PH1410H: ntroductory Quantum Mechanics (2-1-0-3)

Experimental Basis of Quantum Mechanics: Double slit experiment and Stern-Gerlach experiment (basic ideas); De Broglie's hypothesis (matter wave dual nature); Wave-particle duality; Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Wave function and wave packets; Position and momentum operators, Uncertainty principle, Commutators; Schrödinger equation, Probabilities, probability current densities, wave function normalization; Expectation values, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Applications of Schrödinger Equation: Infinite potential well, energy quantization; Finite square well, potential step and potential barrier, quantum tunnelling; Harmonic Oscillator, energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions..

Texts:

1. R. Eisberg and R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles, 2nd Ed. Wiley, 2006.
2. David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition, 2018.