This is an archival listing of my notes from 2010.


Jan 11, 2011 Assemble all my PHY356H1F (UofT Quantum Mechanics I) notes, problems, and lecture notes into one collection.

Jan 9, 2011 A problem on spherical harmonics.

Jan 4, 2011 Some worked problems from old PHY356 exams.
Some worked problems from old PHY356 exams.

Dec 9, 2010 Notes for Desai Chapter 26.
Notes for Desai Chapter 26.

Dec 7, 2010 PHY356F lecture notes.
PHY356F lecture notes.

Nov 25, 2010 PHY356 Problem Set 5.
PHY356 Problem Set 5.

Nov 24, 2010 Hydrogen like atom, and Laguerre polynomials.
Playing with the math of Laguerre polynomials for the Hydrogen like atom.

Nov 20, 2010 Desai Chapter 10 notes and problems.
Desai Chapter 10 notes and problems.

Nov 20, 2010 Desai Chapter 10 notes and problems.
Desai Chapter 10 notes and problems.

Nov 19, 2010 Desai Chapter 9 notes and problems.
Desai Chapter 9 notes and problems.

Nov 16, 2010 PHY356 Problem Set 4.
PHY356 Problem Set 4.

Oct 31, 2010 Believed to be typos in Desai's QM Text
Believed typos, some confirmed, in Desai's QM book.

Oct 30, 2010 Multivector commutators and Lorentz boosts.
Use of commutator and anticommutator to find components of a multivector that are effected by a Lorentz boost. Utilize this to boost the electrodynamic field bivector, and show how a small velocity introduction perpendicular to the a electrostatics field results in a specific magnetic field. ie. consider the magnetic field seen by the electron as it orbits a proton.

Oct 23, 2010 PHY356 Problem Set III.
My submission for problem set III.

Oct 22, 2010 Classical Electrodynamic gauge interaction.
Momentum and Energy transformation to derive Lorentz force law from a free particle Hamiltonian.

Oct 20, 2010 Derivation of the spherical polar Laplacian
A derivation of the spherical polar Laplacian.

Oct 10, 2010 Notes and problems for Desai chapter IV.
Chapter IV Notes and problems for Desai's "Quantum Mechanics and Introductory Field Theory" text.

Oct 7, 2010 PHY356 Problem Set I.
A couple problems from my QM1 course.

Oct 1, 2010 Notes and problems for Desai chapter III.
Chapter III Notes and problems for Desai's "Quantum Mechanics and Introductory Field Theory" text.

Sept 27, 2010 Unitary exponential sandwich
Unitary transformation using anticommutators.

Sept 19, 2010 Desai Chapter II notes and problems.
Chapter II Notes and problems for Desai's "Quantum Mechanics and Introductory Field Theory" text.

July 27, 2010 Rotations using matrix exponentials
Calculating the exponential form for a unitary operator. A unitary operator can be expressed as the exponential of a Hermitian operator. Show how this can be calculated for the matrix representation of an operator. Explicitly calculate this matrix for a plane rotionation yields one of the Pauli spin matrices. While not unitary, the same procedure can be used to calculate such a rotation like angle for a Lorentz boost, and we also find that the result can be expressed in terms of one of the Pauli spin matrices.

July 23, 2010 Dirac Notation Ponderings.
Chapter 1 solutions and some associated notes.

June 25, 2010 More problems from Liboff chapter 4
Liboff problems 4.11, 4.12, 4.14

June 19, 2010 Hoop and spring oscillator problem.
A linear appromation to a hoop and spring problem.

May 31, 2010 Infinite square well wavefunction.
A QM problem from Liboff chapter 4.

May 30, 2010 On commutation of exponentials
Show that commutation of exponentials occurs if exponentiated terms also commute.

May 29, 2010 Fourier transformation of the Pauli QED wave equation (Take I).
Unsuccessful attempt to find a solution to the Pauli QM Hamiltonian using Fourier transforms. Also try to figure out the notation from the Feynman book where I saw this.

May 28, 2010 Errata for Feynman's Quantum Electrodynamics (Addison-Wesley)?
My collection of errata notes for some Feynman lecture notes on QED compiled by a student.

May 23, 2010 Effect of sinusoid operators
Liboff, problem 3.19.

May 23, 2010 Time evolution of some wave functions
Liboff, problem 3.14.

May 15, 2010 Center of mass of a toroidal segment.
Calculate the volume element for a toroidal segment, and then the center of mass. This is a nice application of bivector rotation exponentials.

Mar 7, 2010 Newton's method for intersection of curves in a plane.
Refresh my memory on Newton's method. Then take the same idea and apply it to finding the intersection of two arbitrary curves in a plane. This provides a nice example for the use of the wedge product in linear system solutions. Curiously, the more general result for the iteration of an intersection estimate is tidier and prettier than that of a curve with a line.

Mar 3, 2010 Notes on Goldstein's Routh's procedure.
Puzzle through Routh's procedure as outlined in Goldstein.

Feb 19, 2010 1D forced harmonic oscillator. Quick solution of non-homogeneous problem.
Solve the one dimensional harmonic oscillator problem using matrix methods.

Jan 1, 2010 Integrating the equation of motion for a one dimensional problem.
Solve for time for an arbitary one dimensional potential.