Quantum Mechanics, distance learning

The course is offered as a distance course during summer. You will study basic quantum mechanics, one of the corner stones of modern physics. Accustomed notions of how to describe a particle's position and momentum are replaced by wave equations and probability distributions. This paradigm shift from classical physics makes the subject extremely interesting and challenging.
You will first be introduced to the historical background of quantum mechanics and then study the basic concepts and methods of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, where Newton's well-known laws of particle motion are replaced by a wave equation: the Schrödinger equation. The wave functions that are solutions to the Schrödinger equation are examined and interpreted as descriptions of probability distributions. This statistical interpretation is also expressed in the form of uncertainty principles. The Schrödinger equation and its solutions are discussed for simpler cases of both one-dimensional and multidimensional motions; free particle, harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom. You are introduced to important mathematical operators and their physical interpretation in the form of, for example, momentum and electron spin. Two-level systems and the principles for adding momentum are discussed.