Integrative teaching
Stefano Luin
Exercises
Examination procedure
Oral exam
Prerequisites
For biophysics graduate students (the first 24 hours of lectures are the same as for the class Introductory quantum physics). Prerequisites are courses in calculus based university physics.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to quantum mechanics
Waves and particles. Wave-particle duality and uncertainty principle. Wave function. Schroedinger equation and stationary states. Expectation values. Examples: potential well and harmonic oscillator. Transition probability and selection rules.
2. Atomic physics
First atomic models and their shortcomings. Hydrogen atom: energy spectrum, angular momentum and eigenfunctions. Electron spin. Pauli exclusion principle. Helium atom, singlet and triplet states. Many-electron atoms, periodic system of elements. Atomic spectroscopy.
3.Molecular physics
The ionized hydrogen molecule. The hydrogen molecule. Homonuclear and heteronuclear diatomic molecules. Polyatomic molecules. Molecular vibrations. Molecular Spectroscopy.
Bibliographical references
Alonso-Finn: “Fundamental university physics, vol. 3: quantum and statistical physics”
handouts will be provided