Lecture Notes and handouts: (Click, or just scroll down)
This is not the page for daily class powerpoints (Which include clicker questions and much more!)
(These are more fleshed out lecture notes)
- My lecture notes
- Other faculty's lecture notes
- Weekly Tutorials: if you can't make the Friday activity- you can always see them here.
- Weekly Preflights: These are available Friday through Monday, but after that, you can still look at old ones here.
- Visit our piazza site where you can ask and answer questions any time.
1) My lecture notes. Theres are my "chatty" summaries following (closely) the McIntyre text. I may not keep this up all term.
However, my daily powerpoints will also serve as (abbreviated) lecture notes!
| Introduction (pdf, SJP, brief motivation, and overview. Let me know if this document is helpful. I won't be covering it explicitly in lecture, this is background for the course.) |
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| Chapter 1 notes (pdf, SJP summary of McIntyre) |
| Chapter 2 notes (pdf, SJP, scanned handwritten notes from here on out) |
| Chapter 3 notes |
| Chapter 4 notes with a few more "Schrodinger cat" details here. |
| From here on, my powerpoints will contain all my lecture notes, including formulas and examples. You might also look at my course website from 2008, and/or check out Griffiths' textbook if you want to see more worked examples - from here on, our course largely matches all standard QM texts! |
| Here are Chapter 6 notes (from a few years ago, some some refs to Griffiths, but I will follow these pretty much. It matches McIntyre quite well. ) |
| Here are Chapter 7 and 8 notes (from a few years ago. So, there are some subtle differences in emphasis, but I will again follow these pretty much. It matches McIntyre quite well. ) |
Let me know right away if you spot any more serious typos in the notes! Email Steven.Pollock at colorado.edu. Thanks!
2) Other faculty lecture notes: If you want an alternative perspective on the same material:
- Here is my course website from 2008. Back then, we used Griffiths' text, so we covered spatial wave functions FIRST, and barely got to spins (!) So, later in the term, in Chapter 5, when we start covering spatial wave functions, these notes may prove more useful to you.
Visit our piazza site where you can ask and answer questions any time.
Also see our "Links" tab for more ideas, and let me know if you find other resources that seem worthwhile to add!
(Other materials removed after end of term)