PHYS 302

This course is the first part of a two-semester course in quantum mechanics. Topics include quantum phenomena, the wave function and the Schrödinger equation, physical quantities and measurements, quantization of energy in simple systems, principles of quantum mechanics, commutation of observables, the Stern-Gerlach experiment, angular momentum, description of atoms, spin-1/2 and magnetic resonance, addition of angular momenta, and identical particles.