Module ME2060-KP05
Fields and Quanta (FQ_BioPhy)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each summer semester
Credit points
5
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Biophysics 2016, compulsory, physics
Classes and lectures:
- Fields and Quanta (exercise, 2 SWS)
- Fields and Quanta (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 30 hours exam preparation
- 60 hours in-classroom work
- 60 hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
- Scalar and vector fields
- electric charge, electr. Potential, electr. field
- Current density, continuity equation
- magnetic field
- electromagnetic induction
- Maxwell equations
- Wave-particle duality
- Uncertainty
- Wave functions, operators and measurement
- Schrödinger equation
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students are able to calculate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in homogeneous media.
- They can enumerate the main axioms of quantum mechanics.
- They can explain the terms operator, wave function, quantum numbers and measurements, and the relationships between them.
- They can calculate the eigenstates of simple quantum mechanical systems.
- They can describe the stationary states of the hydrogen atom and calculate the associated energy values.
- They are using the terms and concepts of theoretical physics such an extent that you can acquire further representations on their own.
Grading through:
- written exam
Responsible for this module:
Literature:
- D. J. Griffiths : Elektrodynamik: Eine Einführung Pearson, Hallbergmoos 2011
- D. J. Griffiths : Quantenmechanik: Lehr- und Übungsbuch Pearson, Hallbergmoos 2012
Language:
- offered only in German
Notes:
Prerequisites for attending the module:- None
Prerequisites for the exam:
- Successful completion of homework assignments and presentation of own solutions in the course.
Format of the module exam:
- ME2060-L1: Fields and Quanta, Written exam, 90 min, 100 % of Module note
Last Updated:
22.04.2021