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Wave functions and uncertainty principle: wave-particle duality, interpretation of the wave function, wave packets, Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Schrodinger’s equation: time-dependent Schrodinger’s equation, conservation of probability, expectation values and operators, time independent Schrodinger’s equation, energy quantization, properties of energy eigenfunctions. One dimensional examples. Formal quantum mechanics: Dirac notation, dynamical variables and operators, commuting observables. Angular momentum. Schrodinger’s equation in three dimensions. The hydrogen atom. |