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| University: Technical University of Košice | |||||||||||||||
| Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics | |||||||||||||||
| Department: Department of Physics |
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| Course Number: 26000442 | Course Name: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics | ||||||||||||||
| Type, scope and method of learning activities: Course Type: Lecture, Numerical exercises Recommended scope of the course content (in hours): Full-time study (hours per week): 2,3 Part-time study (hours per semester): ST 26,39 Study Method: Attendance |
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| Number of credits: 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Recommended semester of study: ST | |||||||||||||||
| Recommended semester | Study programme | Study grade | Study Method | ||||||||||||
| 2.rok ST | Physical Engineering of Advanced Materials (FIPM_Bc_D_sk) | Bachelor | Attendance | ||||||||||||
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| Course completion requirements: Assessment and completion of the course: Credit test and examination Continuous assessment: Student passes the continuous assessment and receives credits when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 21% out of 40%. Credit test Final assessment: Student passes the final assessment and passes the examination when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 31% out of 60%. written examination - problem solving and theory Overall assessment: Overall assessment is the sum of the assessments obtained by students in the assessment period. The overall result is determined in accordance with the internal regulations of the Technical University in Košice. (Study Regulations, the internal regulation principles of doctoral studies) |
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| Learning outcomes: The course includes theoretical description of fundamental effects and experiments that lead to the formulation of quantum mechanics, basic concepts, principles and equations of quantum mechanics and the solution of Schrodinger equation for basic quantum-mechanical systems. |
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| Brief course content: Black-body radiation. Rayleigh-Jeans law. Planck’s law. Molar heat capacity of solids. Atomic spectra. Bohr model of hydrogen atom. Franck-Hertz experiment. Photoelectric effect. Compton scattering. Wave properties of microparticles. Experiments confirming wave properties of microparticles. Interpretation of de Broglie’s waves. Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics. Operators and their properties. Physical quantities and their operators. Properties of wavefunction. Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Measurability of physical quantities. Schrodinger equation. Continuity equation. Time dependence of mean values. Ehrenfest’s theorems. Particle in infinite potential well. Particle in a well of finite depth. Harmonic oscillator. Solution of SchR. Hydrogen atom. Solution of SchR. Probability density of electron occurrence. Physical interpretation of quantum numbers. Many-electron atoms. Electron spin. Zeeman effect. Pauli exclusion principle. Electrons configuration. |
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| Recommended Reference Sources: A. Beiser: Concepts of Modern Physics, 2003 A.S.Davydov: QWuantum Mechanics, 1976 |
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| Languages required for the course completion: Slovak, English | |||||||||||||||
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| Course assessment: Total number of students assessed: 20 |
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| A | B | C | D | E | FX | ||||||||||
| 35% | 20% | 10% | 15% | 15% | 5% | ||||||||||
| Teacher: doc. RNDr. Mária Kovaľaková, PhD. |
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| Last modified: 31.08.2022 | |||||||||||||||
| Approved by: person(s) responsible for the study program | |||||||||||||||