This unit covers (1) quantum mechanics—operators, matrix mechanics and Dirac formalism, uncertainty relations, measurement theory, spin one-half particles and two-state systems, conservation and symmetry, angular momentum and addition rules, periodic potentials, many particle wave functions; and (2) atomic physics—Schroedinger equation in three dimensions and the hydrogen atom, time-independent perturbation theory, spin orbit coupling and relativistic effects in the real hydrogen atom, atoms and molecules. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Jingbo Wang
Prerequisites: PHYS2001 Quantum Mechanics 1 and Electromagnetism and PHYS2002 The Physics of Particles