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.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Prereq.: MATH 39100, Math 34600 and PHYS 35100

Corequisite

Pre- or coreq: PHYS 35400 and PHYS 36100 (required for Physics majors).

Contact Hours

4 hr./wk.

Offered

Spring only