===== Quantum Mechanics Activities =====

These quantum mechanics activities are ordered by chapters of the textbook
[[texts:quantumbook:start|Paradigms in Physics:Quantum Mechanics]].  You can
also find the QM activities organized by [[topic:quantum|concepts]].

==== Chapter 1: Stern-Gerlach Experiments ====

SPINS is a java program that simulates Stern-Gerlach experiments with spin 1/2
and spin 1 particles.  The software runs on all platforms and can be
downloaded from
[[http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~mcintyre/ph425/spins/index.html|
	the SPINS home page]].

  * [[courses:activities:spact:spspin1|
	SPINS Lab 1]]
  * [[courses:activities:spact:spspin2|
	SPINS Lab 2]]

==== Chapter 2: Operators and Measurement ====

  * [[courses:activities:spact:spspin3|
	SPINS Lab 3]]
  * [[courses:activities:spact:spprojectionoperators|
	Projection Operators]]
  * [[courses:activities:spact:spspinoperators|
	Matrix Representation of Spin Operators]]

==== Chapter 3: Schrödinger Time Evolution ====

  * [[courses:activities:spact:spspin4|
	SPINS Lab 4]]
  * [[courses:activities:spact:spqmevolution|
	Quantum Time Evolution]]

==== Chapter 4: Quantum Spookiness ====

==== Chapter 5: Quantized Energies: Particle in a Box ====

  * [[courses:activities:wvact:wvoperatorfunc|
	 Operators and Functions]]  
  * [[courses:activities:wvact:wvfinitewell|
	 Solving the Energy Eigenvalue Equation for the Finite Well]]
  * [[courses:activities:wvact:wvtimeinfwell|
	 Time Evolution of Infinite Well Solutions]]

==== Chapter 6: Unbound States ====

  * [[courses:activities:wvact:wvgausswavepacket|
	 Time Evolution of a Gaussian Wave Packet]]

==== Chapter 7: Angular Momentum ====

  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfqmringgroup|
	Eigenstates of a Particle Confined to a Ring]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfguessleg|
	Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cflegseries|
	Finding Legendre Coefficients]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfqmring|
	Particle Confined to a Ring]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfqmsphere|
	Particle Confined to a Sphere]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfylmcombo|
	Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics]]

==== Chapter 8: Hydrogen Atom ====

  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfradialwavefunc|
	Radial Wavefunctions]]
  * [[courses:activities:cfact:cfhydrogenvis|
	Hydrogen Probability Densities]]

==== Chapter 9: Harmonic Oscillator ====

  * [[courses:activities:qmact:qmshobasis|
	Harmonic Oscillator Basis States]]
  * [[courses:activities:qmact:qmtimesho|
	Time Evolution of Harmonic Oscillator States]]

==== Chapter 10: Perturbation Theory ====

==== Chapter 11: Hyperfine Structure and the Addition of Angular Momentum ====

  * [[courses:activities:qmact:qmtwospin|
	 System of Two Spin-1/2 Particles]]

==== Chapter 12: Perturbation of Hydrogen ====

  * [[courses:activities:qmact:qmzeemancoupled|
	 Zeeman Perturbation Matrices in the Coupled Basis]]

==== Chapter 13: Identical Particles ====

==== Chapter 14: Time Dependent Perturbation Theory ====

==== Chapter 15: Periodic Systems ====