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What’s it all about, Lair-REE? Is it about receiving with simplicity all that happens to us? Or are Joel and Ethan Coen just messing with our minds (again) when they use that quote from Rashi as an epigraph at the beginning of A Serious Man, a movie that focuses on the troubles of Professor Lawrence “Larry” Gopnik, physicist and Jew? Larry seems to "receive with simplicity" and gets emotionally backhanded in a slapstick fashion every time. Key word: slapstick. Key word for this blog: phyziks.

22 May 2012

Baym's words of emphasis

Emphasized words (those in italics) in Chapter 1 of Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, by Gordon Baym:

Polaroid filter correspondence principle exactly probability complex basis superposition principle orthonormal basis probability amplitude transformation matrix eigenvector eigenvalue angular momentum spin operator for the photon definitely definitely expectation value eigenvalue eigenstate operator completeness relation probability amplitude superposition interference never indistinguishable probability amplitudes or amplitude amplitude exactly interference completely unpolarized or not mixed state mixed case pure case extraordinary ray ordinary ray optic axis transition amplitude transition probability change unitary.