PHYSICS 115A · PHYS 115AQuantum Mechanics
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Classical background. Basic ideas of quantum nature of light, wave-particle duality, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Schrödinger equation. One-dimensional square well and harmonic oscillator problems. One-dimensional scattering, Formal theory, Hilbert spaces, and Dirac notation.
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Requisites: courses 17, 32, 105A.
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PHYSICS 115A
- PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
3 direct requisites. Showing 43 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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PHYSICS 115A
- PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
- PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
- EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planets
- EPS SCI 228Introduction to Planetary Dynamos
- PHYSICS 144Polymer Physics
- PHYSICS 170NComputational Physics and Astronomy Laboratory
- EPS SCI 200BIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics II: Oceans and Atmospheres
- EPS SCI 200CIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics III: Plasmas —Aeronomy and Interplanetary Medium
- EPS SCI 240Space Plasma Physics
- EPS SCI 211Mathematical Methods of Geophysics
- PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115CQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 123Atomic Structure
- PHYSICS 124Nuclear Physics
- PHYSICS 126Elementary Particle Physics
- PHYSICS 180QQuantum Optics Laboratory
- CHEM C115BAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory II
- CHEM C115CAdvanced Quantum Chemistry: Applications
- PHYSICS 180FElementary Particle Laboratory
- CHEM C215BAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory II
- PHYSICS M215DNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
- CHEM C215CAdvanced Quantum Chemistry: Applications
- CHEM M223CNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
- ASTR 145High-Energy Astrophysics
- PHYSICS 128Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
- PHYSICS 140BQuantum States of Matter
- PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physics
- PHYSICS 242AAdvanced Solid-State Theory
- PHYSICS 242BAdvanced Solid-State Theory
- PHYSICS 242CTopology of Condensed Matter
- CHEM M120Soft Matter Laboratory
- PHYSICS 150Physics of Charged-Particle and Laser Beams
- PHYSICS M180GSoft Matter Laboratory
- PHYSICS C187ABiological Physics I: Life at Rest
- PHYSICS C187BBiological Physics II: Life in Motion
- PHYSICS 235Quantum Simulation for Physics
- PHYSICS 245Quantum Computation
- QNT SCI 402Quantum Information
- QNT SCI 403Theory of Quantum Devices
- QNT SCI 420Satellite Quantum Networking
- PHYSICS C287ABiological Physics I: Life at Rest
- PHYSICS C287BBiological Physics II: Life in Motion
14 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 54 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.