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PHY 444 Blackboards - Fall 2024

These are pictures of blackboard lectures for Quantum Mechanics Fall 2024. Go to Fall 2022 for a previous year.

• Aug 21   Introduction  First Day PDF
• Aug 23   Spin and SG Experiments   Board 1   2
• Aug 26   Quantum State Vectors   Board 1   2   3
• Aug 28   Expectation Values and Matrix Representations   Board 1   2
• Aug 30   Rotation and Projection Operators   Board 1   2
• Sep 04   Matrix Representations of Operators   Board 1   2   3
• Sep 06   Change of Bases, Photon Polarization   Board 1   2
• Sep 09   3D Rotations Do Not Commute   Board 1   2   3
• Sep 11   Eigensates of Angular Momentum   Board 1   2
• Sep 16   Raising and Lowering Operators   Board 1   2
• Sep 18   Representations, Eigenstates, Uncertainty   Board 1   2 and Spin Review
• Sep 20   Time Evolution, Schrodinger Equation   Board 1   2
• Sep 23   Precession, Magnetic Resonance   Board 1   2
• Sep 25   Two Spin 1/2 Particles/Hyperfine Splitting   Board 1   2
• Sep 28   Addition of Spin Angular Momenta   Board 1   2
• Sep 29   Entanglement   Board 1   2
• Oct 04   Position States   Board 1   2
• Oct 07  Translation Operator and Linear Momentum   Board 1   2   3
• Oct 09   Momentum Space/Gaussian Wave Packet   Board 1   2
• Oct 14   Free Particle and Particle in a Box   Board 1   2
• Oct 16   Finite Square Well and Delta Function Potential   Board 1   2
• Oct 18   Scattering States   Board 1 &n
• Oct 21   Potential Barriers and Quantum Tunneling   Board 1   2
• Oct 23   Alpha Decay/Quantum Harmonic Oscillator   Board 1   2
• Oct 25   Harmonic Oscillator Wavefunctions   Board 1   2
• Oct 28   Comments, Time Dependence, Coherent States   Board 1   2
• Oct 30   Coherent State Time Evolution/3D States   Board 1   2
• Nov 01     Commutators and Two Body Translational Invariance   Board 1   2
• Nov 04     Coordinate Change and Rotational Invariance   Board 1   2
• Nov 06     Levi-Civita Symbol, Energy Eigenvalue Equation   Board 1   2
• Nov 08     Angular Momentum Representation in Spherical Coordinates   Board 1   2
• Nov 11     Spherical Harmonics   Board 1   2
• Nov 13     Hydrogen-Like Bound State Energy   Board 1   2
• Nov 15     Hydrogenic Wave Functions   Board 1   2
• Nov 18     Deuteron and Modeling Nuclei   Board 1   2
• Nov 20     Perturbation Theory and First Order Corrections   Board 1   2
• Nov 22     Nondegenerate Perturbation Theory and Second Order Corrections   Board 1
• Nov 25     The Stark Effect   Board 1   2
• Dec 1     Relativistic Perturbations, Spin-Orbit Coupling   Board 1   2
• Dec 4     Summary, Lamb Shift, Dirac Equation   Board 1