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Physics 385 - Quantum Physics is a third year course for science students at Simon Fraser University. The course assumes that the student has completed a 6-7 week introduction to quantum concepts at the second year level, and is currently enrolled in a first course on differential equations. This page contains links to lecture notes prepared for summer, 2003, by Dave Boal. The lectures are stored as PDF files and can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader (click to download a free copy from Adobe). Canadian spelling conventions are used.
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Copies of old exams are available for the following years.
The exams are stored in PDF format.
2003
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Probabilistic motion
Lecture 3 - Fourier transforms
Lecture 4 - Wavepackets
Lecture 5 - Free-particle Schrodinger equation (1D)
Lecture 6 - Probability current
Lecture 7 - Momentum operator
Lecture 8 - Schrodinger equation with interactions
Lecture 9 - Time-independent Schrodinger equation
Lecture 10 - Potential wells in one dimension
Lecture 11 - Bound states of a square well
Lecture 12 - 1D tunneling
Lecture 13 - 1D harmonic oscillator
Lecture 14 - Vibrating systems
Lecture 15 - Classical limit
Lecture 16 - Many-particle systems
Lecture 17 - Particle in a 3D box
Lecture 18 - Degenerate matter
Lecture 19 - Degenerate stars
Lecture 20 - Schrodinger equation in 3D
Lecture 21 - Spherical harmonics - I
Lecture 22 - Spherical harmonics - II
Lecture 23 - Angular momentum
Lecture 24 - Hydrogen atom - I
Lecture 25 - Hydrogen atom - II
Lecture 26 - Intrinsic spin
Lecture 27 - Poly-electron atoms
Lecture 28 - Addition of angular momentum
Lecture 29 - Perturbation theory
Lecture 30 - Atoms and electromagnetic fields
Lecture 31 - Rotational motion
Lecture 32 - Molecules - I
Lecture 33 - Molecules - II
Lecture 34 - Molecules - III
Appendix A - Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
