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Code - Course Title FİZ508 - Quantum Mechanics
Course Type Required Courses
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Laboratory + Practice 3+0
ECTS 7.5
Course Instructor(s) DOÇENT ZÜLEYHA ÖZTAŞ
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face.
Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended Modern Quantum Mechanics J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano (Addison-Wesley) 2001.
Recommended Reading List Quantum Mechanics Concepts and Applications, Nouredine Zettili, John Wiley& Sons Ltd. (2001)Prinsiples Quantum Mechanics, R. Shankar, Springer, 1994.Quantum Mechanics; A Modern Development, L. E. Ballentine, World Scientific, 2000. J. S. Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics, University Science Book, 2012.
Assessment methods and criteria 1 classical midterm 1 classical final
Work Placement Not Applicable.
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Content

Weeks Topics
Week - 1 THE BASIC CONSEPTS OF QUANTUM MECHANİCS:The uncertainty principle. The principle of superposition. Operators. Addition and multiplication of operators. The continuous spectrum. The passage to the limiting case of classical mechanics.
Week - 2 KETS BRAS AND OPERATORS: Ket Space. Bra Space and ınner product. Operators.
Week - 3 BASE KETS AND MATRIX REPRESENTATION:Eigenkets of observable. Matrix representation. Spin 1/2 system
Week - 4 MEUSUREMENTS, OBSERVABLES AND THE UNCERTAINTY RELATIONS: Measurements. Compatible observables. Incompatible observables. Uncertainty Relation
Week - 5 CHANGE OF BASIS: Transformation operator. Diagonalization. Unitary Equivalent Observables.
Week - 6 POSITION; MOMENTUM AND TRANSLATION: Contınuous spectra. Position Eigenkets and Position Measurements. Translation. Momentum as a generator of translation.
Week - 7 WAVE FUNCTIONS IN POSITION AND MOMENTUM SPACE: Posıtıon space wave functoin. Momentum operator in position basis. Gaussian wave packets. Generation to Tree Dimensions
Week - 8 TIME EVOLUATION AND SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION. Time Evoluation Operator. Schrödinger equation. Energy Eigenkets.
Week - 9 THE SCHRÖDINGER VERSUS THE HEISENBERG PICTURE: Unitary Operator. State kets and observables in Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures. The Heisenberg Equation of Motion.
Week - 10 Free particles; Ehrenfest's theorem. Base kets and transition amplitudes.
Week - 11 SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR: Energy Eigenkets and energy eigenvalues. Time Development of Oscillator
Week - 12 ROTATIONS AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM COMMUTATION RELATIONS: Finite Versus Infınitesimal Rotations. Infinitesimal Rotations in Quantum Mechanics.
Week - 13 SPIN 1/2 SYSTEM AND FINITE ROTATIONS: Rotation Operator for Spin 1/2
Week - 14 Pauli Two Component Formalism. Rotation in Two Component Formalism.

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  • Abstract analysis and synthesis
  • Problem solving
  • Information Management
  • Elementary computing skills
  • Decision making
  • To work in interdisciplinary projects
  • To work in international projects

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