Fall
2007:
P4331 - Introduction to
quantum mechanics
University course listings
Course text: "Quantum Physics,"
3rd edition, by Stephen Gasiorowicz
Supplementary texts:
- "The Feynman Lectures on Physics",
volume III, R.P. Feynman
- "Modern Quantum Mechanics", J.J.
Sakurai
Syllabus: (tentative)
- the limits of
classical physics
- wave packets
and uncertainty relations
- the
Schroedinger equation
- eigenfunctions
and eigenvalues
- spin one
particles
- the general
structure of wave mechanics
- dirac notation
- two state
systems
- the ammonia
maser
- angular
momentum
- the hydrogen
atom
- the
independent particle approximation
- electron waves
in solids -- band structure
- scattering
from 1D potentials
- the harmonic
oscillator I
- the harmonic
oscillator II
- time
independent perturbation theory
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