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Quantum Physics I

This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics. 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 )

Instructor

Prof. Allan Adams, Prof. Matthew Evans and Prof. Barton Zwiebach.

Physics

2014

Lecture 04 - Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty

Lecture 05 - Operators and the Schrоdinger Equation

Lecture 06 - Time Evolution and the Schrodinger Equation

Lecture 07 - More on Energy Eigenstates

Lecture 08 - Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Part I

Lecture 09 - Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 10 - Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation

Lecture 11 - Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well

Lecture 12 - The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step

Lecture 13 - More on Scattering

Lecture 14 - Resonance and the S-Matrix

Lecture 15 - Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1

Lecture 16 - Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2

Lecture 17 - More on Central Potentials

Lecture 18 - Hydrogen and its Discontents

Lecture 19 - Identical Particles

Lecture 20 - Periodic Lattices Part 1

Lecture 21 - Periodic Lattices Part 2

Lecture 22 - Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors

Lecture 23 - More on Spin

Lecture 24 - Entanglement - QComputing, EPR, and Bell's Theorem