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Lecture Notes

This section contains documents created from scanned original files, which are inaccessible to screen reader software. A "#" symbol is used to denote such documents.

The lecture notes are being typed by Morris Green, an MIT student, from Prof. Vuletic's handwritten notes. Additional updates will be made as more typed files become available.


LEC #TOPICS
1Overview, scale of quantum mechanics, boundary between classical and quantum phenomena (PDF)
2Planck's constant, interference, Fermat's principle of least time, deBroglie wavelength (PDF)
3Double slit experiment with electrons and photons, wave particle duality, Heisenberg uncertainty (PDF)
4Wavefunctions and wavepackets, probability and probability amplitude, probability density (PDF)
5Thomson atom, Rutherford scattering (PDF)
6Photoelectric effect, X-rays, Compton scattering, Franck Hertz experiment (PDF)
7Bohr model, hydrogen spectral lines (PDF)
8Bohr correspondence principle, shortcomings of Bohr model, Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization rules (PDF)
9Schrödinger equation in one dimension, infinite 1D well (PDF)#
10Eigenfunctions as basis, interpretation of expansion coefficients, measurement (PDF)
11Operators and expectation values, time evolution of eigenstates, classical limit, Ehrenfest's theorem (PDF)
12Eigenfunctions of p and x, Dirac delta function, Fourier transform (PDF)
13Wavefunctions and operators in position and momentum space, commutators and uncertainty (PDF)
14Motion of wavepackets, group velocity and stationary phase, 1D scattering off potential step (PDF)
15Boundary conditions, 1D problems: finite square well, delta function potential (PDF)
16More 1D problems, tunneling (PDF)
17Harmonic oscillator: series method (PDF)
18Harmonic oscillator: operator method, Dirac notation (PDF)
19Schrödinger equation in 3D: cartesian, spherical coordinates (PDF)
20Angular momentum, simultaneous eigenfunctions (PDF)
21Spherical harmonics (PDF)
22Hydrogen atom: radial equation (PDF)
23Hydrogen atom: 3D eigenfunctions and spectrum (PDF)
24Entanglement, Einstein-Podolsky Rosen paradox (PDF)

 








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