PHYS311-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Quantum Mechanics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Development of quantum mechanics from basic postulates, using operator techniques, with application of the formalism to a variety of systems; time-independent perturbation theory.

Prerequisites

(1) PHYS203 or (PHYS206 and CHEM251); (2) MATH103 or EMTH119 or MATH201. RP: MATH201 and MATH203

Recommended Preparation

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Exam 60%
Homework Assignments 25% 5 @ 5% - Homework Assignments (5 @ 5%). The homework assignments will be distributed fortnightly and will due approximately two weeks later.
Mid Semester Test 15%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Griffiths, David J; Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ; 2nd ed; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.

J. J. Sakurai; Modern Quantum Mechanics ; Addison-Wesley.

Recommended Reading

Arno Bohm; Quantum Mechanics: Foundations & Applications ; Springer-Verlag, 1986.

J. S. Bell; Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics ; Cambridge University Press.

P. A. M. Dirac; The Principles of Quantum Mechanics ; 4th; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1958.

Additional Course Outline Information

Academic integrity

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $978.00

International fee $4,988.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

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