PHYSICS 115C
Quantum Mechanics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 115B. Time-independent perturbation theory, application to atomic spectra. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Fermi's golden rule. Scattering. Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Had Tomboulis for 115A,B, & C, and I'm grateful. Yes, his lectures are dry, but they are damn good, with plenty of examples to enforce understanding. You might get lost on a derivation or two, but no worries he will never EVER test you on them, and anything you could possibly need to know if provided in the equation sheets on the front of every exam. Also, go to his office hour. I didn't until halfway through B, and I was shocked when I did go. He may be uncomfortable lecturing in front of a large audience, but 1 on 1 he is very personable and perfectly willing to help.
Had Tomboulis for 115A,B, & C, and I'm grateful. Yes, his lectures are dry, but they are damn good, with plenty of examples to enforce understanding. You might get lost on a derivation or two, but no worries he will never EVER test you on them, and anything you could possibly need to know if provided in the equation sheets on the front of every exam. Also, go to his office hour. I didn't until halfway through B, and I was shocked when I did go. He may be uncomfortable lecturing in front of a large audience, but 1 on 1 he is very personable and perfectly willing to help.
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Winter 2020 - VVV is I think the best QM professor at UCLA. His tests are tough but fair and with lots of extra credit opportunities. His grading scale is also very generous, so as long as you do the homeworks and score about average on exams you should be fine. The material is also really interesting and useful in any field. Its all just ways to approximate differential equations that can't be easily solved. If you have the chance to take it with vvv you definitely should
Winter 2020 - VVV is I think the best QM professor at UCLA. His tests are tough but fair and with lots of extra credit opportunities. His grading scale is also very generous, so as long as you do the homeworks and score about average on exams you should be fine. The material is also really interesting and useful in any field. Its all just ways to approximate differential equations that can't be easily solved. If you have the chance to take it with vvv you definitely should
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