These quantum mechanics activities are ordered by chapters of the textbook Paradigms in Physics:Quantum Mechanics. You can also find the QM activities organized by concepts.

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 the SPINS home page.

• SPINS Lab 1
• SPINS Lab 2

• SPINS Lab 3
• Projection Operators
• Matrix Representation of Spin Operators

• SPINS Lab 4
• Quantum Time Evolution

• Operators and Functions
• Solving the Energy Eigenvalue Equation for the Finite Well
• Time Evolution of Infinite Well Solutions

• Time Evolution of a Gaussian Wave Packet

• Eigenstates of a Particle Confined to a Ring
• Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function
• Finding Legendre Coefficients
• Particle Confined to a Ring
• Particle Confined to a Sphere
• Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics

• Radial Wavefunctions
• Hydrogen Probability Densities

• Harmonic Oscillator Basis States
• Time Evolution of Harmonic Oscillator States

• System of Two Spin-1/2 Particles

• Zeeman Perturbation Matrices in the Coupled Basis