The basic knowledge of quantum mechanics

The following sections are included:

• The characteristic motion of microscopic particles

  • Black body radiation and energy quantization

  • Photoelectric effect and photons

  • The wave-particle duality of microscopic particles of matter

  • The uncertainty principle

• The basic assumptions in quantum mechanics

  • Wavefunction and the states of microscopic particles

  • Mechanical quantities and operators

  • Eigenstate, eigenvalue and the Schrödinger equation

  • Superposition principle

  • Pauli's principle

• Schrödinger equation and its solution for particle in a one-dimensional box

• Problems 1