Introductory Quantum Mechanics
Online
8 WeeksQuick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | IIT Kanpur |
The Syllabus
- Black-body radiation and its spectral energy density
- Black body as a cavity, energy density inside a cavity, radiation pressure
- Stefan-Boltzmann law
- Wien’s displacement law
- Wien’s formula for spectral density
- Relation between energy density and average oscillator energy
- Quantum hypothesis for oscillators and resulting spectral density
- More on quantizitaion concept – specific heat of insulators
- Photoelectric effect
- Spectrum of hydrogen atom and Bohr model
- Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization condition and application to particle in a box and harmonic oscillator
- Application of Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization conditions to atoms-I
- The correspondence principle and selection rules
- Introduction to waves and wave equation
- Equivalence of Heisenberg and Schrödinger formulation-I
- Examples of solution of one-dimensional Schrödinger equation – Particle in one and two delta function potentials
- Solution of Schrödinger equation for free particles and periodic boundary conditions
- Numerical solution for the radial component of wavefunction for spherically symmetric potentials