As per the UGC curriculum, Quantum Mechanics is a course taught to BSc Physics Honours 3rd year (5th sem or 6th sem) students. Thus this subject will be for BSc Physics Hons students in their 5th or 6th semester. Familiarity with Mathematics courses like Ordinary (or Partial) Differential Equations, Linear Algebra will be helpful. Working knowledge of these mathematical methods will, however, be summarized and demonstrated during the classes.

This particular session is designed to be an introductory session to Quantum Mechanics. This session will highight the fundamental reasons why the laws and methods of Classical Mechanics do not apply in Quantum Mechanics. It will also give an outline of the basic assumptions (Postulates) which are applicable when solutions of Quantum Mechanical systems are sought. This session will motivate the students on the fundamental aspects of measurements in Physics and specifically in Quantum Mechanical systems. It will also introduce the students to the workings of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle as a natural consequence of measurements carried out on Quantum systems such as atoms, molecules or various other atomic or subatomic particles.

The students will be expected to remember the basic laws of Classical Mechanics (such as Newton's Laws) and the basic concepts of Linear Algebra.