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• Rationale and Tips for Using Computational Activities

• Getting Started with Maple

• Visualizing Electrostatic Potentials

• Orbits and Effective Potential
• Polar Plots of Conic Sections
• Exploring the Effective Potential

• Particle Confined to a Ring
• Particle Confined to a Sphere
• Hydrogen Probability Densities
• Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function
• Finding Legendre Coefficients
• Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics
• Radial Wavefunctions

• Guessing the Fourier Expansion of a Function

• Approximating Functions with a Power Series
• Visualizing Gradient
• Visualizing Flux
• Visualizing Divergence
• Visualizing Curl

These labs all use a java program called SPINS that simulates Stern-Gerlach experiments with spin 1/2 and spin 1 particles. The software runs on all platforms and can be downloaded from the SPINS home page.

• SPINS Lab 1
• SPINS Lab 2
• SPINS Lab 3
• SPINS Lab 4

The Density Matrix - A simulation using SPINSdensitymatrixlab.pdf

• Particle Confined to a Ring
• Particle Confined to a Sphere
• Hydrogen Atom
• Earth Hockey