course guideline - Bayram

PHYS 300 QUANTUM PHYSICS
Course Syllabus, Spring 2013-2014
Lecturer: Bayram Tekin [email protected] 210-4340, Office :331
Lecture room and hours: P-6, Tuesday
12:40-14:30;
P-6, Wednesday 12:40-13:30
Reference Book:
Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition by Richard L. Liboff
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Historical Review of Quantum Mechanics
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics. Operators, Eigenfunctions
Function Spaces, Hilbert spaces and Hermitian operators
Superposition principle and compatible observables
Time development and conservation theorems in quantum mechanics
One dimensional problems: bound and unbound states
Grading: There will be two midterms (50 %) and a Final (%35) plus 3 or 4 home work sets (15 %
in total). You have to do the home works on your own. I will post the home works on my webpage.