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Course Name Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics
Course Code 24OEL640
Program B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry
Credits 2
Campus Amritapuri , Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1

Historical Perspective of Quantum Physics: Failure of classical mechanics – Planck-Einstein, Bohr-de Broglie-

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty.

Unit 2

Empirical confirmations of Wave Particle Duality. Schrödinger Equation – Particle in a box-Tunnel effect.

Unit 3

Paradoxes in QM – de Broglie paradox – Schrödinger’s cat, Mach-Zhender type interferometers – EPR paradox

– Bell-type Inequalities.

Unit 4

Various interpretations – Statistical, Copenhagen, Bohm’s formulation, Transactional, Wheeler’s Participatory

Universe, Many World, Decoherence, consciousness interpretation.

Unit 5

Uncertainty-Nonlocality, Holistic universe, Violations of causality-Retro influence-Philosophy of Advaitha (non-Duality).

Text and References:

  1. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner (Aug 1, 2011)
  2. The New Physics and Cosmology Zanjoc, Oxford 2004

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