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==Course Material==
 
==Course Material==

Revision as of 23:14, 12 March 2006

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Course Information

Professor: Dr. John Scales

Office: Meyer 338

Office Hours: M,T 2:30-3:30 ; F 9-10

course requirements

suggestions

syllabus

more on the book

TICC Course Forum

Course Material

Prior to this time the course material is on original course web page

Evolution of Wavepackets (02/10/06)

Overview of Chapter 3 (02/24/06)

Operators, observables and measurment (02/24/06)

Measurements and eigenstates (02/27/06)

More on eigenfunctions and measurements (3/1/06)

Scattering from and tunneling through potential barriers (3/3/06)

Exam 1 overview (3/6/06)

Probability Currents (3/6/06) with a digression on optical lattices

square well potentials (3/8/06) finite, infinite and a comparison with the classical situation

more on square wells and review for Monday's exam (3/10/06)

Homework

Homework 3: due 3 March (2/24/06) postponed until Tuesday 7 March.

Divertimento

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.

Course Downloads

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

test 1 answers (2/27/06)

a review of Fourier series (posted 3/10/06)

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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