UC Davis Quantum Mechanics 115B

John Terning

Education

Higher Education

lectures on Quantum Mechanics

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Hydrogen decay, NMR

hydrogen decay, slection rules, nuclear magnetic resonance

Nov 21, 2008•55 min

Time Dependent Perturbation Theory

Time dependent perturbations and electromagnetic waves interacting with quantum states

Nov 14, 2008•52 min

Variational Method

helium and the ionized hydrogen molecule

Nov 13, 2008•39 min

Hyperfine Structure and the Stark Effect

source of the 21 cm line, hydrogen atom in an electric field

Nov 10, 2008•48 min

Fine Structure

relativistic and spin orbit corrections

Nov 07, 2008•41 min

Midterm Postmortem

midterm questions, perturbation of a 3D Harmonic Oscillator

Nov 07, 2008•41 min

Degenerate Perturbation Theory

bead on a wire, 3D harmonic oscillator

Nov 03, 2008•48 min

Perturbation Theory

Time Independent, Non-degenerate Perturbations

Oct 28, 2008•53 min

Perturbation Theory

perturbations of a 1D harmonic oscillator

Oct 27, 2008•50 min

Quantum Statistical Mechanics: Applications

Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein distributions, expansion rate of the Universe, black body spectrum, Bose condensation

Oct 22, 2008•53 min

Quantum Statistical Mechanics

white dwarfs, nuetrons stars, Quantum Statistical Mechanics for fermions and bosons

Oct 20, 2008•51 min

Fermi Surface

Helium, the periodic table, free electron Fermi Surface

Oct 17, 2008•51 min

Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients and Identical Particles

combining angular momenta, calculating Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, identical particles

Oct 15, 2008•51 min

Spin Addition

adding together the spin of two spin half particles

Oct 13, 2008•52 min

Spin one half

matrices for spin one half, Larmor precession, Stern-Gerlach

Oct 10, 2008•51 min

Angular Momentum and Spin Revisited

eigenvalues and eigenfunction of orbital angular momentum and spin review

Oct 08, 2008•51 min

Hydrogen Pt. 2 and Angular Momentum

hydrogen wavefunctions and angular momentum commutators

Oct 06, 2008•55 min

Hydrogen atom

solving the Schroedinger eq. for the hydrogen atom

Oct 03, 2008•50 min

Spherical Harmonics

spherical harmonics are found to be eigenfunctions of L^2 and L_z

Oct 01, 2008•51 min

3D Particle in a Box

3D Shroedinger equation applied to a particle in a box

Sep 29, 2008•50 min

Principles of QM Applied to Spin

Review of the postulates of quantum mechanics, discussion of the Stern-Gerlach experiment

Sep 26, 2008•52 min

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