Physics | Varun Varanasi

Electrodynamics

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

These notes originated from Yale’s PHYS430: Electromagnetic Fields and Optics as taught by Prof. Eduardo Higino da Silva Neto in Spring 2022. The course follows Introduction to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths covering electrostatics, electric potentials, electric fields in matter, magnetostatics, magnetic fields in matter, electrodynamics, electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, potentials and fields, radiation, and electrodynamics and relativity.

Griffiths Electrodynamics: Handwritten notes from Introduction to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths

Quantum Mechanics I

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

These notes originated from Yale’s PHYS440: Quantum Mechanics I as taught by Prof. Ramamurthi Shankar in Fall 2022. The course is the first course in a two sequence series following Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurthi Shankar covering operators, coupled masses, lagrange and hamiltonian methods, postulates of quantum mechanics, schrodinger’s equation, ehrenfest’s theorem, free particles, particle in a box, scatter, quantum harmonic oscillator, dirac oscillator, uncertainity principle, multiple particles, identical particles, symmetries and invariance, angular momentum, and the hydrogen atom.

Quantum Mechanics I: Handwritten notes from PHYS440: Quantum Mechanics 1
Review Guide: Summarized review guide of content convered in PHYS440: Quantum Mechanics 1

Quantum Mechanics II

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

These notes originated from Yale’s PHYS441: Quantum Mechanics II as taught by Prof. Ramamurthi Shankar in Spring 2023. The course is the second course in a two sequence series following Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurthi Shankar covering angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, spin, addition of angular momentum, variational and WKB methods, perturbation theory, scattering theory, and the dirac equation.

Quantum Mechanics II: Handwritten notes from Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurthi Shankar

Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

These notes originated from Yale’s PHYS420: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics as taught by Prof. Nicholas Read in Fall 2023. The course loosely follows Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by Fredrick Reif covering the thermodynamics of ideal gases and heat engines, simple applications of statistical mechanics, partition functions, the gibbs paradox, the microcanonical, canonical and grandcanonical ensembles, and quantum statistics of ideal gases.

Lecture Notes: Handwritten lectures notes

LATEX Notes: LATEX notes from Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by Fredrick Reif

Classical Mechanics

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Classical Mechanics Derivations is a summary of key ideas and associated derivations from Yale’s PHYS410: Classical Mechanics as taught by Prof. Keith Baker in Fall 2021. This course followed Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems by Thorton and Marion, but these notes omit concepts covered in-depth in introductory physics courses.