Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory Georgia Tech PHYS-7147 spring 2003 Tue, Thu 09:35-10:55 Howey S204 Assignement for the coming week: Path integrals and the WKB approximation ---------------------------------- ----- Exercise, due morning Thu Feb 6 2003: In the class I used WKB formalism to quantize one particle moving in an arbitrary bound 1-d potential. That is the quickest way in 1-d, but it was not an application of path integrals. Use path integral formulism to quantize 1-dimensional harmonic oscillator. Write this up in essay form, explaing what to do. Use anything you can find in literature for inspiration, if my lecure notes are insufficient. Browny points: My lecture notes have lots of typos, and instances where the same text is unnecessarily repeated in several places. If you catch some of these, please give me your corrections marked on the current version, and I'll give you the edited version back as soon as I can. Predrag