Course Discription
This course intends to expand students’ knowledge of modern physics and prepare them for more advanced topics such as 3-dimensional problems. It provides an introduction to the concepts and formalism of quantum mechanics, which are based on a number of postulates. It presents a formal discussion of the postulates, and how they can be used to extract quantitative information about microphysical systems. The primary emphasis is on the time-independent Schrödinger equation and its applications to simple systems such as the harmonic oscillator, the potential barrier and well, Delta-function potential, and angular momentum. The postulates of quantum mechanics will be developed in the formalism of operator observables acting on a linear state space of wave functions, in analogy with finite-dimensional matrix operations on vectors.
Course ID: PHYS 311
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 2 | 2 | PHYS 304 |
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