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| Semester: | Fall 2020 |
| Number: | 0156-428-001 |
| Instructor: | Sean Bentley |
| Days: | Monday 2:25 pm - 4:10 pm |
| Note: | Hybrid Online/In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise 108 |
| Credits: | 4 |
| Notes: |
Classroom Is Only Needed For One Day A Week For In-Person Meeting. |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Ideas leading to quantum mechanics; Schrodinger's equation in time-independent and time-dependent forms. One- and three-dimensional solutions of bound-state eigen value problems; scattering states; barrier penetration; the hydrogen atom; perturbation theory. Quantum mechanical description of identical particles, symmetry principles, multi-electron systems. |
| Learning Goals: |
COURSE LEARNING GOALS*: (*Note: Section copied from Professor Steven Pollock, University of Colorado)• Math/physics connection: Students should be able to translate a physical description of a junior-level quantum mechanics problem into the mathematical equation necessary to solve it. Students should be able to explain the physical meaning of the formal and/or mathematical formulation of and/or solution to a junior-level quantum mechanics problem. Students should be able to achieve physical insight through the mathematics of a problem.• Visualization: Students should be able to sketch the physical parameters of a problem (e.g., wave function, potential, probability distribution), as appropriate for a particular problem. When presented with a graph of a wave function or probability density, students should be able to derive appropriate physical parameters of a system.• Knowledge Organization: Students should be able to articulate the big ideas from each content area, and/or lecture, thus indicating that they have organized their content knowledge. They should be able to filter this knowledge to access the information that they need to apply to a particular physical problem. This organizational process should build on knowledge gained in earlier physics classes.• Communication: Students should be able to justify and explain their thinking and/or approach to a problem or physical situation, in either written or oral form.• Problem-solving Techniques: When faced with a quantum mechanics problem, students should be able to choose and apply appropriate problem solving techniques. They should be able to transfer the techniques learned in class and through homework to novel contexts (i.e., to solve problems which do not map directly to those in the book). They should be able to justify their selected approach (see “Communication" above). In addition to building on techniques learned in previous courses (e.g., recognizing boundary conditions, setting up and solving differential equations, separation of variables, power-series solutions, operator methods), students are expected to develop specific new techniques as listed in concept-scale learning goals below.o Approximations: Students should be able to recognize when approximations are useful, and to use them effectively (e.g., when the energy is very high, or barrier width very wide). Students should be able to indicate how many terms of a series solution must be retained to obtain a solution of a give *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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