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97 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Weds April 14: This is the final tutorial spent taking up part of the midterm and answering questions. Good luck with your exams! -
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104 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 28: This lecture applies the framework of relativistic quantum fields to the simplest case of a spinless particle and constructs the Klein Gordon… -
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89 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 27: This lecture describes the logic that determines which fields can be used to represent particles of different spins, and describes the… -
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75 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 26: This lecture works through how Poincare generators (4-momentum and the angular momentum tensor) transform in quantum relativity. A sketch is… -
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63 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 25: This lecture finishes the general review of special relativity in terms of 4-vectors and reviews the treatment of symmetry in quantum mechanics. -
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66 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 24: This lecture summarizes some aspects of special relativity, including its formulation in terms of the Lorentz group. -
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47 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 23: This lecture starts with a summary of renormalization for Casimir energy in a waveguide, and closes with the start of a summary of Special… -
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52 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 22: This lecture recaps the previous ones and completes the interactions of a nonrelativistic charged particle to include the Coulomb interaction. -
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45 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 21: This lecture describes how the electromagnetic vector potential (ie photons) couple to nonrelativistic charged particles, constructing the… -
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40 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 20: This lecture describes how to construct interactions between electromagnetic fields and the Schrodinger fields that describe slowly moving… -
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61 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 19: This lecture evaluates the Casimir energy for the vacuum fluctuations of a field between two plates on which the field vanishes, showing that it… -
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45 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 18: This lecture continues the previous one on photons in electromagnetism, and provides a sermon about UV and IR divergences and why you can use… -
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74 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 17: This lecture continues the discussion of quantizing the electromagnetic fields and shows how field energy and momentum can be written in terms… -
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87 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 16: This lecture provides a whirlwind review of Maxwell's equations and their solutions in terms of electromagnetic waves. This allows an… -
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71 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 15: This lecture describes the leading corrections to the classical BEC, using a Bogoliubov transformation to identify the spectrum of quasiparticle… -
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49 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 14: This lecture continues the discussion of Bose Einstein condensation and shows how a semiclassical analysis can allow a calculation of the… -
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76 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 12: This lecture summarizes the position space formalism of the previous lecture and introduces simple self-interactions. -
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46 plays 0Physics 4Q03 Lecture 13: This lecture reviews how to set up averages with statistical mechanics, translating the grand canonical ensemble into the language of occupation… -
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73 plays 04Q03 Lecture 11; This lecture argues why the Hamiltonian should arise as a local function in space, and this is used to motivate the definition of position-space fields.… -
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88 plays 04Q03 Lecture 10: This lecture computes the energy shift of a particle due to its interaction with another, introducing ultraviolet divergences and the concept of…
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