Understanding Modern Physics II Quantum Mechanics and Atoms
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| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
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| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
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The Syllabus
Videos
- Introduction
- Is Light Particle or Wave?
- Photoelectric Effect
- Single Photon Double Slit Experiment
- Particle-Wave Duality
- Wave Function
- Waves and Wave Packets
- Linearity
- Plane Wave Basis
- Problem about Momentum
- Momentum Operator
- Quantum vs Classical
- Measurement on Eigenstates
- Measurement on General Discrete States
- Measurement on General Continuous States
- Uncertainty Principle
- Uncertainty Principle Saves the World
- Summary
Practice Exercise
- II - 1
Videos
- Schrodinger equation
- Stationary State Schrodinger Equation
- Step Potential
- Scattering on Step
- Tunneling
- Potential Well
- Infinite Potential Well
- Zero-Point Energy
- Double Barrier and Double Well (* optional video)
- From Periodic Potential to Computing (* optional video)
- Identical Particles
- Bosons and Fermions
- Summary
Practice Exercise
- II - 2
Videos
- How did we Know?
- Kinetic Theory of Gas (* optional video)
- Brownian Motion (* optional video)
- Atomic Spectropy
- Sub-Atomic Structure
- Bohr's Semiclassical Model
- Atom From Schrodinger (* optional video)
- Atom States and Transitions
- Periodic Table
- Summary
Practice Exercise
- II - 3
Videos
- Introduction
- Stern-Gerlach Experiment
- Understanding the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
- Remarks about spin
- Description of a Spin State
- Quantum Bits (Qubits) of Information
- Matrices
- Spin States and Measurements
- Probability to Find a Spin State
- The EPR Paradox
- The EPR State and Its Properties
- More Comments about EPR
- Bell Inequality
- Quantum Violation of Bell Inequality
- Summary
Practice Exercise
- II - 4