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Course: Quantum Mechanics Instructor: Sukanya Sinha Room: G23 Level: Undergraduate Time: Currently offered |
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Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Historical Review: Limitations of Classical Mechanics and conflict with experiments on atomic scale, Wave Particle Duality, De Broglie’s Hypothesis, Postulates of Quantum Mechanics, Dirac Notation, Observables as Hermitian Operators on Hilbert Space, Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Expectation values, Probabilistic interpretation of outcome of measurements, Time Evolution of the State Vector, Uncertainty Principle, Schrodinger Equation and Wave Function, General Properties of one-dimensional Schrodinger equation, Stationary States, Bound States and Scattering States, Infinite and finite square well potentials, Harmonic Oscillator, Free Particle and spreading of Wave Packets, Scattering from Potential Barriers, Reflection and Transmission Coefficients, Schrodinger Equation in three dimensions, Hydrogen atom, Angular Momentum and Spin. Reference Texts: (a) Griffiths: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (b) Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics (c) R. Shankar: Principles of Quantum Mechanics Evaluation:
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