David Tong Lectures Volume 3: Quantum Mechanics

The discovery that electrons are waves

Volume 3: Quantum Mechanics

The universe we live in is both strange and interesting. This strangeness comes about because, at the most fundamental level, the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.

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The table of contents can be downloaded here.



Exercises

The exercises below have been created and curated over many decades by members of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. The faculty have long had a generous policy of making these examples sheets (and indeed exam questions) publicly available.

The examples sheets come from four different courses that we teach in the maths degree -- a second year course called simply "Quantum Mechanics", and third year courses called "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" (first taught many years ago by Dirac), "Applications of Quantum Mechanics", and "Quantum Computing". The examples sheets below have been matched to chapters in the book.

  • Chapter 2:   PDF    A particle in 1d.

  • Chapter 3:   PDF    Formalism.

  • Chapters 4 and 5:   PDF    Spin 1/2 and the harmonic oscillator.

  • Chapter 6:   PDF    A particle in 3d.

  • Chapter 7:   PDF    Symmetries.

  • Chapter 9:   PDF    Particles in magnetic fields.

  • Chapters 10 and 11:   PDF    Approximations.

  • Chapter 14:   PDF    Scattering.

  • Chapter 16:   PDF    Quantum foundations.

  • Chapter 17:   PDF    Quantum computing.


Errata

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