DAMP Physics, IITB

Instructor Name:  Prof. K. G. Suresh Course Type:  Core Pre-requisites:  QM I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Course Content:  Hydrogen, Lamb shift; Angular momentum in multi-electron atoms; atomic magnetism, Zeeman and Paschen Bach effects; Hyperfine interaction; Nuclear interaction; Atomic spectra - vibrational, rotational; basics of NMR, ESR, etc. Books:  Brandsen, Joachain - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Cagnac and Pabey-Payroula - Modern Atomic Phy; Fano and Fano - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Bates and Estermann - Advances in Atomic and Molecular Phy (never read any of these - mentioned in the slides as references); usual QM textbooks like Shankar and Sakurai Lectures:  Attendance not mandatory; slides are a bit of a mess - too many errors; Prof. Suresh spends too much time spending qualitative stuff and too little on the actual calculations so you won't notice the errors till you go back and actually read the slides (which ...

Instructor Name K. G. Suresh Course Type Core Prerequisites QM I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Topics Hydrogen, Lamb shift; Angular momentum in multi-electron atoms; atomic magnetism, Zeeman and Paschen Bach effects; Hyperfine interaction; Nuclear interaction; Atomic spectra - vibrational, rotational; basics of NMR, ESR, etc. Books Brandsen, Joachain - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Cagnac and Pabey-Payroula - Modern Atomic Phy; Fano and Fano - Phy of Atoms and Molecules; Bates and Estermann - Advances in Atomic and Molecular Phy (never read any of these - mentioned in the slides as references); usual QM textbooks like Shankar and Sakurai Lectures Attendance not mandatory; slides are a bit of a mess - too many errors; Prof. Suresh spends too much time spending qualitative stuff and too little on the actual calculations, so you won't notice the errors till you go back and actually read the slides Assignments Tutorials uploaded on moodle; no grading; easy or moder...