QUANTUM MECHANICS CHI 0026 (MAMASELF Master) 2016-2017
revision of necessary material (complex numbers, waves, Maxwell's equations, light)
Mechanics-some famous experiments, wave-particle duality
Some probability theory
Postulates and examples
The Schrodinger equation
Observables, eigenfunctions, eigenvalues, degeneracy
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Atoms, wave packets
Potential wells, the SHO (simple harmonic oscillator), H atom, scattering problems,
quantum tunnelling, many examples
Conservation laws, AM and spin, some perturbation theory
CG coefficients and some simple atomic spin states.
TEXTS Schiff, Schaum, Messiah, almost any elementary QM text. Lots of free material on
the internet. I will email you a lot of material.
LECTURES start October 4th 2016.
Tuesdays 4-6pm aula Avogadro (floor 3),
Thursdays 4-6pm aula G (floor -1),
Fridays
3-5pm, aula D (floor -1),
at the Physics Dept, via Pietro Giuria 1,
till about the end of November.
EXAMS Written, with some choice, in January and February 2017.
Profssa Jeanette E. Nelson
Dip. Fisica Sezione Teorica
Universita` Torino
via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino
WEB:http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~nelson/
EMAIL (preferred): nelson@to.infn.it
tel 011-670-7207, fax 011-670-7214