PHYS371

A mid-level course starts with Schrödinger's equation and waves applied to one particle in one-dimensional potential wells and ends with the hydrogen atom in three dimensions. Topics cover limits of classical physics, wave equations, phase and group velocities, Schroedinger's equation, one dimensional problems - square well, step potentials, operators and matrices, observables and measurements, the uncertainly principle, the harmonic oscillator, raising and lowering operators, two particle problems, Schroedinger's equation in three dimensions, angular momentum and the hydrogen atom. Partial differential equation and linear algebra are basic tools.

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