QUANTUM MECHANICS I
Physics 521 - Fall 2007

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Chapter I: Waves and particles

TEXTBOOK: Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 1, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, et al., Wiley-VCH.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Electromagnetic waves and photons
  2. Particles and matter waves
  3. Wave packets
  4. Particle in a potential
  5. Order of magnitude of wavelengths
  6. Uncertainty
  7. Two and three dimensions
  8. Gaussian wave packet
  9. Square potential
  10. Potential step

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