Kursplanen

Textbook: Inledande Kvantmekanik by Silverberg, Gislén & Bengtsson.
Suggested: Schaum's outlines - Quantum Mechanics by Peleg, Pnini & Zaarur

Kursansvarig: Pieter Kuiper
Vid frågor: e-mail Pieter.Kuiper@msi.vxu.se , tel. 0470-708108.

Schedule:

• Mo Aug 29: registration; interpretation: waves, particles, duality, complementarity; Feynman
• Tu Aug 30: waves, Schrödinger equation; probability
• Th Sep 1: Exercises: math of waves, derivatives, complex numbers, Fourier, with sound, Group velocity.
• Mo Sep 5: Ehrenfest equations; time-independent S.E.
• Tu Sep 6: Particle in a box, 2D-box (animations), time evolution
• week 37: operators
• week 38: harmonic oscillator: Hyperphysics, Wikipedia; Falstad 2D, Thaller 2D och 1D, Glauber states; creation operator;
  Schrödinger equation in polar coordinates.
• week 39: angular momentum; spherical harmonics; spin
  
• week 40: hydrogen atom - Atom in Box

Links with interactive exercises:

• Java applets (France)
• Many applets (Paul Falstad)
• 1D-Scattering (Silicon Graphics)
• ShockWave (Betha, Ohio)

Links with animations:

• Computer simulations (Groningen, Netherlands)
• Visual Quantum Mechanics (Thaller, Graz)
• Model Systems (Dan Thomas)
• Bohmian mechanics (Insbruck)
• Transistions between atomic orbitals (2D-cuts here)
• Wave Packet Animations (Stroud, Rochester)
• Atom in Box (Macintosh)

Links to sites with lecture notes, problems, etc

• Niels Walet (Manchester)
• MIT
• Scott Pratt (textbook Sakurai - D-course)

Exam

Week 44.