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8.04 Quantum Physics I

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Prereq: 8.03 and (18.03 or 18.032)
Units: 5-0-7
Credit cannot also be received for 8.041
Lecture: MW9.30-11 (6-120) Recitation: TR10 (4-257) or TR11 (4-257) or TR1 (26-322) or TR2 (26-322) +final

Experimental basis of quantum physics: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, deBroglie waves, and wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schroedinger's equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Solutions to Schroedinger's equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, potential wells, delta functions, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schroedinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials and the hydrogen atom.  Introduction to spin-1/2.
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