Last updated: 18 August 2025

Course Code: PHY 3101

Course Title: Electrical Engineering Materials

Year: 3rd

Semester: 1st

Academic Year: 2024-2025

Credit: 03

All students attending the course for credit must fill the online check-in form (availabe here) with a pseudonym which will be used in posting their coursework and class test results. No coursework or class test result will be published without a pseudonym. To fill the check-in form stduents will need to log in using their instutional email.

Course Convenor

  • Dr. Mohammad Abdur Rashid
  • Room # 520
  • Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam Academic Building
  • Email: rashid@just.edu.bd

Lecture Schedule

Day Time Room Number
Sunday 10:25 - 11:15 204
Tuesday 11:20 - 12:10
Wednesday 10:25 - 11:15

Lecture Notes and Slides

  • QMLN01: The Schrödinger equation [Notes]
  • QMLN02: Time evolution of normalized wave function [Notes]
  • QMLN03: Hermitian operator [Notes]
  • QMLN04: Expectation values of operators [Notes]
  • The wave function [Slides]
  • Time evolution of wave function [Slides]
  • Infinite square-well potential [Slides]
  • Commutator of two operators [Slides]
  • Hermiticity of operators in Quantum Mechanics [Slides]
  • Potential step and potential barrier [Slides]
  • Elementary materials science concepts [Slides]

Videos on Quantum Mechanics

  • QM01: Properties of Wave Function [Video 11 min] [Slides]
  • QM02: Examples of Wave Function [Video 9.5 min] [Slides]
  • QM03: Uncertainty Principle [Video 11 min] [Slides]
  • QM04: Schrödinger Equation and Operator in Quantum Mechanics [Video 14 min] [Slides]
  • QM05: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics [Video 12.5 min] [Slides]
  • QM06: Particle in a One Dimensional Box (Infinite Square-Well Potential) [Video 15 min] [Slides]
  • QM07: Normalization of Wave Function (Particle in a Box in 1D) [Video 12 min] [Slides]
  • QM10: Time evolution of wave function [Video 10 min] [Slides]
  • QM11: Hermiticity of operators in Quantum Mechanics [Video 17 min] [Slides]
  • QM12: Examples of Hermitian operator [Video 6 min] [Slides]
  • QM13: Time dependence of expectation values [Video 7.5 min] [Slides]

Related Resources

  • Lectures on Solid State Physics: Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy) [Playlist]
  • Hall effect & Hall voltage: Dr. Rashid [Video 11.5 min] [Slides]
  • Hall Effect — Sixty Symbols [Video 6 min]
  • Single-electron model, Fermi gas, density of states: Dr. Rashid [Video 63 min] [Slides]
  • Fermi surface, Fermi energy, Fermi-Dirac distribution: Dr. Rashid [Video 74.5 min]
  • Bloch's theorem in one dimension: Dr. Rashid [Video 70.5 min] [Slides]
  • Implication of Bloch's theorem, Kronig-Penney model: Dr. Rashid [Video 47.5 min]
  • Difference between B and H in magnetism — Understand physics [Video 10 min]

Quizes/Assignment

References

  • Quantum Mechanics – Nouredine Zettili
  • Quantum Mechanics – B.H. Bransden & C.J. Joachain
  • Principles of electronic materials and devices – S. O. Kasap
  • Introduction to Solid State Physics – Charles Kittel
  • Condensed Matter Physics – Michael P. Marder
  • Superconductivity: Basics and Applications to Magnets – R.G. Sharma