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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesIIT Kanpur

The Syllabus

  • Black-body radiation and its spectral energy density
  • Black body as a cavity, energy density inside a cavity, radiation pressure 
  • Stefan-Boltzmann law
  • Wien’s displacement law
  • Wien’s formula for spectral density 
  • Relation between energy density and average oscillator energy
  • Quantum hypothesis for oscillators and resulting spectral density 
  • More on quantizitaion concept – specific heat of insulators
  • Photoelectric effect 
  • Spectrum of hydrogen atom and Bohr model
  • Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization condition and application to particle in a box and harmonic oscillator

  • Application of Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization conditions to atoms-I 

  • The correspondence principle and selection rules 

  • Introduction to waves and wave equation 

  • Equivalence of Heisenberg and Schrödinger formulation-I 

  • Examples of solution of one-dimensional Schrödinger equation – Particle in one and two delta function potentials 

  • Solution of Schrödinger equation for free particles and periodic boundary conditions 

  • Numerical solution for the radial component of wavefunction for spherically symmetric potentials

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