60 credits including Transform methods, Applied mechanics I/Mechanics II and Electromagnetism I. Participation in Waves and optics and Mathematical methods of physics.
The experimental background of quantum physics, particles and atomic models, the photon, the photoelectric effect, and the spectrum of hydrogen-like atoms. An overview of special relativity. Spectrum. The correspondence principle. Wave-particle duality, probabilities, wave functions, the Schrödinger equation, wave packets. Expectation values, operators, uncertainty relations. Dirac formalism. One-dimensional systems, stationary states, the infinite square well, the harmonic oscillator, transmission, tunnelling and reflection. Three-dimensional systems, the hydrogen atom and one-electron atoms, angular momentum and central motion, transitions, energy level diagrams, and time-independent perturbation theory. Many-electron atoms, spin, the addition of angular momentum, identical particles, fermions and bosons, the Pauli principle, electron configurations, the Zeeman effect, spin-orbit coupling, the central field approximation, fine structure, the periodic system, optical transitions and X-rays, spectroscopy. Briefly about diatomic molecules: bonding, vibrational and rotational motions, transitions. The importance of quantum physics for engineering applications.
