Unit information: Quantum Mechanics 401 in 2010/11

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Unit name Quantum Mechanics 401
Unit code PHYSM0100
Credit points 10
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1A (weeks 1 - 6)
Unit director Professor. Dave Newbold
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

PHYS32011 Quantum Physics 301.

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Physics
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

To make further applications of non-relativistic quantum mechanics to a variety of real physical problems including scattering by potentials and the quantum behaviour of particles in electromagnetic fields. To introduce the basic ideas of relativistic wave mechanics and in particular, demonstrate the successes of the Dirac equation.