PH425:   SPIN AND QUANTUM MEASUREMENT

Syllabus for Winter 2001

Course Information	Paradigms homepage	SPINS software	Last Update: 7/5/06
Key Problems	Spin reference equations	SPINS notes (DMc)	Current PH425 site

Date	Day	Topic	Reading (T=Townsend, L=Liboff)	Due Dates
Mon  2/5 Wngr 412	1	Stern-Gerlach Experiment	DMc 1.1 T 1.1, L 11.8
Tue  2/6 Wngr 275	2	Sequential SG experiments Computer Lab 1 (Weniger 412)	DMc 1.2 T 1.2
Wed  2/7 Wngr 275	3	Quantum State Vector, Probabilities, Bra and Ket notation	DMc 1.3 T 1.3, (L 4.3)
Thu  2/8 Wngr 412	4	Using the tools, Vector notation Computer Lab 2 (Weniger 412 )	DMc 1.4, 1.5 L 11.2
Fri  2/9 Wngr 275	5	Operators, Eigenvalue equations, Matrices, Diagonalization	DMc 2.1 T 1.5, 1.6, L 11.1, 11.6, (3.1)	Homework 1
Mon  2/12 Wngr 275	6	Measurement, Projection, Expectation values, commutators, uncertainty relations	DMc 2.2 - 2.4 T 1.4, (L 3.2, 3.3)
Tue 2/13 Wngr 412	7	Spin 1 example Computer Lab 3 (Weniger 412 )	DMc 2.5, 2.6 T 3.7
Wed 2/14 Wngr 275	8	Time Development, Schrödinger equation	DMc 3.1 L 3.4, 3.5
Thu  2/15 Wngr 412	9	Spin Precession Computer Lab 4 (Weniger 412 )	DMc 3.2 L 11.9
Fri  2/16 Wngr 275	10	Rabi oscillations	DMc 3.2 L 11.9	Homework 2
Mon  2/19 Wngr 275	11	Rabi oscillations	DMc 3.2 L 11.9
Tue  2/20 Wngr 412	12	Neutrino oscillations Computer Lab Finish (Weniger 412 )	DMc 3.3
Wed 2/21 Wngr 275	13	Magnetic resonance	DMc 3.4
Thu  2/22 Wngr 275	14	Philosophical Discussion, Interpretations, Paradoxes	DMc handouts EPR_CAT, EPR_summ L 2.9, 11.13
Fri  2/23 Wngr 275	15	Wrap up, review		Homework 3

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