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8.05 Quantum Physics II
MIT OpenCourseWare
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2015–2018 · score 2.0
MIT's second undergraduate quantum mechanics course, following 8.04, which builds on the formal theory and its applications. It is published on MIT OpenCourseWare with lectures and problem sets.
One commenter calls it an advanced quantum physics course they highly recommend, and says that doing the problem sets teaches quite a bit.
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I study at Universität Leipzig, in their international physics studies program. It's a fairly rigorous program and you are expected to learn a lot on your own outside of class, which is actually how I prefer it. I can definitely recommend it if you are the kind of person who can learn yourself. I see the classes as more of a guide of what to study and you expand on that yourself outside of class.
I'm getting another bachelors as I didn't feel that my finance degree taught me enough to jump into a physics masters (and I was right, there's a lot to be learned in undergrad math and physics). In undergrad you won't necessarily get into specialized stuff like quantum computing, but you will take the basic experimental and theoretical QM courses that can help prepare for something like that in a masters program. So I'm not sure I can recommend anything on that yet.
MIT has a few excellent courses on quantum physics. They have two versions of their 8.04 taught by two different professors and I highly recommend both. Then they have their advanced quantum physics 8.05 out there as well, which I also highly recommend. If you have the discipline to do the problem sets then you will learn quite a bit.
MIT's 8.05x, Mastering Quantum Mechanics (https://www.edx.org/course/mastering-quantum-mechanics-mitx-...)
It's the only MOOC I've taken that was anywhere close to the kind of experience I had as an actual undergraduate at MIT. Outstanding lectures with accompanying lecture notes, challenging but rewarding problem sets, lots of interaction by the professor and other staff in the forums.
It's not a course in the sense of having problem sets and grades, but V. Balakrishnan's lecture series on classical physics (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E4E56893588CBA8) is amazing, just incredibly dense with insight.
I would suggest starting from the basics of quantum physics if you don't already have a solid foundation. MIT has several excellent courses on the subject [1-4]. The first two are the same course, but taught by different professors with slightly different curriculum.
[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...
[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...
[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-05-quantum-physics-ii-...
[4] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii...