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INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
cod. 13490

Academic year 2009/10
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica teorica, modelli e metodi matematici (FIS/02)
Field
Teorico e dei fondamenti della fisica
Type of training activity
Characterising
32 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />The purpose of the course is to provide basic concepts of quantum mechanics, illustrated by the simplest applications.

Prerequisites

Calculus, mathematical methods for physics, classical mechanics.

Course unit content

<br />Classical physics at the end of the XIX century. Blackbody radiation. Photoelectric effect. Atomic models of Rutherford and Bohr. Wave and particle aspects of radiation and matter.<br />Wavefunction, Schrodinger equation. Axioms of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Applications (free particle, particle in a box, potential well, potential barrier, tunnel effect, harmonic oscillator). Schrodinger equation for a central potential. Hydrogen atom. Spin.

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Bibliography

<br />Alonso-Finn : Vol. III, Quantum and Statistical Physics<br />A. Messiah: Quantum mechanics

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