Quantum Mechanics and Electrodynamics - PHYS3011
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYS2040 and PHYS2050, or, PHYS2110 and PHYS2210; Exclusion:PHYS3210, PHYS3230
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Fundamental principles; the Hydrogen atom; angular momentum; stationary and time-dependent perturbations; spin.
Electromagnetic fields; Maxwell's equations, Poynting theorem, potential formulation. Plane waves, reflection and transmission. Emission of radiation from accelerating charges, scattering and propagation of radiation in material media. Extended review of special relativity and its relations to electromagnetism.
Assumed Knowledge: A knowledge of quantum mechanics to second year level and completion of a first course on Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics.
Electromagnetic fields; Maxwell's equations, Poynting theorem, potential formulation. Plane waves, reflection and transmission. Emission of radiation from accelerating charges, scattering and propagation of radiation in material media. Extended review of special relativity and its relations to electromagnetism.
Assumed Knowledge: A knowledge of quantum mechanics to second year level and completion of a first course on Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics.
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