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PCS 400
Quantum Physics I
Blackbody radiation. Planck quantization of the Harmonic Oscillator. Photoelectric effect. Photons. Bohr model of hydrogenic ions. Matter waves. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations. Review of complex numbers. The Schr脙露dinger Equation in one dimension. Wave functions. Stationary states. Quantization of energy. Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues. Infinite square well. Harmonic oscillator. Superposition of eigenfunctions. Schr脙露dinger equation in three dimensions. The hydrogen atom.
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
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