Reading: sections
1.11-1.16. Solutions
for HW6
Week 7 HW Reading: sections
1.17-1.19, 1.27. Solutions
for HW7
Week 8 HW Reading: sections 1.28,
1.21. Solutions for
HW8
Winter
quarter HW
Week 2: no HW
Week 6: no HW
Spring
Quarter HW
Week 3 - no HW