Quantum Physics

(PH21206, PH21212)

Spring 2022-23

About the Course

In this course, we shall discuss some of the basic and fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics, which is expected to be beneficial to students with diverse interests and background. Second year undergraduate students will be the primary target audience. This course has no pre-requisites, but a familiarity with elementary classical mechanics would be helpful. The suggested syllabus of this course can be found here. The contact details of the instructors can be found here.

Suggested References

• Claude Cohen–Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Frank Laloë (Vol-1)
• R. Shankar
• D. J. Griffiths, D. F. Schroeter
• Feynman Lectures (Vol-3)
• L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz (Vol-3)
• S. Flugge
• H. Nastase
• Lecture notes by David Tong

Lecturenotes:

• Lecture-notes-1: Basic introduction, Infinite square-well problem, Free particle.

• Lecture-notes-2: Mathematical tools for quantum mechanics.

• Lecture-notes-3: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics.

• Lecture-notes-4: Scattering states and bound states of 1D potentials. The 1D Quantum Harmonic Oscillator.

• Lecture-notes-5: 3D quantum mechanical systems. Angular momentum.

Problem Sets

• Problem-set-1 (Solutions).

• Problem-set-2 (Solutions).

• Problem-set-3 (Solutions).

• Problem-set-4 (Solutions).

• Problem-set-5 (Solutions).

• Problem-set-6 .

Assignments

• Assignment-1 (Solutions).

• Compensatory Assignment-1 (Solutions).

• Assignment-2 (Solutions).

Question Papers

• Mid-sem (Solutions).

Supplementary material

• Double slit experiment with the electron : video.

• Several web-based resourses can be found on Daniel Schroeder's QM-course webpage.

• Fourier Series Demonstration: Mathematica file (PDF).

Announcements

End-sem exam of students registered for PH21206 will be held in the physics department, while for those who registred for PH21212 will have their exam conducted centrally at Nalanda.