News:
General Information:
Lecturer:
Reza
Sarvari (office EE210) 
Classes:
Saturday-Monday 13:30-15:00 ;
Classroom ?
Texts:
Miller, Quantum Mechanics For Scientists
and Engineers, Cambridge, 2008
 Khurasani, Applied Quantum Mechanics(in
Persian), Delarang, 2010
Levi, Applied Quantum Mechanics,
Cambridge, 2006
Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics,
Addison-Wesley, 2010 .
Supplemental:
Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics,
Pearson, 2009
Griffiths, Consistent Quantum Theory, Cambridge, 2006 (free to
download)
van Dommelen, Quantum Mechanics for Engineers,
Online Book
Dr. Karimipour's
Lecture notes in Farsi
Syllabus:
Grades(tentative): 20%
Homeworks
40% 2 Mid-terms
40% Final Exam
Homeworks/Exams
and solutions:
 homework
1 ; solution 1
Lectures:
Introduction and Background:
- History of Quantum Mechanics (Black body radiation,
Photoelectric, Bohr model)
- Applications of quantum mechanics
- Some experiments (diffraction by two slits)
Schrodinger’s equation:
- Wave function and probability density
- Linearity and normalization of wavefunction
- Particle in box (infinite & finite Q well)
- Potential barrier and Tunneling
- Harmonic oscillator
- Particle in a linearly varying potential
Time-dependent Schrodinger
equation:
- Time-dependent Schrodinger equation
- Solutions of the TD Schrodinger equation
- Time dependence and expansion in the energy
eigenstates
- Time evolution of wavepackets (infinite potential
well & harmonic oscillator)
- QM measurement and expectation values
- Hamiltonian
- Operators and expectation values
- Uncertainty principle
Functions and operators:
- Functions as vectors
- Operators, Linear operators
- Hermitian operators
- Matrix form of operators
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Same/Ralated
Courses at
Other Schools!
- MIT, Physics (
 QMech I, QMech II, QMech III, QTheory I, QTheory
II), Electrical ( Applied Quantum and Statistical Physics,
Quantum Electronics),
Chemistry ( QMech I, QMech II), Quantum Computation
- UCBerkeley, QM1, QM2, ( Quantum Computation),
- UCSD Physics Stream,
including Quantum Mechanics
- Boston University, QM1, QM2,
- University of Tennessee, QM1, QM2,
- Florida State University, Quantum Mechanics A, Quantum Mechanics B,
- RPI
- Arizona State U
- University of Calgary, Physical Chemistry:QM and Symmetry
- Virginia
- Macquarie University, QM1, QM2,
- Johns Hopkins
- University of Hong Kong
- IIT Madras, Video Lectures
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- University of Manchester Vector spaces for Quantum Mechanics
- Polytechnic Institute of NY, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
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