Topic outline

  • Week 10: Gauge invariance

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      Schwintenberg, Physics from Symmetry. File PDF

      Schwintenberg, Physics from Symmetry. Pages 91-113.

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      Anti-photon, paper to read for Thursday. File PDF
    • Week 10 lecture jupyter notebook File IPYNB

      Updated 20.3.2023: added some more notes.

      Updated 21.3.2023: added Monday's solutions and videos.

      Updated 22.3.2023: added stuff to Wednesday's and Thursday's lectures.

      Updated 28.3.2023: added Wednesday's and Thursday's solutions and videos.

    • Week 10 Prelecture assignment
    • Week 10, Monday quiz
    • Week 10, Wedneday quiz
    • Week 10, Thursday quiz
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      Fermi, Quantum theory of radiation File PDF
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      Glauber's Nobel lecture File PDF
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      Dirac, Principles of quantum mechanics File PDF

      Excerpt from Dirac's book. Pages 1, 11-24.

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      Friar and Fallieros, Diamagnetism, gauge transformations and sum rules. File PDF

      J. L. Friar and S. Fallieros, Diamagnetism, gauge transformations, and sum rules, American Journal of Physics 49, 847 (1981).

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