Quantum I Tutorials

Over the last four semesters, we have used several different tutorials from the University of Washington. Please contact Peter Shaffer (shaffer@phys.washington.edu) if you are interested in those materials. They are still under development, and not generally available to any faculty, but you might discuss with UW if you might be a "pilot site", as we did.

We have written seven tutorial-like exercises which are included in a subfolder. Forgive our generous usage of the word "tutorials", our materials are by no means at the level of research-based activities as the University of Washington's Tutorials). Some of these exercises were written using Microsoft Word. The ones written in LaTeX files are each in a subfolder which includes the LaTeX source, a generated PDF document, and the figure files necessary to rebuild the tutorial. There is a pre-test for each of these tutorials included in their own subfolder.

Our Tutorials were run once a week for about an hour (sometimes longer). They were optional and while attendance varied, over the course of the term, a large fraction of the students attended at least one. They were widely praised in end-of-term evaluations as being helpful and fun, so we think it would be worth devoting more effort into researching these, and developing them systematically. For the last three semesters, the tutorials have been offered as an optional one-credit co-seminar which helps with scheduling.

The CU tutorials are:

Because the curriculum varies from semester to semester, so do the tutorials which are run each semester. As an aid in planning, the tutorial schedule for the last four semesters are included in this folder.

Steven.Pollock@colorado.edu or Steven.Goldhaber@colorado.edu

 

 

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