PHY567 - Spring 2000
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Professor:
S. Catterall,
309 Physics Building, 443-5978,
smc@physics.syr.edu.
I think I can safely say that
nobody understands quantum mechanics
R. Feynman
The following questions illustrate the sort of things you will learn about
in this course
- What is wave-particle duality ?
- What's all this business about Schroedinger's cat ?
- What are quantized energies and how do we go about computing them ?
- Does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle mean
that the quantum world is truly not predictable?
A tentative syllabus
Homeworks
Simple C program to find energies and wavefunctions for 1d problems
Code to be used for homework 6
Check out
these short essays on modern tests of quantum mechanics.
Also, some nice canned
quantum
mechanics Java demos.
Links to (local) Java applets
Links to Web-based Projects
This page maintained by Simon Catterall, last updated 12 January, 2000.