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PHY 304 Principles of Quantum Physics I

300 levelSciences10 topics

PHY 304 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Black-body radiation and Planck's hypothesis
  2. The photoelectric effect
  3. The Compton effect
  4. Wave-particle duality and de Broglie hypothesis
  5. The time-dependent and time-independent Schrodinger equation
  6. Particle in a one-dimensional box
  7. Potential steps and barriers
  8. Quantum tunnelling
  9. The quantum harmonic oscillator
  10. The hydrogen atom and quantum numbers

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Black-body radiation and Planck's hypothesis

Black-body radiation deals with the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation emitted by an ideal body in thermal equilibrium, while Planck's hypothesis explains that radiation is exchanged in discrete energy packets called quanta. For exams, you must master why classical physics failed, how Planck introduced quantization, and how this idea resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe and launched quantum theory.

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