The University of Sheffield
Department of Physics and Astronomy

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PHY202 - Quantum Mechanics

Prof Dan Tovey

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Phone: 0114 22 23546
Room: D26

email: d.r.tovey@sheffield.ac.uk

Aims/Description

Module description

Timetable

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Examination papers

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Course material

Course description

Summary of Topic 0: Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics

Summary of Topic 1: Early Days of Quantum Physics

Summary of Topic 2: The Schrodinger Equation

Summary of Topic 3: The Infinite Potential Well

Summary of Topic 4: The Finite Potential Well

Summary of Topic 5: Operators and Eigenstates

Summary of Topic 6: Measurement

Summary of Topic 7: The Linear Harmonic Oscillator

Summary of Topic 8: Time Dependence in QM

Summary of Topic 9: Quantum Propagation

Summary of Topic 10: The Schrödinger Equation in 3 dimensions

Summary of Topic 12: First Order Time Independent Perturbation Theory (updated December 2011)

Homework 1

Homework 2

Topic content and examinable material (updated December 2011)

Tutorial questions

Tutorial Set 1

Tutorial Set 1 Answers

Tutorial Set 2

Tutorial Set 2 Answers

Tutorial Set 3

Tutorial Set 3 Answers

Problem Set 1

Problem Set 2

Lecture notes

Topic 1: Introduction to Quantum Physics

Topic 2: The Schrödinger Equation

Topic 3: The Infinite Potential Well

Topic 4: The Finite Potential Well

Topic 5: Operators and Eigenstates

Topic 6: Measurement

Topic 7: The Linear Harmonic Oscillator

Topic 8: Time Dependence in QM

Topic 9: Quantum Propagation

Topic 10: The Schrödinger Equation in 3 Dimensions

Topic 11: Puzzles and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics