2021-2022 Academic Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
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PHY 341 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Course unit(s): 1
Prerequisite(s): PHY 213 Modern Physics  and PHY 319 Analytical Mechanics .
Origin of quantum concepts; the wave function and its interpretation; the Schrodinger equation; treatment of the free particle; potential barriers and wells; the linear harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom.  Representation of dynamical variables as operators and matrices; introduction to perturbation theory.



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