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===Some simple Mathematica examples===
 
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[http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/thaller/visualization/vis.html some very nice QM visualizations]
 
[http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/thaller/visualization/vis.html some very nice QM visualizations]
  
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===1/18/08===
 
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[http://ticc.mines.edu/csm/wiki/images/2/29/Orthogonal_projection.pdf Refresher from 311 on functions as elements of vector spaces]
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[http://ticc.mines.edu/csm/wiki/images/2/29/Orthogonal_projection.pdf Refresher from Fall07 PH311 class on functions as elements of vector spaces.  2/22/07.]
  
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[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Ehrenfest.html Paul Ehrenfest biography]
 
[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Ehrenfest.html Paul Ehrenfest biography]
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'''If you've forgotten your Fourier Series, please review this before we start Chapter 2.'''

Latest revision as of 16:01, 21 January 2008

Pdf.png Download Lecture notes for 1/14/08: more probability, Gaussians
Pdf.png Download Supplement for 1/14/08: an arm-waving "derivation" of Schrodinger's equation

Some simple Mathematica examples

x = Table[Random[], {i, 100}]

ListPlot[x]

Mean[x]

Variance[x]

y = Table[Random[Integer],{i,100}]

z = Table[Random[Real, {10, 11}], {i, 100}]


Mathematica.png Download How coin tossing leads to a Gaussian


Mathematica.png Download Basic Properties of Gaussians


some useful java applets illustrating probability. Click on probablity.



1/16/08

some very nice QM visualizations

Pdf.png Download Lecture notes for 1/16/08: probability amplitudes, conservation of probability, ensembles, momentum as an operator

1/18/08

Refresher from Fall07 PH311 class on functions as elements of vector spaces. 2/22/07.

Pdf.png Download Lecture notes from 1/18/08: vectors in infinite dim. spaces, operators, Q(x,p) -> Q(x, -ihd/dt)


You'll get a chance to prove Ehrenfest's theorem in problem 1.7.

Ehrenfest.jpg

Image from the St. Andrews history page linked here:

Paul Ehrenfest biography


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

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