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Quantum Physics I (Spring 2013, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Allan Adams, Prof. Matthew Evans, and Prof. Barton Zwiebach. This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics
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Topics include: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, de Broglie waves, and the wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schrodinger's equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and zero-point energies. Solutions to Schrodinger's equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, barrier penetration, potential wells, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schrodinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials and introduction to hydrogenic systems. (from ocw.mit.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction to Superposition Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Experimental Facts of Life Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – The Wave Function Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Operators and the Schrоdinger Equation Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Time Evolution and the Schrodinger Equation Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – More on Energy Eigenstates Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Part I Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – More on Scattering Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – Resonance and the S-Matrix Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1 Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2 Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – More on Central Potentials Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Hydrogen and its Discontents Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – Identical Particles Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Periodic Lattices Part 1 Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Periodic Lattices Part 2 Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – More on Spin Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – Entanglement – QComputing, EPR, and Bell’s Theorem Unlimited
