• See a sample syllabus of how we order these materials.
• Tips on how to sequence activities with lecture and class discussion.
• Textbook: We have written a textbook, Paradigms in Physics:Quantum Mechanics, that reflects the way we teach the subject. The quantum activities are also organized by textbook chapter.

• Projection Operators
• Matrix Representation of Spin Operators
• Operators and Functions

• Eigenstates of a Particle Confined to a Ring
• Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function
• Finding Legendre Coefficients
• Harmonic Oscillator Basis States

• Particle Confined to a Ring
• Particle Confined to a Sphere
• Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics
• Radial Wavefunctions
• Hydrogen Probability Densities

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

• Solving the Energy Eigenvalue Equation for the Finite Well

• Quantum Time Evolution
• Time Evolution of Infinite Well Solutions
• Time Evolution of a Gaussian Wave Packet
• Time Evolution of Harmonic Oscillator States

• System of Two Spin-1/2 Particles
• Zeeman Perturbation Matrices in the Coupled Basis