Week 05-06

Learning Outcomes:

  • The formalism of quantum mechanics is based on a number of postulates. These postulates are in turn based on a wide range of experimental observations.
  • In these lessons, we present a formal discussion of these postulates, and how they can be used to extract quantitative information about microphysical systems.
  • These lessons examine that Quantum theory not only works, but works extremely well, and this represents its experimental justification. It has a very penetrating qualitative as well as quantitative prediction power; this prediction power has been verified by a rich collection of experiments. So the accurate prediction power of quantum theory gives irrefutable evidence to the validity of the postulates upon which the theory is built.

Learning Plan:

Lecture 01: Basic Postulates of Quantum Mechanics.

Lecture 02: Studying the (a) State of the System (b) Observables and operators (c) Probabilistic interpretation.

Lecture 03: Discussion Time Evolution of the state and operators.

Lecture 04:Excercise.

Lecture 05: Ehrenfest principle

Lecture 06: Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics

 

 

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