The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics

Oberlin College Physics 52

Fall 2021

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/StrangeQ/;
last updated 21 December 2021.

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Teacher: Dan Styer.

Class meetings are at Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 10:00 am.

Textbook.

Course syllabus.

Why would anyone want to take a course called "The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics"? What is quantum mechanics, anyway?

Classes.

Handouts

Averages (PDF). At the University of California in Berkley, women are less likely than men to be admitted to graduate school. Yet for every graduate department, women are more likely than men to be admitted. What??