- Timetable:
- Monday and Tuesday — 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM — Room: Google Classroom
- Office hours will be communicated soon, via email.
- Course Outline: The outline can be downloaded from here.
- Another Note: Solutions of in-class quizzes and homeworks are not made public. If interested, instructors can ask for solutions by sending an email from their institutional email address.
- Lecture 1: Blackbody Radiation-I
- Kirchhoff’s Law
- Stefan’s Law
- Wien’s Displacement Law
- Wien’s Exponential Law
- Spectral Energy Density of a Blackbody
- Planck’s Formula of Spectral Energy Distribution
- The Quantum of Energy
- Whiteboard Slides
- Lecture 2: Blackbody Radiation-II
- Recap of lecture 1
- Rayleigh–Jeans Law
- Ultraviolet Catastrophe
- Planck’s Blackbody Law
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 3: Photoelectric Effect
- Brief History
- Experimental Setup and Results
- Classical Interpretation
- Einstein’s Idea
- Quantum Interpretation
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Homework 1 (Due Date: October 20, 2020)
- Lecture 4: X-Ray Production and Compton Scattering
- X-Ray Production
- Bremsstrahlung Process
- Inverse Photoelectric Effect
- Thomson Scattering
- Compton Scattering
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Homework 2 (Due Date: October 27, 2020)
- Quiz 1
- Lecture 5: Bohr’s Atomic Model
- The Classical Atomic Model
- Failure of Thomson’s Planetary Model
- The Bohr Model of Hydrogen Atom
- Bohr’s General Assumptions
- Derivation of Rydberg Equation using Bohr’s Assumptions
- Absorption and Emission Spectrum
- Electron’s Velocity in Bohr’s Model
- Bohr’s Correspondence Principle
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts (This also includes the first three topics of Lecture 6.)
- Lecture 6: Corrections in Bohr’s Model, Franck Hertz Experiment
- Reduced Mass Correction in Bohr’s Model
- Bohr Model for Hydrogen-like elements
- Problem of Fine Structure and Bohr’s Model
- Franck-Hertz Experiment
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts (First three topics of this lecture are included in the handouts of Lecture 5.)
- Quiz 2
- Homework 3 (Due Date: November 3, 2020)
- Lecture 7: Matter Waves-I
- Pilot Waves of de-Broglie
- de-Broglie’s Explanation of Quantization of in Bohr’s Model
- The Davisson-Germer Experiment
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 8: Matter Waves-II
- Localization of Waves in Space
- Principle of Superposition
- Pulses / Wave Groups / Wave Packets
- Uncertainty Relations / Reciprocity Relations
- Phase Velocity
- Group Velocity
- Matter Wave Packets
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Quiz 3
- Homework 4 (Due Date: November 10, 2020)
- Lecture 9: Fourier Integrals
- Why do we need Fourier integrals to discuss wave packets?
- Fourier Integrals/Transformation
- True Localization of Waves in Space
- True Localization of Waves in Time
- Quiz 4
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 10: Waves or Particles?
- Double Slit Experiment with Photons
- Double Slit Experiment with Electrons
- Bohr’s Complementarity Principle
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 11: Wavefunctions
- What are wavefunctions?
- Algebra of Complex Numbers
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 12: Born’s Interpretation
- Born’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Physically Acceptable Wavefunctions
- Quiz 5
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Scripts of the Sketch of Serway’s Example 6.1: MATLAB, Python, Output
- Homework 5 (Due Date: November 24, 2020)
- Exam Week
- Lecture 13: Uncertainties in Quantum Mechanics and Momentum Operator
- How to define uncertainties?
- How do we characterize uncertainty?
- Momentum Operator in Position Basis
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 14: Operators and Schrodinger Equation
- Operators and Observables
- Eigenfunctions, Eigenvalues and Eigenvalue Equation (Eigenequation)
- Importance of Order in Operator Multiplication
- Time-Dependent Schrodinger Wave Equation
- Whiteboard Slides
- Handouts
- Lecture 15: Schrodinger Wave Equation
- Time-Independent Schrodinger Wave Equation
- Whiteboard Slides
- Lecture Notes
- Lecture 16: Properties of the Time Independent Schrodinger Wave Equation
- Stationary States
- Definite Energies
- Whiteboard Slides
- Lecture Notes
- Lecture 17: Time Evolution of Expectation Value
- Time Evolution of Expectation Value
- Whiteboard Slides
- Lecture Notes
- Lecture 18: Ehrenfest Theorem