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This page is obsolete.  To see Scales' wikis go to [http://physics.mines.edu/~jscales here] and clock on course wikis.
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To get the current info on 320, find out who's teaching it currently.
  
 
==Course Information==
 
==Course Information==
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* '''Office hours''' (subject to change, so always look here for the current schedule):   
 
* '''Office hours''' (subject to change, so always look here for the current schedule):   
 
  Monday:  9-10
 
  Monday:  9-10
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  Wednesday: 2:30-3:30
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  Tuesday: 2:30-3:30
 
  Thursday: 2-3
 
  Thursday: 2-3
  
 
* In addition, there will be a weekly help session on Tuesday Morning at 8:00 in a room TBD.
 
* In addition, there will be a weekly help session on Tuesday Morning at 8:00 in a room TBD.
  
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* You're welcome to come to my office any time.  The door is almost always open.  If I'm not there, likely Jared will be,
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* You're welcome to come to my office any time.  The door is almost always open.  If I'm not there, likely Jared will be, or Dr. Brian Zadler.  If you need to talk and can't find me, just send me an email:  jscales@mines.edu.
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or Dr. Brian Zadler.  If you need to talk and can't find me, just send me an email:  jscales@mines.edu.
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* There will be '''weekly homeworks, three one-hour exams throughout the semester and a two hour final'''.  Each of these components will count for one-third of your grade:  i.e., <font color=red>1/3 HW, 1/3 hourlies, 1/3 final.</font>  The grading scale will be:  90 and above, A.  80-89, B. 70-79 C.  55-69 D.
 
* There will be '''weekly homeworks, three one-hour exams throughout the semester and a two hour final'''.  Each of these components will count for one-third of your grade:  i.e., <font color=red>1/3 HW, 1/3 hourlies, 1/3 final.</font>  The grading scale will be:  90 and above, A.  80-89, B. 70-79 C.  55-69 D.
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* '''Homeworks''' will be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the Thursday 8 days later.  You must turn the HW's in to Jared Peacock, who is the TA for this class.  You can do that by 1) handing them to Jared, 2) putting them in his mailbox in the Physics Office, or 3) putting them in the "in-box" on our door (MH 339).
 
* '''Homeworks''' will be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the Thursday 8 days later.  You must turn the HW's in to Jared Peacock, who is the TA for this class.  You can do that by 1) handing them to Jared, 2) putting them in his mailbox in the Physics Office, or 3) putting them in the "in-box" on our door (MH 339).
  
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* Finally, note that this is a 4 credit hour course.  Hence classes are 65 minutes long.  This makes for a long session.  I'll do what  
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* With rare exceptions, I will post the day's lecture notes immediately after class.  Hence, if you miss class, I expect you get whatever information you need from the wiki or from your classmates.
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I can to break things up.  In particular, I try to include some diversion at the end, frequently an application of quantum mechanics  from the current research literature.
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* Finally, note that this is a 4 credit hour course.  Hence classes are 65 minutes long.  This makes for a long session.  I'll do what I can to break things up.  In particular, I try to include some diversion at the end, frequently an application of quantum mechanics  from the current research literature.
 
   
 
   
  
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[http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-Griffiths/dp/0131118927/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0098294-9312137?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194541030&sr=1-1 Here is a link to Amazon for the new book for 2008]
 
[http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-Griffiths/dp/0131118927/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0098294-9312137?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194541030&sr=1-1 Here is a link to Amazon for the new book for 2008]
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'''Tentative Exam Schedule:'''
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Exam 1, February 6.  Exam 2, March 5.  Exam 3, April 9.  All these will be nominally 1 hour exams but you will have
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more  time than that and they will be in MH 220.  '''Exams will be closed book except that you will be allowed to bring
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a one page  cheat sheet'''.  These dates are all Wednesdays, by the way.
  
 
==2008 Course Material==
 
==2008 Course Material==
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/griffiths_prob.pdf  here is the link to the pdf file.]  You must have the book though, so if you have not ordered it or bought from the bookstore, please do so ASAP.
 
[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/griffiths_prob.pdf  here is the link to the pdf file.]  You must have the book though, so if you have not ordered it or bought from the bookstore, please do so ASAP.
  
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==Old Course Material==
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*'''Homework 2'''.  Chapter 1.  1.6,1.7,1.8, 1.10, 1.14.  Due Thursday 1/24/08 at the end of the day.
  
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'''Spring 2008 note''':  You can ignore this if you want.  You may find useful tidbits here, but the book we are using now is rather different than the one used below.
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*'''Homework 3'''   Chapter 2.  2.1b, 2.1c, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6,2.8.  Due Thursday January 31st at the end of the day.
  
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*'''Homework 4'''  Chapter 2.  2.18, 2.19, 2.21, 2.22.  Due Tuesday February 19 at 17:00.
  
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[[Modern 2:Evolution of Wavepackets|Evolution of Wavepackets]] (02/10/06)
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*'''Homework 5'''  Chapter 2.  2.26, 2.29, 2.31, 2.33.  Due Thursday February 28 at 17:00.
  
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[[Modern 2:Overview of Chapter 3|Overview of Chapter 3]] (02/24/06)
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*'''Homework 6'''  Chapter 3.  3.11, 3.12, 3.15, Read 3.5.1 then do 3.14, 3.21,3.22. Due Friday March 28 at 17:00.
  
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[[Modern 2:Operators, Observables, and Measurment|Operators, Observables, and Measurment]] (02/24/06)
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*'''Homework 7'''  Chapter 4.  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.8, 4.9, 4.13.  Due Friday April 11 at 17:00.
  
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[[Modern 2:Measurements and Eigenstates|Measurements and Eigenstates]] (02/27/06)
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*'''Homework 8'''  Chapter 4.  4.27, 4.31, 4.35, 4.36, 4.47.  Due Thursday, May 1 at 17:00.
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===lecture notes by week===
  
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[[Modern 2:More on Eigenfunctions and Measurements|More on Eigenfunctions and Measurements]] (3/1/06)
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[[week of 1/11/08]]
  
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[[Modern 2:Scattering From and Tunneling Through Potential Barriers|Scattering From and Tunneling Through Potential Barriers]] (3/3/06)
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[[week of 1/14/08]]
  
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[[Modern 2:Exam 1 Overview|Exam 1 Overview]] (3/6/06)
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'''If you've forgotten your Fourier Series, please review this before we start Chapter 2.'''
  
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[[Modern 2:Probability Currents|Probability Currents]] (3/6/06) with a digression on optical lattices
 
  
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[[Modern 2:Square Well Potentials|Square Well Potentials]] (3/8/06) finite, infinite and a comparison with the classical situation
 
  
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[[Modern 2:More on Square Wells and Review for Monday's Exam|More on Square Wells and Review for Monday's Exam]] ndamental problem
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[[week of 1/21/08]]
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(3/17/06)
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[[Harmonic oscillators]] (3/27/06)
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[[week of 1/28/08]]
  
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[[Exam 2 overview]] (3/29/06)
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{{PDF|filename=Samplequestions1.pdf|title=Some sample questions for exam 1.}}
  
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[[Classical vs quantum harmonic oscillator. Correspondance principle]] (3/31/06)
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{{PDF|filename=Solutions1.pdf|title=solutions to sample questions.}}
  
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[[Two state systems:  the ammonia molecule]] (4/3/04)
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{{PDF|filename=Test1.pdf|title=test 1}}
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{{PDF|filename=Test1solutions.pdf|title=test 1 solutions.}}
  
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[[Overview of Chapter 5]] (4/5/06)
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[[2/8/08]]
  
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4/7/06 no class--edays
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[[week of 2/11/08]]
  
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[[The ammonia Maser]] (4/10/06)
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[[week of 2/18/08]]
  
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4/14/06 Exam 3
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[[week of 2/25/08]]
  
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/lecture04-17-06.pdf 4/17/06 PDF lecture notes]
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[[Sample questions for exam 2]]
  
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/lecture04-19-06.pdf 4/19/06 PDF lecture notes]
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{{PDF|filename=Exam_2_sample_questions_solutions.pdf|title=solutions to sample questions}}
  
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/lecture04-21-06.pdf 4/21/06 PDF lecture notes]
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{{PDF|filename=Test2.pdf|title=test 2}}
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{{PDF|filename=Exam2_solutions.pdf|title=solutions for exam 2.}}
  
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{{PDF|filename=Sphericalharmonics.pdf|title=separation of variables of the Laplacian  4/21/06}}
 
  
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[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html nice spherical harmonics page from Mathworld]
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[[week of 3/3/08]]
  
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{{mathematica|filename=Sphericalharmonics.nb|title=manipulating spherical harmonics in mathematica.}}
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[[week of 3/17/08]]
  
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/lecture04-26-06.pdf 4/26/06 PDF lecture notes on series solutions of ODEs]
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[[week of 3/24/08]]
  
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{{PDF|filename=Lecture04-28-06.pdf|title=PDF lecture notes from  4/28/06}}
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[[week of 3/31/08]]
  
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[[week of 4/7/08]]
  
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[[coherent states versus number (harmonic oscillator) states]] (5/1/06)
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{{PDF|filename=4_13_08.pdf|title=Chapter 3 review from Sunday 4/13}}
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[[week of 4/14/08]]
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[[week of 4/21/08]]
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[[week of 4/28/08]]
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{{PDF|filename=Test3.pdf|title=test 3}}
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{{PDF|filename=EXAM3.pdf|title=solutions to exam 3}}
  
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==Divertimenti==
 
==Divertimenti==
  
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{{mathematica|filename=Wavepackets2.nb|title=Gaussian wavepackets You can animate this and see the evolution of the phase with time.}}
 
{{mathematica|filename=Wavepackets2.nb|title=Gaussian wavepackets You can animate this and see the evolution of the phase with time.}}
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/test1answers.nb test 1 answers] (2/27/06)
 
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/fourierseries.pdf a review of Fourier series] (posted 3/10/06)
 
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[http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/320/exam3pool.pdf sample questions for exam 3] (posted 4/13/06)
 
  
 
==Course Links==
 
==Course Links==

Latest revision as of 22:44, 21 September 2010

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This page is obsolete. To see Scales' wikis go to here and clock on course wikis. To get the current info on 320, find out who's teaching it currently.

Contents

Course Information

Pdf.png Download 2008 syllabus for PH320

Instructor: John Scales. MH 339. jscales@mines.edu.

TA: Jared Peacock. MH 339. jpeacock@mines.edu

  • Office hours (subject to change, so always look here for the current schedule): 
Monday:  9-10
Tuesday: 2:30-3:30
Thursday: 2-3
  • In addition, there will be a weekly help session on Tuesday Morning at 8:00 in a room TBD.
  • You're welcome to come to my office any time. The door is almost always open. If I'm not there, likely Jared will be, or Dr. Brian Zadler. If you need to talk and can't find me, just send me an email: jscales@mines.edu.
  • There will be weekly homeworks, three one-hour exams throughout the semester and a two hour final. Each of these components will count for one-third of your grade: i.e., 1/3 HW, 1/3 hourlies, 1/3 final. The grading scale will be: 90 and above, A. 80-89, B. 70-79 C. 55-69 D.
  • Homeworks will be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the Thursday 8 days later. You must turn the HW's in to Jared Peacock, who is the TA for this class. You can do that by 1) handing them to Jared, 2) putting them in his mailbox in the Physics Office, or 3) putting them in the "in-box" on our door (MH 339).
  • With rare exceptions, I will post the day's lecture notes immediately after class. Hence, if you miss class, I expect you get whatever information you need from the wiki or from your classmates.
  • Finally, note that this is a 4 credit hour course. Hence classes are 65 minutes long. This makes for a long session. I'll do what I can to break things up. In particular, I try to include some diversion at the end, frequently an application of quantum mechanics from the current research literature.


Griffiths.jpg

Here is a link to Amazon for the new book for 2008

Tentative Exam Schedule: 

Exam 1, February 6.  Exam 2, March 5.  Exam 3, April 9.  All these will be nominally 1 hour exams but you will have 
more  time than that and they will be in MH 220.  Exams will be closed book except that you will be allowed to bring 
a one page  cheat sheet.  These dates are all Wednesdays, by the way.

2008 Course Material

  • Homework 1. Chapter 1 in Griffiths. Read section 1.1 on the Schrödinger equation. 1.1 and 1.2 are fundamental but hard, we will come back to these ideas later, but it's a good overview of some modern ideas. Do problems 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 on page 12. Do problems 1.4 and 1.5 on page 14. These will be due on Thursday January 17 at the end of the day.

Since not all of you may have the book yet, for this first homework, I have scanned the relevant pages. here is the link to the pdf file. You must have the book though, so if you have not ordered it or bought from the bookstore, please do so ASAP.

  • Homework 2. Chapter 1. 1.6,1.7,1.8, 1.10, 1.14. Due Thursday 1/24/08 at the end of the day.
  • Homework 3 Chapter 2. 2.1b, 2.1c, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6,2.8. Due Thursday January 31st at the end of the day.
  • Homework 4 Chapter 2. 2.18, 2.19, 2.21, 2.22. Due Tuesday February 19 at 17:00.
  • Homework 5 Chapter 2. 2.26, 2.29, 2.31, 2.33. Due Thursday February 28 at 17:00.
  • Homework 6 Chapter 3. 3.11, 3.12, 3.15, Read 3.5.1 then do 3.14, 3.21,3.22. Due Friday March 28 at 17:00.
  • Homework 7 Chapter 4. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.8, 4.9, 4.13. Due Friday April 11 at 17:00.
  • Homework 8 Chapter 4. 4.27, 4.31, 4.35, 4.36, 4.47. Due Thursday, May 1 at 17:00.

lecture notes by week

week of 1/11/08

week of 1/14/08

If you've forgotten your Fourier Series, please review this before we start Chapter 2.


week of 1/21/08

week of 1/28/08

Pdf.png Download Some sample questions for exam 1.
Pdf.png Download solutions to sample questions.
Pdf.png Download test 1
Pdf.png Download test 1 solutions.

2/8/08

week of 2/11/08

week of 2/18/08

week of 2/25/08

Sample questions for exam 2

Pdf.png Download solutions to sample questions
Pdf.png Download test 2
Pdf.png Download solutions for exam 2.


week of 3/3/08

week of 3/17/08

week of 3/24/08

week of 3/31/08

week of 4/7/08

Pdf.png Download Chapter 3 review from Sunday 4/13

week of 4/14/08

week of 4/21/08

week of 4/28/08

Pdf.png Download test 3
Pdf.png Download solutions to exam 3

Divertimenti

2/26/06 Millimeter Waves

3/1/06 The Wacky World of Quantum Computing

3/3/06 Applications of Quantum Tunneling

3/6/06 amazingly beautiful experiments on quantum computing using Josephson junctions and microwave circuits.

3/15/06 quantum well heterostructures, photonic crystals heterostructure laser diodes

3/29/06 measuring the spring constant of a single polymer chain

Course Downloads

Mathematica.png Download Gaussian wavepackets You can animate this and see the evolution of the phase with time.

Course Links

Scales' web page

TICC Course Forum

PhET (A CU website with many excellent demos for physics.)

Jerry Gilfoyle's very nice Mathematica notebooks on QM

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