- Phys 402 Philosophy / Ground Rules
- Review of Modern Physics topics from Phys 371
- Lecture: "Probability and Uncertainty" by Richard Feynman presented at Cornell U on November 18, 1964
- The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics. Another source of QM Postulates.
- Pictures of quantum LC resonators.
- Lecture 1 Highlights
- Plots of some Legendre Polynomials on the interval x = [-1,1]
- Pictures of spherical harmonics (absolute magnitudes)
- The cosmic microwave background radiation as a function of angle
- H-Atom Orbitals, another plot, and another plot
- Notes on series solutions to differential equations
- H-Atom radial wavefunctions
- H-Atom Orbitals
- Graduate research fellowships!
- Lecture 2 Highlights
- Lecture 3 Highlights
- The history of spin
- The Stern-Gerlach device
- Spherical Harmonic |Y2m|2
- Lecture 4 Highlights
- Perturbation theory in a 1D infinite square well
- Lecture 5 highlights
- Lecture 5 highlights had an alternative history played out...
- Lecture 6 highlights
- Origins of the s p d f nomenclature
- Fine-Structure corrected energies of the Hydrogen atom
- The Na Doublet
- Hydrogen Atom energy levels and transitions
- The fine structure splitting of the hydrogen atom
- Research paper on the time-dependence of the fine structure constant a
- Lecture 7 highlights
- The Clebsch-Gordan coefficient table
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
- Example use of the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for a Hydrogen atom with l = 1 and s = 1/2
- The Stern-Gerlach device
- Download the PhET demonstration on the Stern-Gerlach device
- Lecture 8 highlights
- Does a Measured Spin State Smear Out into Other Spin States?
- Lecture 9 highlights
- The Zeeman effect in Hydrogen
- Zeeman splitting of the n = 2 levels of Hydrogen
- Paper showing perturbed eigen-energies of a chaotic 'quantum dot' (Fig. 2)
- Nice discussion of the uses of 21-cm radiation in astronomy (about half way down the page)
- Pioneer 10 Hyperfine Transition unit measure plaque
- The Golden Records on the Voyager probes also use the 21-cm line as the unit of length
- China has completed the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to be used for 21-cm line Astronomy and SETI searches
- Another perturbation on the order of 10-8 eV (Experiments show blockading interaction of Rydberg atoms over long distances)
- On the origin of proton spin
- Griffiths paper on Hyperfine splitting in the ground state of Hydrogen
- Brief description of second quantization in field theory
- Prof. Anlage's colleague Alexey Ustinov met Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin last year to discuss funding of science in Russia
- Lecture 10 highlights
- Elementary particles as Bosons and Fermions
- Fermions vs. Bosons according to Feynman
- Lecture 11 highlights
- Symmetric and Antisymmetric Wavefunctions in 1D
- Correlation functions in Statistical Mechanics
- He atom low-lying states
- Term notation for He and the Periodic Table
- Radial probability density in Hydrogen atom orbitals The periodic table song
- Lecture 12 highlights
- Review for Exam 1
- EXAM 1 (Solutions posted on ELMS)
- EXAM 1 Results
- Notes about the Bloch Sphere from Prof. Fred Wellstood of CNAM
- Rabi oscillations in real life
- Quantum Computing Report, and a listing of jobs for quantum physicists!
- Lecture 14 highlights
- Blackbody radiation spectrum
- Relations between contiguous Associated Legendre polynomials
- Lecture 15 Highlights
- Some details about He-Ne lasers
- Questions for students about the QM textbook
- Lecture 16 highlights
- Harmonic oscillator excited state
- Harmonic oscillator probability densities
- Lecture 17 highlights
- Field Ion Microscopy and Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling
- Carbon Nanotube Radio
- Download the PhET demonstration on Quantum Tunneling
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