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Time dependent Schrodinger equation for one spatial dimension. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Prof. Robert Field
5.73
Fall 2002
Graduate
5.73 covers fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics: wave properties, uncertainty principles, Schrodinger equation, and operator and matrix methods. Basic applications of the following are discussed: one-dimensional potentials (harmonic oscillator), three-dimensional centrosymetric potentials (hydrogen atom), and angular momentum and spin. The course also examines approximation methods: WKB method, variational principle, and perturbation theory.
The instructor would like to acknowledge Peter Giunta for preparing the original version of the materials for 5.73.
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