
Lecture Description
The various postulates of quantum mechanics treated in previous lectures are reviewed and summarized. The uncertainty principle is again discussed and a new one between energy and time is introduced. The quantum mechanical behavior of an electron in a hydrogen atom is described. The principles of quantum mechanics are then generalized to describe two or more quantum particles. It is shown that identical particles have to be bosons or fermions, the latter obeying the Pauli exclusion principle, which in turn is key to explaining the periodic table.
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