Lecture Description
The allowed energy states of a free particle on a ring and a particle in a box are revisited. A scattering problem is studied to expose more quantum wonders: a particle can tunnel into the classically forbidden regions where kinetic energy is negative, and a particle incident on a barrier with enough kinetic energy to go over it has a nonzero probability to bounce back.
Course Index
- Electrostatics
- Electric Fields
- Gauss's Law I
- Gauss's Law and Application to Conductors and Insulators
- The Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy
- Capacitors
- Resistance
- Circuits and Magnetism I
- Magnetism II
- Ampere's Law
- Lenz's and Faraday's Laws
- LCR Circuits: DC Voltage
- LCR Circuits: AC Voltage
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves I
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves II
- Ray or Geometrical Optics I
- Ray or Geometrical Optics II
- Wave Theory of Light
- Quantum Mechanics I: Key experiments and wave-particle duality
- Quantum Mechanics II
- Quantum Mechanics III
- Quantum Mechanics IV: Measurement theory, states of definite energy
- Quantum Mechanics V: Particle in a box
- Quantum Mechanics VI: Time-dependent Schrodinger Equation
- Quantum Mechanics VII: Summary of postulates and special topics
Course Description
This is a continuation of Fundamentals of Physics, I (PHYS 200), the introductory course on the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics. This course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics.
Course Structure:
75 minute lectures, twice per week
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