• Prerequisite Ideas
• Introduction to the course (Lecture, 15 minutes)
• Quantum Postulates (Small Whiteboard Activity, 5 minutes)
• Discussion of Historic Stern-Gerlach Experiment (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Components of the SG Experiment (Small Whiteboard Activity, 5 minutes)
• Discussion of Intrinsic Spin (Lecture, 15 minutes)
• Homework
• Supplemental Materials

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Introduction to statistics (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Dice (Small Group Activity, 20 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Introduction to Stern Gerlach simulation (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• SPINS Lab 1 (Small Group Activity, 60 minutes)
• Outcome from Successive Stern-Gerlach Devices (Lecture, 40 minutes)
• Guessing forms for spin along x in terms of z (Small Whiteboard Activity, 5 minutes)
• State Formalism (Small Group Activity, 15 minutes)
• Building Quantum State Formalism (Lecture, 40 minutes)
• Calculating 'crossed polarizers' effect (Small Group Activity, 15 minutes)

• SPINS Lab 2 (Small Group Activity, 60 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Spin N systems (Lecture, 20 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Operators (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Matrix Representation of Spin Operators (Small Group Activity, 45 minutes)
• Spin projections in a general direction (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• Projection Operators (Small Group Activity, XX minutes)
• Here is a resource for the labs and the operator activity - a pdf file of a talk regarding these specific sequences: nwaps_oct2010.pdf
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Expectation Value and Standard Deviation (Lecture, 20 minutes)
• Commutation and Uncertainty (Lecture, 20 minutes)
• Supplemental Materials
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Spin 1 systems (Lecture, 10 minutes)
• SPINS Lab 3 (Small Group Activity, 100 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• The $S$ and $S^2$ Vectors (Lecture, 20 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Schrodinger equation (Lecture, 60 minutes)
• Time Evolution Introduction (Small Group Activity, 20 minutes)
• Visualizing Complex Time Dependence for Spin 1/2 Systems (Kinesthetic Activity, XX minutes)
• Energy eigenvalues and eigenstates (Lecture, 60 minutes)
• Quantum Time Evolution (Small Group Activity, 20 minutes)
• Homework

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Spin Precession (Lecture, 80 minutes)
• Time-dependent spin vector (Small Group Activity, 40 minutes)
• SPINS Lab 4 (Small Group Activity, 100 minutes)
• Supplemental Materials
• Homework

Optional topic - can be skipped

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Neutrino Oscillation (Lecture, 30 minutes)
• Neutrino Oscillations (Small Group Activity, 20 minutes)
• Homework

Optional topic - can be skipped

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Here are slides that can be used for this topic (Lecture, 40 minutes): nmr.pdf
• Appropriate homework problems can be chosen from the end of Chapter 3, none explicitly address this topic

Optional topics - can be skipped

(What we have done from 2008-2010 is have a guest lecturer speak on one of the following topics)

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Here is a scan of the lecture notes from the invited guest lecturer (Lecture, 60 minutes): 425_guest_lecture.pdf
• There have not been homework problems designed for this guest lecture

• Prerequisite Ideas
• Here are slides addressing this topic (Lecture, 60 minutes): bells_inequality.pdf
• Additional reading of interest: a paper giving an Sherlock Holmes-type analogy to Bell's theorem bells_theorem.pdf
• Appropriate homework problems are at the end of Chapter 4

• Prerequisite Ideas
• There are no current lecture notes for this topic, addressed in chapter 4 (Lecture, 60 minutes)
• Here are slides for the related topic of Quantum Cryptography: quantum_cryptography.pdf
• Appropriate homework problems are at the end of Chapter 4