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Started studying the addition of angular momentum using the lowering operator method. Introduced direct sums and direct products of Hilbert spaces for the coupled and uncoupled bases, respectively.

Completed Euler angles, started considering rotation operators for general values of j.

Group theory of rotations: SO(3) versus SU(2). Started Euler angles.

Finished slides on "What is a spin?"

Mixed states and the density operator. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021

Hyperfine splitting. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021

The Zeeman effect. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021

Finished L4IdenticalParticles and started L5IdenticalParticlesExchangeInteraction

Physics 4Q03 Lecture 27: This lecture describes the logic that determines which fields can be used to represent particles of different spins, and describes the requirement of microcausality and why…

Worked through an example of Berry's phase: a spin in a rotating magnetic field (L20BerryPhase)

Finished the slides on the adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)

Derived 1st order time-dependent perturbation theory (L16T_dep_PT_part1)

Started time-dependent perturbation theory (L16T_dep_PT_part1)

Finished Fine structure (L9Fine_structure)

Finished the set of slides on Operators (covered the rotation operator, Pauli spin matrices, the Schrodinger equation)

Finished slides L8DegeneratePerturbationTheory and started applications of perturbation theory in atomic physics (fine structure)

Covered the exchange interaction and began discussion of quantum statistical mechanics

Finished class communication theory and started QI6_Spins_and_Photons

Covered L4Identical particles

Finished addition of angular momentum. Started L4identical particles.

Operator approach to angular momentum. Started addition of angular momentum.

Went through 2nd half of "What is a Quantum Spin" slides

An introduction to the physics of magnetic resonance imaging.