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| FIZ5040 | Quantum Mechanics - I | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of PHYSICS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Asst. Prof. Dr. Coşkun Aydın | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Students who successfully complete this course should be able to solve practical problems for quantum mechanical systems using a variety of approximation methods and angular momentum theory. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | gain experience for using angular momentum in details. | 1,3 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | Understand the approximation methods, such as the perturbation theory, the variational method, and the WKB method. | 1,3 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | understand much better the applications of quantum mechanics. | 1 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Angular momentum theory. Time-independentperturbation theory. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Variational method. WKB approximation. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Angular momentum Theory | | | Week 2 | spherical harmonics-general operator methods | | | Week 3 | Coupling of angular momentum | | | Week 4 | isospin formalism-problems | | | Week 5 | time independent perturbation method-non degenerated eigenstates | | | Week 6 | degenerated eigenstates | | | Week 7 | cont. | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | problems | | | Week 10 | time-dependent perturbation method | | | Week 11 | Harmonic perturbations | | | Week 12 | Variational method | | | Week 13 | second exam | | | Week 14 | WKB approximation | | | Week 15 | application to stationary states | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Yılmaz A.H.,Lecture Notes, | | | |
| 1 | Sakurai,J.J.,1985;Modern Quantum Mechanics,Addison-Wesley,New York | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 20/11/2018 | 2 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 03/01/2019 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 27 | 1 | 27 | | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 15 | 5 | 75 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 17 | 1 | 17 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Diğer 1 | 16 | 1 | 16 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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