Prerequisites: 01:640:CALC4; 01:750:228 or 273 or permission of instructor.
Catalog description of this course:
Introductory quantum mechanics: matter waves, uncertainty principle, stationary states and operators; the Schrodinger equation and its solutions for simple potentials; the hydrogen atom, quantization of angular momentum, spin; complex atoms and molecules.
Primary Text book:
"Quantum Mechanics" by Bruce Cameron Reed (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Copyright 2008)
Additional reading material:
I will use selected material from "Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles" by R. Eisberg and R. Resnick (John Wiley and Sons, 2nd Edition). If you wish to purchase only the selected material (Chapters 8-10) that I will use from this secondary textbook please go HERE.
I placed copies of both of these textbooks on reserve in the SERC Reading Room.
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