Physics 486 Syllabus (Spring 2014)

Course outline

1. Introduction: Planck's Radiation Law
2. Compton Scattering Diffraction
3. Matter Waves
4. Uncertainty Principle
5. Schrodinger Equation
6. Stationary States
7. 1D Potentials and Tunneling
8. Square Well Potential and Harmonic Oscillator
9. Hydrogen Atom
9. Spin and Addition of Angular Momentum
9. EPR "Paradox"
9. Multiparticle Systems
9. Identical Particles
9. Solids



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