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Fundamentals of Physics II

Yale,, Fall 2006 , Prof. Ramamurti Shankar

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

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Electrostatics - Electric Fields - Gauss's Law and Application to Conductors and Insulators - The Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy - Capacitors - Resistance - Circuits and Magnetism - Ampere's Law - Lenz's and Faraday's Laws - LCR CircuitsDC Voltage - LCR CircuitsAC Voltage - Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves - Ray or Geometrical Optics - Wave Theory of Light;Quantum Mechanics:The key experiments and wave-particle duality - Measurement theory, states of definite energy - Particle in a Box - Time-dependent Schrdinger Equation - Summary of postulates and special topics

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Lecture 25: Quantum Mechanics VII Summary of postulates and special topics

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For more information about Professor Shankars book based on the lectures from this course,� Fundamentals of Physics Mechanics,� Relativity, and Thermodynamics, visit� httpbit.ly1jFIqNu.

Fundamentals of Physics, II (PHYS 201)

The various postulates of quantum mechanics treated in previous lectures are reviewed and summarized. The uncertainty principle is again discussed and a new one between energy and time is introduced. The quantum mechanical behavior of an electron in a hydrogen atom is described. The principles of quantum mechanics are then generalized to describe two or more quantum particles. It is shown that identical particles have to be bosons or fermions, the latter obeying the Pauli exclusion principle, which in turn is key to explaining the periodic table.

0000 - Chapter 1. Major Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
2031 - Chapter 2. Applications of Quantum Mechanics
2800 - Chapter 3. Energy-time uncertainty principle
4121 - Chapter 4. Quantum Mechanics of more than one particle

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This course was recorded in Spring 2010.

For more information about Professor Shankars book based on the lectures from this course,� Fundamentals of Physics Mechanics,� Relativity, and Thermodynamics, visit� httpbit.ly1jFIqNu.