Course Identification

Title:

Quantum Mechanics 1

Code:

20162061

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Ed Narevicius

TA's:

Natan Bibelnik

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2016

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Wednesday, 09:15 - 11:00, FGS, Rm C

Tutorials
Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00, FGS, Rm B

First Lecture:

28/10/2015

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Core; 3.00 points

Comments

(1) The courses that are attended by less than 4 students will be cancelled
(2) Cluster - Chemical Physics

Prerequisites

Basic Topics or equivalent

Restrictions

Participants:

No

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

Registration By:15/11/2015

Attendance and participation

N/A

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

25%

Final:

75%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

18/02/2016

Location

San Martin, seminar room

Time

0900-1200

Remarks

N/A

Scheduled date 2

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

N/A

Syllabus

[1] Selected failures of classical physics
[2] The Schroedinger equation
[3] One-dimensional problems
[4] Formal postulates of quantum mechanics
[5] Physical interpretation of the postulates
[6] The quantum harmonic oscillator
[7] Angular momentum in quantum mechanics
[8] Spherically central potentials
[9] The hydrogen atom
[10] Spin
[11] Perturbation theory
[12] The variational principle
[13] Identical particles

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

[1] Describe and discuss fundamental theories of Quantum Mechanics.

[2] Apply fundamental theories of Quantum Mechanics to simple problems of general interest.

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A