PHYS810: Fundamental Quantum Mechanics

Physics 810 - Fundamental Quantum Mechanics is the first of a two-semester core graduate course in quantum mechanics at Simon Fraser University. This page contains links to scanned lecture notes prepared in 1991 by Dave Boal. The lectures are brief: mainly equations and diagrams without much text. The lectures are stored as PDF files and can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader (click to download a free copy from Adobe). The notes have been scanned at 200 dpi, likely a higher resolution than your screen, but they will print well. Canadian spelling conventions are used.

Click to download the PDF file.

Thanks to Alex Boal for scanning the lectures.

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Formulation of quantum mechanics

Section 3 - Kinematics and dynamics

Section 4 - Coordinate representation

Section 5 - Momentum representation

Section 6 - Harmonic oscillator

Section 7 - Angular momentum

Section 8 - States and observables

Section 9 - Bound states