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Lecture presentation on wave mechanics, commuting Hermitian operators, eigenfunctions, the fifth postulate, position and probability, “collapse” of the wavefunction, deterministic versus stochastic, Schrodinger’s cat, Heisenberg’s indetermination principle, linewidth broadening, spherical coordinates, angular momentum, commutation relation, and spherical harmonics in real form.

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Fall 2007
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