Current courses - Spring 2024

I am teaching the following courses this semester:

• PH623: Introduction to general relativity and cosmology
  References: S. Carroll for GR; B. Ryden for cosmology; S. Dodelson for few topics in cosmology - fundamental equations, single component universes, etc.
  • Course outline, Lecture plan and general information
  • Newton vs Einstein and review of STR
  • Introduction to GR and review of tensors
  • Assignment 1
  • Intro to GR part II
  • Assignment 2
  • Parallel transport and geodesics
  • Curvature tensors
  • Einstein equation
  • Redshift, FRW metric, Friedmann equation
  • NOTE: Refer to B. Ryden, Chap. 1 for review of cosmological observations.
  • Assignment 3
  • Fundamental equations of cosmology
  • Cosmic dynamics and the standard model of the universe
  • Horizon, flatness, monopole problems and the paradigm of inflation
  • The physics of inflation
• EP302: Quantum Mechanics II
  References: R. Shankar for pre-midsem syllabus; Sakurai (Modern QM) for radiation theory, symmetries; M. Schwartz (QFT) for QFT.
  • Course outline and Lecture plan
  • WKB and Bohr-Sommerfield condition
  • Time dependent perturbation theory
  • Assignment 1
  • Scattering theory
  • Born approximation
  • Partial wave analysis
  • Radiation theory and Einstein coefficients
  • Symmetries in QM
  • NOTE: For Rotation group and Wigner-Eckart theorem refer to own class notes or Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics, Chap. 3.
  • Assignment 2
  • Discrete symmetries
  • Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Review of STR
  • Lorentz Group
  • Klein-Gordon field
  • Klein-Gordon field quantization
  • Assignment 3: 3-minute video project (Read the instructions in email carefully!). Submission Link (Due on Fri 3/5/2024 11:59pm).
  • Additional notes: Quantized KG field; Dirac field

Past courses

• PH521: Atomic and Molecular Physics (Autumn 2023)
• PH427: Numerical Techniques (pre-midsem, Autumn 2023)

NOTE: All course materials will be uploaded from time to time on this page. Stay tuned!