Quantum Mechanics - I

Instructor: Dr. K. Narayan
Text books followed were:
  1. Perspectives of Modern Physics by A.Beiser( we did the basics like Photoelectric Effect and Bohr Model)
  2. Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. Sakurai (we did the basic mathematical framework. Mainly this book was followed)
  3. Quantum Mechanics by Cohen-Tanoudji (In the later stage, the harmonic oscillator and polynimial method for solving the Scrodinger's Eqn. was done from this book)
  4. Quantum Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol.3) by Landau & Lifschitz (Potential Wells were discussed)
  5. Quantum Mechanics by Schiff
Two other classic books which can be read as leisure time reading are:
1)Dirac's monograph (here he introduced his famous Dirac notation which we follow in modern Quantum Mechanics)
2)Feynmann Lectures (Vol. 3)


Course outline: Aspects of modern physics -- blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, de Broglie waves, interference experiments, Bohr atomic model. Quantum mechanics -- Stern-Gerlach experiments, double slit experiments, interference of amplitudes, Dirac kets/bras/operators, matrix representations, uncertainty relations, position/momentum operators, time evolution and the Schrodinger equation, Schrodinger/Heisenberg pictures, harmonic oscillator (creation-annihilation operators etc), position space representations and Schrodinger's equation, potential wells (reflection/transmission, tunnelling), the harmonic oscillator and Hermite polynomials, angular momentum.


The course was graded as follows:
a) Mid-sem ---- 35%
b) Quiz ---- 15%
c) End-sem ---- 50%


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