- Docente: Giovanni Venturi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0342)
Learning outcomes
Scope of the course is to introduce the student to Quantum Mechanics and some of its most elementary applications beginning with the limits of Classical Mechanics
Course contents
The limits of Classical Physics; wave packets and the uncertainty relations; the Schroedinger wave equation; eigenfunctions and eigenvalues; one-dimensional potentials; the general structure of wave mechanics; operator methods in Quantum Mechanics; N-particle systems; the Schroedinger equation in three dimensions; angular momentum; the radial equation; the hydrogen atom; operators matrices and spin; the addition of angular momenta; variational method; time independent perturbation theory.
Readings/Bibliography
Quantum Physics, S.Gasiorowicz, Wiley Ed.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written and oral exams
Teaching tools
Overhead projector
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Venturi