Quantum Theory schedule

2023 Schedule for Quantum Theory


9 January - 13 January	Stern-Gerlach experiments [1.1]
16 January - 20 January Monday 16 Martin Luther King study day - no daytime classes (evening classes meet) Tuesday 17 Drop-Add period ends 5:00 pm Wednesday 18 Asterisky "" can mean 'complex conjugate' or 'multiply'	Quantum State Vectors [1.2] Probability and measurement variation
23 January - 27 January	Probability and Quantum measurement [1.4] More than 2 states [1.5] Lab 1
30 January - 3 February Saturday 4 Science Olympiad	Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues [2.1] Operators and Matrices [2.2]
6 February - 10 February	Expectations and uncertainties [2.3]
13 February - 17 February	Energy and the Hamiltonian operator [3.1] Quiz 1 and Exam 1 Quantum Key Distribution
20 February - 24 February Tuesday 21 Schedule your midterm oral exam with me.	Time-dependent Schroedinger equation [3.2] Time-dependent probabilities: Spin precession [3.3] Neutrino oscillations
27 February - 3 March Monday 27 Midterm break (all week)
6 March - 10 March Friday 10 Goshen Conference on Religion & Science through March 12.	the EPR paradox [4.1] Quantum description of EPR [4.2] Bell's Inequality [4.3]
13 March - 17 March Thursday 16 Academic advising begins Friday 17 Last day to "W"ithdraw	Particles and Wave functions [5.1] Schroedinger equation [5.2] Normalization, time dependence [5.3]
20 March - 24 March	Infinite square well [5.4]
27 March - 31 March	Momentum / Uncertainty [5.5] Sketching solutions - intro to finite well [5.6] Finite square well [5.7]
3 April - 7 April Friday 7 Good Friday (no class)	Dirac delta function [5.8] Delta function potential [5.8dv]
10 April - 14 April Sunday 9 Easter Wednesday 12 Academic Symposium - no daytime classes	Free particle [6.1]
17 April - 21 April Friday 21 Last day of classes Please fill out a GC Course Evaluation.	Phase and group velocity Final exam
24 April - 28 April Monday 24 Reading day Tuesday 25 Exam week starts