Essential Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers

1 INTRODUCTION. CLASSICAL PHYSICS AND THE PHYSICS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1.1 The perception of matter in the classical physics
1.2 Axioms of the classical physics
1.3 Status and effect of the classical physics by the end of the 19th century
1.4 Physics background of the high-tech era
1.5 Developments in physics reflected by the development of lighting technology
1.6 The demand for physics in electrical engineering and informatics: today and tomorrow
1.7 Control questions and exercises
2 BLACKBODY RADIATION: THE PHYSICS OF THE INCANDESCENT LAMP AND OF THE PYROMETER
2.1 Electromagnetic radiation of heated bodies
2.2 Electromagnetic field in equilibrium with a metal cage of temperature T
2.3 Determination of the average energy per degree of freedom. Planck's law
2.4 Practical applications of Planck's law for the blackbody radiation
2.5 Significance of Planck's law for the physics
2.6 Control questions and exercises
3 PHOTONS. THE PHYSICS OF LASERS
3.1 The photoelectric effect
3.2 Practical applications of the photoelectric effect (photocell, solar cell, chemical analysis)
3.3 The Compton-Effect
3.4 The photon hypothesis of Einstein
3.5 Planck's law and the photons. Stimulated emission
3.6 The laser
3.7 Control questions and exercises
4 ELECTRONS. THE PHYSICS OF DISCHARGE LAMPS
4.1 The fluorescent lamp
4.2 Frank-Hertz-Experiment
4.3 Models of the hydrogen atom
4.4 Practical consequences of the energy quantization for discharge lamps
4.5 The de Broglie hypothesis
4.6 The Davisson - Germer Experiment
4.7 Wave - particle dualism
4.8 Control questions and exercises
5 THE PARTICLE CONCEPT OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
5.1 Particles and waves in the classical physics
5.2 Double slit experiment with a single electron
5.3 The Born - Jordan interpretation of the electron wave
5.4 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
5.5 Particle concept of the quantum mechanics
5.6 The scale-dependence of physics
5.7 Towards a new physics
5.8 The significance of

Peter Deák is currently Professor of Theoretical Semiconductor Physics at the University of Bremen, Germany, and head of the Electronic Materials Group in the Bremen Center of Computational Materials Science. After obtaining his PhD at the Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary, and post-doctoral positions at SUNY, Albany, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, he obtained a tenure as professor of surface physics at the Budapest Institute of Technology and Economics in 1993. He relocated to Germany in 2003 where he took up his current position in Bremen. Peter Deák has more than 25 years of experience in teaching physics to undergraduates of electrical engineering and informatics.