Physics 460 Quantum Mechanics I

Selected Lecture Notes
(All notes are scanned as .pdf documents)

0.)  Course Outline (Tentative) (~0.26MB)
1.)  Introduction (~0.28MB)
2.)  Schroedinger Wave Mechanics: Postulates (~0.21MB)
3.)  Discussion of Postulates (~0.62MB)
4.)  Wave Mechanics: Consequences of Postulates (~4.4MB)
5.)  Examples in One Dimension: Infinite Potential Well (~0.9MB)
6.)  Examples in One Dimension: SHO (~3.1MB)
7.)  Examples in One Dimension: Scattering and Bound States: The Dirac Delta Function(~1.2MB)
8.)  Examples in One Dimension: Finite Square Well (~1.3MB)
9.)  Examples in One Dimension: Potential Barrier-Quantum Tunneling (~0.5MB)
10.) Three Dimensions: Central Potentials (~0.8MB)
11.) Central Potentials: Spherical Polar Coordinates & Radial Equation (~1.7MB)
12.) Central Potentials: Hydrogen Atom (~1.5MB)
13.) Central Potentials: Orbital Angular Momentum (~1.2MB)
14.) Abstract Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert Space (~1.4MB)
15.) Abstract Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Dirac Notation (~2.3MB)
16.) Abstract Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Operators and Eigenvalues (~2.4MB)
17.) Abstract Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: The Postulates (~0.3MB)
18.) Position, Momentum and Energy Representations (~2.6MB)
19.) Consequences of Postulates Revisited (~1.2MB)
20.) Simple Harmonic Oscillator Revisited (~2.7MB)