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Assignments

You will have weekly homework assignments, which will sometimes involve 2-3 pages of writing (1 page = 300 words), and will sometimes take the form of problem sets. Don't even think about turning them in late, unless you have some massively good excuse that you tell me well ahead of time; I won't accept them. There will be 12 weekly assignments in all; you are required to do 10 (your choice, mostly; in a few cases the weekly assignment will be non-optional). If you do more, I will pick the ten best in determining your grade. You are free to revise any of the writing assignments-provided you notify me right away that you want to do so, and turn in the revision no more than two weeks after the given assignment was handed back to you. Occasionally, I may replace the weekly assignment by an in-class quiz; the probability that I will do so will be inversely proportional to my degree of confidence that everyone is doing the reading. There is no final exam, and no mid-term.


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4Overview of Some Odd PhenomenaAssignment 1 (PDF)
5-6The Mathematical Formalism and Its Orthodox InterpretationAssignment 2 (PDF)

Assignment 3 (PDF)
9-16The Measurement Problem and Attempted Solutions

Assignment 4 (PDF)

Assignment 5 (PDF)

Assignment 6 (PDF)

Assignment 7 (PDF)

Assignment 8 (PDF)

17-19Hidden Variables and Proofs of Their ImpossibilityAssignment 9 (PDF)
20-22Quantum ExtravagancesAssignment 10 (PDF)
23-26Composition and Identical ParticlesAssignment 11 (PDF)

Assignment 12 (PDF)
 


Handouts


Handout 1: The two-path experiment (PDF)

Handout 2: Bell's Inequalities (PDF)

Handout 3: Derivation of the Turbo Bell's Inequality (less formally known as the Clauser-Horne-Holt-Shimony inequality) (PDF)

Handout 4: Vector spaces and the statistical algorithm (PDF)

Handout 5: The statistical algorithm refined, the uncertainty principle, Schrödinger's Equation, states of multi-particle systems (PDF)

Handout 6: Basic number theory stuff, used in Shor's algorithm for quantum-computing the factors of an integer (PDF)


 








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