PHYSICS 115A
Quantum Mechanics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH), 17, 105A, 131. Corequisite: course 105B. Classical background. Basic ideas of quantum nature of light, wave-particle duality, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Bohr atom, physical operators. Schrödinger equation. One-dimensional square well and harmonic oscillator problems. Boundary values. Classical correspondences. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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This is quite possibly the worst professor at UCLA. To start, the book he chose to teach the course was full of errors, many of which he noted himself. His lectures were just filled with formulas and derivations which he failed to explain, and his notation was inconsistent, making it difficult to follow. He was unhelpful during office hours and sometimes could not even answer the questions he assigned. His TA was extremely lazy and was never available. Don't take a class with Williams, it will ruin your quarter.
This is quite possibly the worst professor at UCLA. To start, the book he chose to teach the course was full of errors, many of which he noted himself. His lectures were just filled with formulas and derivations which he failed to explain, and his notation was inconsistent, making it difficult to follow. He was unhelpful during office hours and sometimes could not even answer the questions he assigned. His TA was extremely lazy and was never available. Don't take a class with Williams, it will ruin your quarter.
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