Exam feedback from Physics lecturers

Semester 1 2010-11
Unit name and number: PH30030
Lecturer: PSS
Questions marked on exam paper: All
Report:
All of the questions were, in general, answered well. Some specific points, occurring
in several examination scripts, are as follows.
Q1. Several people did not know the definition of a Hermitian operator. When
making the integral by parts, it is important to consider the limiting behaviour of the
functions when assuming that they are well behaved.
Q2. If p x i d dx and Tx p x2 2m then Tx (

2m) d 2 dx 2 i.e i 2 1 .

Q3. Use the time independent Schrdinger equation and dont assume that the energy
eigenvalue is zero.
Q5. The wavefunction is, in general, complex.
expression cnn .

Likewise the coefficients in the

Q6. Several people did not know the eigenvalues corresponding to the operators L z
and L2 .
Q7. The integral of an odd function between - and + is zero.