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HU Credits:
6
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Physics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Shmuel Elitzur
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Hagai Eisenberg
Mr. Tuvia Gefen
Mr. Noam Chai
Course/Module description:
The course will deal briefly with the history of quantum mechanics, the basis of the the theory (inc. formalism), and in Schrodinger's equation.
Course/Module aims:
See learning outcomes
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Solve simple spectrum and one-dimension scattering problems.
2. Make use of the formalism of quantum mechanics.
3. Solve problems of the harmonic oscillator.
Attendance requirements(%):
0
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture, recitation.
Course/Module Content:
1. Historical introduction - key experiments.
2. The mathematical foundations of QM – The state vector, Operators, representation in different bases, the Postulates, Expectation values, the uncertainty principle
3. Position and Momentum representation, Particle as a wave packet, Ehernfest theorem, Time dependant and independent Schrödinger’s equation
4. A particle in on dimension – Bound and propagating states, Scattering, Tunneling, Probability current, free falling
5. Multiple degrees of freedom – Tensor product spaces
5. Harmonic Oscillator – Eigenstates in Energy, Position and Momentum representation, Coherent states
6. The WKB approximation
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
Cohen-Tannoudji
Massiah
Griffiths
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 90 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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