Physics 381 - Writing in Physics
Writing Styles in Physics
Some writing rules (Examples of good and bad science writing)
Verbal and Mathematical Approaches to Physics
Course Content: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (QM) (Rules of Quantum Mechanics, Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation (CI)...)
Writing Assignment I: Newspaper Article about a phenomenon characteristic of QM (Superposition, The Double-Slit Experiment)
Writing Assignment 2: Proposal involving a modern two-slit experiment (Spin and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment, Polarization, Entangled States, Collapse of the Wave Function in CI)
Schroedinger's Cat (Wigner's Friend, The EPR Gedanken Experiment, Bohm's Spin version of EPR, Mermin's explanation of EPR, Hidden Variables, Bell's Inequality,The Death of Local Realism)
and Three Other Such Writing Assignments
Course Information
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Undergraduate |
Semester Offered: |
Fall |
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3 |
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| Prerequisite: |
PHYSIC 284 |
| Co-requisite: |
PHYSIC 424 |
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Current Semester (Fall 2009)
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1 |
Instructor: |
Rabin
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| Times: |
TuTh 11:15-12:30 |
Location: |
HASA 109 |
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