PHYS 3316 - Basics of Quantum Mechanics

(PBS)

Fall, spring. 3 credits.

Prerequisites: PHYS 2214 or PHYS 2218; PHYS 1116 or PHYS 2216; and coregistration in at least MATH 2940 or equivalent. Assumes that majors registering in PHYS 3316 will continue with PHYS 3317.

D. Ralph (fall) and M. Liepe (spring).

Topics include breakdown of classical concepts in microphysics; light quanta and matter waves; Schrödinger equation and solutions for square well, harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom; wave packets, scattering and tunneling effects, angular momentum, spin, and magnetic moments. At the level of An Introduction to Quantum Physics by French and Taylor and Introduction to Quantum Physics by Griffiths.