Quotes from PHYS 372 Quantum Mechanics Winter Semester 2007

• Scientists are always trying to use bigger and bigger particles, eventually someone is going to try and shoot a baby
• I’m what you guys would call “Old School”
• …so we’ve become accustomed to using h-bar. I’m not sure if this is partly because we would all rather be drinking
• You just gave two solutions which are not mutually orthogonal so I can’t say yes or no
• ^A+ shouldn’t be anything mysterious
• It’s not a little pain, it’s a big pain.
• When I was in school I didn’t like it when people called the sines and cosines and logs and polynomials the “elementary functions” because I thought they were pretty tough. Now that I have studied Hermite Polynomials and Legendre polynomials I can certainly understand why they are called elementary
• Sorry, I will try to write louder
• How can something possibly be bound by something that it cannot even feel?
• You’re going to get some baby Gaussians Trailing after the big momma Gaussian
• This quantum mechanics stuff is really smart, it’s going to sit and wait to see if I’m going to flick the switch.
• Quantum mechanics is great, I hope you’re going to teach your children about it
• The beauty of Linear algebra is that you can do an example and still keep it completely abstract.
• I don’t know how to explain it you just need to treat bras differently than kets.