Course Code: PHY 3103
Course Title: Quantum Mechanics
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Year: 3rd Semester: 1st
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.
Prerequisites: PHY 3103 requires a good mathematical foundation. Confidence with simple derivatives, integrals, differential equations, linear algebra (eigenvalues, eigenvectors), and, especially, elementary operations of complex numbers (addition, multiplication, complex conjugate, Euler notation, etc.), are essential for success in this course. From previous experience I know your main obstacle in this class will not be QM or the teacher, but will be your background in math.
Taking your own notes in class is encouraged. Asking questions, particularly “trivial” ones, also! You can meet me in my office to discuss any issue related to the course without any hesitation. You can also email me a specific question or photographs of calculations that are causing trouble and I will do my best to help fast. However, please avoid calling over phone, especially after 04:00 pm and during the weekend.
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 | 12:20 - 13:10 | 706 |
| Monday | 09:20 - 10:10 | |
| Wednesday | 12:20 - 13:10 |
Lecture Notes
Lecture Slides
Video Lectures
- 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]
- QM08: Three Dimensional Infinite-Potential Well [Video 18.5 min] [Slides ]
- QM09: Commutator of position and momentum operators [Video 9.5 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 Materials from Web
- MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2016 [YouTube Playlist]
- Double Slit Experiment explained! by Jim Al-Khalili [Video 9 min]
- Quantum tunnel effect and tunneling microscope [Video 1.5 min]
Quizes/Assignment
References
- Quantum Mechanics – Nouredine Zettili
- Quantum Mechanics – B.H. Bransden & C.J. Joachain
- Introduction To Quantum Mechanics – David J. Griffiths