Prof. Sandro Stringari

A.A. 1998/99

PROGRAMME

- thermal radiation and Planck formula

- the photoelctric effect

- The Bohr atom and the correspondence principl

- de Broglie hipothesis and Scrodinger equation

- bound states, transmission and reflection of wave packets

- perturbation method for stationary states and transition probabilities

- elements of statistical mechanics

- ensembles in quantum statistical mechanics

- Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics

- Entropy and specific heat at low temperature

- the Hilbert space formalism

- the uncertainty principle

- conservation laws

- the harmonic oscillator

- angular momentum

- The Heisenberg interaction picture for the time evolution

- scattering from a spherically symmetric potential

REFERENCE TEXTS

A. Messiah, Mechanique Quantique
L. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics