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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 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 ndamental problem (3/17/06)
Harmonic oscillators (3/27/06)
Exam 2 overview (3/29/06)
Classical vs quantum harmonic oscillator. Correspondance principle (3/31/06)
Two state systems: the ammonia molecule (4/3/04)
Overview of Chapter 5 (4/5/06)
4/7/06 no class--edays
The ammonia Maser (4/10/06)
4/14/06 Exam 3
 Download separation of variables of the Laplacian 4/21/06
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nice spherical harmonics page from Mathworld
 Download manipulating spherical harmonics in mathematica.
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4/26/06 PDF lecture notes on series solutions of ODEs
| Download PDF lecture notes from 4/28/06
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coherent states versus number (harmonic oscillator) states (5/1/06)
Homework
Homework 3 (2/24/06) Postponed Until Tuesday March 7, 2006
Homework 4 (3/31/06) Due April 11, 2006
Homework 5 (4/20/06) Due May 2, 2006
Divertimenti
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
| Download Gaussian wavepackets You can animate this and see the evolution of the phase with time.
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test 1 answers (2/27/06)
a review of Fourier series (posted 3/10/06)
sample questions for exam 3 (posted 4/13/06)
