PHYS 55100 Quantum Physics I
Introductory material: 2-slit experiment, matter waves and addition of amplitudes - superposition principle; Uncertainty principle, properties of matter waves: Boundary conditions and energy level quantization and Schrödinger interpretation - wave equation, application to one dimensional problems, barrier penetration, Bloch states in solids and how bands form in solids; The universality of the Harmonic potential - Simple Harmonic oscillator and applications; One electron atoms, spin, transition rates; Identical particles and quantum statistics; Beyond the Schrödinger equation: Variational methods and WKB.
Contact Hours
4 hr./wk.
Offered
Spring only