PHY1520H F GENERAL
Quantum Mechanics
Official description
- Kets, Bras, and Operators; basis sets, Change of Basis and Matrix Representations
- Measurements, Observables, and the Uncertainty Relations
- Continuous systems: Position, Momentum, and Translation
- Density Operators and Pure Versus Mixed Ensembles; entropy
- Time Evolution: Schrodinger Equation; Heisenberg Picture; master equation
- Schrodinger's Wave Equation; free particles; bound states; examples (square well, HO)
- Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics
- Spherical symmetry and the Hydrogen Atom
- Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and Degeneracies
- Time-Independent Perturbation Theory; fine structure of Hydrogen; scattering
- Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory: The Interaction Picture; Fermi’s golden rule
- Multi-Particle states; Permutation Symmetry & Pauli Principle
- Textbook
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J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics (3rd Edition)
Additional information
Grading: 5 problem sets worth 10% each; 1 final exam worth 50%
- course title
- PHY1520H F GENERAL
- session
- fall
- group
- general course
- time and location
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Lecture: Tue and Thu, 1 pm, MP 1115
- instructor
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