This is the homepage for the course PH3520 which I am teaching during Spring 2011 to Physics minors at IIT Madras.
Objectives: This is the second course in the Physics minor stream at IIT Madras. It introduces the students to aspects of quantum mechanics.
Assessment
| Two scheduled quizzes* | 13x2 | 26% |
|---|---|---|
| Three surprise quizzes* | 13x2 | 26% |
| Final | 48x1 | 48% |
| Total | 100% | |
*Best four out of five quizzes contribute to the grade.
Assignments
There will be several ungraded assignments that will be handed out to the student.
Did I learn anything in this course?
Notes and Handouts
A guided tour of quantum mechanics || Two lectures on Special Relativity|| A lecture on variational methods
(Animated gif generated by S. Sivaramakrishnan — click to see animation and read handout 1 to see what it means.)
Online Resources
Read chapters 2 and 3 of Jim Hefferon's free book on Linear Algebra
Prof. Balakrishnan's Resonance Article on the Dirac Delta Function;
Prof. Tan's notes on Fourier Series and Transforms;
Prof. Tan's notes on Hilbert Spaces;
Observe the Gibbs phenomenon in the Fourier Series for the square wave;