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MIT 8.05 Quantum Physics II

Barton Zwiebach (MIT OpenCourseWare)

Rebuilds quantum mechanics in the abstract state-space formalism, showing that spin and angular momentum follow from symmetry rather than from any picture of a spinning object.

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MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics IBarton Zwiebach (MIT OpenCourseWare), 2016Builds quantum mechanics from the experiments that forced it, keeping the wavefunction's interpretation an open question rather than settling it by assertion.

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MIT 8.06 Quantum Physics IIIBarton Zwiebach (MIT OpenCourseWare), 2018Develops time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, the WKB approximation and scattering as the tools for handling the quantum systems that have no exact solution.

Filed under Quantum Mechanics in Physics.