QUANTUM MECHANICS I
Physics 521 - Fall 2007

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Chapter III: The postulates

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. The postulates
  2. Physical interpretation
  3. Schrodinger equation
  4. Superposition principle
  5. Infinite potential well
  6. Probability current
  7. Root-mean-square deviations
  8. The density operator
  9. The evolution operator
  10. Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures
  11. Gauge invariance
  12. Propagator
  13. Unstable states
  14. Potential well
  15. Potential barrier
  16. Periodic potential

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