INSTRUCTORS:
Richard Scalettar,
Shirley Chiang,
Gary Slizeski
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
WRITING AND COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES
COMPUTING GUIDES:
NOTES
STUDENT MOVIES !!!
SOME EXTRA PROGRAMMING TASKS AND NOTES:
QUANTUM PHYSICS LECTURES AND READING:
The laws that govern the motion of small objects, for example electrons
in a solid, are fundamentally different from the familiar laws that
Newton discovered. Not only are they different, but they are
often counterintuitive. One cannot know the precise location of
objects! Certain configurations are forbidden- a spinning molecule
can have some angular orientations but not others! Only restricted
sets of energy levels are allowed.
To understand modern electronics we need to master these unfamiliar
and strange laws and their consequences. This is the goal of our
cluster.
There are some technical things we need to learn along the way:
the linux operating system of the computers we will be using and
how to write programs in C. We won't assume students know too much
about these things, so we'll do a lot of simple, but interesting
warm-up programs before tackling our quantum physics projects.
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Where should I be?
Learning how science and research are presented.
The vi editor
The linux operating system
Introduction to xmgrace
Modulo, even/odd, primes and NIM
The Fibonacci Numbers
CHAOS!
Collatz Conjecture
Distance Between a Point and a Line
Molecular Dynamics: Oscillations
Molecular Dynamics: Satellite Motion
Gambler's Ruin
The Locker Problem
Quantum 1D simulation applet developed for a
quantum chemistry course at Harvard
Three lectures by Hans Bethe (my sister's namesake!)
Letter from Bethe to Sommerfeld on why he wanted to stay in the US after
WWII
Wikipedia's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics Made Easy
The Earth as a computer
Extra solar planets (background for 3-body Kepler challenge)