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PHYS461 — Spring 2025

PHYS461: Quantum Mechanics II (Honors) (PAST/FUTURE SEMESTER)

Offering:
Spring (starting in Spring 2010), Class 3, cr. 3.


Prerequisites:
PHYS 460. Admission by special permission.
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Description:
Angular momenta, radial equation, operators, matrices, spin, time independent perturbation theory, electron-electromagnetic field interaction, hydrogen atom, structure of atoms, molecules, radiation; selected topics in radiative transitions, collision theory, solids, nuclei, elementary particles and their symmetries.


Instructor(s):
KAUFMANN, BIRGIT


Email:
ebkaufma@purdue.edu


Textbook(s) for Spring 2025

Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher Req/Opt Notes
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics David J. Griffiths,Darrell F. Schroeter 3rd 9781107189638 Cambridge University Press Required
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics David J. Griffiths,Darrell F. Schroeter 3rd 9781107189638 Cambridge University Press Required

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