41701 - Quantum Mechanics (1)

Academic Year 2007/2008

  • 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