C. Keebaugh, E. Marshman, and C. Singh, PERC 2016 Proceedings, 184-187.
We discuss an investigation of student difficulties with degenerate perturbation theory (DPT) carried out in advanced quantum mechanics courses by administering free-response and…
G. Passante, P. Emigh, T. Wan, and P. Shaffer, PERC 2015 Proceedings, 247-250.
We have investigated the extent to which students can qualitatively determine the effect of perturbations to a Hamiltonian on the energies of the eigenfunctions. The results indicate…