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Instructor

• Course Site

Co-Instructor

Course Summary: Served as both a weekly research seminar (where students are exposed to areas of modern physics research conducted at Harvard) and a course in scientific communication (where students prepare and receive feedback on their own weekly presentations). (Instructor: Christopher Stubbs)

Teaching Notes:

• Full Course Notes
• Models, Physics, and Life Science (Assignment)
• Models, Physics, and Life Science (Solution)

Instructor

• Course Site

Teaching Assistant

Course Summary: Introduction to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: uncertainty relations; Schrödinger equation; Dirac notation; matrix mechanics; one-dimensional problems including particle in box, tunneling, and harmonic oscillator; angular momentum, hydrogen atom, spin, Pauli principle; time-independent perturbation theory; scattering. (Instructor: Matthew Reece)

Workshop Notes:

• Section 1: On Linear Algebra, Spin Kets, and Hermitian Operators
• Section 2: On Rotations, Commutations, and Change of Bases
• Section 3: On General Angular Momentum Operators
• Section 4: On Time Evolution
• Section 5: On Quantum Mechanics in One Dimension
• Section 5a: On the Rotating Wave Approximation
• Section 6: Solving Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation in One-Dimension
• Section 7: Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator
• Section 8: Coherent States and Quantum Mechanics Miscellany
• Section 9: Two particle systems and Schrödinger Equation in R^3
• Section 10: Radial Schrödinger Equation and Spherical Harmonics
• Section 11: Hydrogenic Atoms and Two-Particle States
• Section 12: Final Exam Review Problems

Motifs in Physics:

• 0. Introduction
• 1. Time and Dynamics
• 2. Oscillations, Superpositions, and Perturbations
• 3. Importance of Geometry
• 4. Indeterminacy and New Phenomena
• 5. Symmetry and Simplicity
• 6. Duality and Description
• 7. Effective Theory
• 8. Large Numbers and Emergence

Teaching Assistant

Course Summary: Serves as both a weekly research seminar (where students are exposed to areas of modern physics research conducted at Harvard) and a course in scientific communication (where students prepare and receive feedback on their own weekly presentations). (Instructors: Masahiro Morii and Christopher Stubbs)

Teaching Notes:

• Full Course Notes

Teaching Assistant

Course Summary: An intensive introduction to the themes and techniques in modern physics which begins by discussing the definition of a general state and ends with a unique perspective on quantum mechanics. (Instructors: Jacob Barandes)

Teaching Notes:

• Supplementary Notes 1 - Presenting Work
• Supplementary Notes 2 - Algebra Before Numbers
• Supplementary Notes 3 - Checking Your Work
• Supplementary Notes 4 - Derivations as Arguments
• Supplementary Notes 5 - Structure of Knowledge in Physics
• Supplementary Notes 6 - Problem Solving Outside the Classroom
• Section Problems/Solutions #1
• Section Problems/Solutions #2

Teaching Assistant

Course Summary: A mathematical overview of many of the major concepts in modern physics beginning from Newton's Laws and Lagrangian Dynamics and eventually moving on to Statistical Mechanics, Special Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. (Instructor: Hyun Youk)

Teaching Notes:

• Assignment/Solutions 0 ; Solutions 0 (Q2) ; Solutions 0 (Q2 Graphs)
• Assignment/Solution 1
• Assignment/Solution 2 ; Assignment/Solution 2 (Q8)
• Assignment/Solution 3 ; Solution 3 (2b)
• Assignment/Solution 4
• MITES-Quantum Physics
• MITES-Normal Modes