Book Description

No.-I Matter Waves : Inadequacies of classical mechanics, Photoelectric phenomenon, Compton effect, wave particle duality, de-Broglie matter waves and their experimental verification, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Complementary principle, Principle of superposition, Motion of wave packets. No.-II Schrodinger Equation and its Applications : Schrodinger wave equation, Interpretation of wave function, Expectation values of dynamical variables, Ehrenfest theorem, Orthonormal properties of wave functions, One dimensional motion in step potential, Rectangular barrier, Square well potential, Particle in a box, normalization, Simple Harmonic Oscillator. No.-III Atomic Spectra : Spectra of hydrogen, deuteron and alkali atoms, spectral terms, doublet fine structure, screening constants for alkali spectra for s, p, d, and f states, selection rules. Singlet and triplet fine structure in alkaline earth spectra, L-S and J-J couplings. Weak spectra: continuous X-ray spectrum and its dependence on voltage, Duane and Haunt’s law. Characteristics X-rays, Moseley’s law, doublet structure and screening parameters in X-ray spectra, X-ray absorption spectra. No.-IV Molecular Spectra : Discrete set of electronic energies of molecules, quantisation of vibrational and rotational energies, determination of internuclear distance, pure rotation and rotation- vibration spectra, Dissociation limit for the ground and other electronic states, transition rules for pure vibration and electronic vibration spectra.