Aug 24, 2025  
**DRAFT**2025-2026 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog **DRAFT** 
    
**DRAFT**2025-2026 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog **DRAFT**

PHYS 460 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: PHYS 402 with a minimum grade of “C-“
See Addenda to the 2025/2026 Catalog  for changes to this course effective Spring 2026

The frameworks of both the wave function and matrix formalisms of quantum mechanics are developed, adding depth to and extending topics from PHYS 402, including time dependent and time independent perturbative techniques and applications. This course prepares students for graduate work. Offered alternate years.