Teaching quantum mechanics starting from Heisenberg

Speaker:
Erik Verlinde, UVA, Amsterdam.
Date:
Thursday 19th March 2009

In a recent first year course on quantum mechanics, I introduced the quantum formalism from the ideas along which Heisenberg developed matrix mechanics. A central role is played here by the correspondence principle. The Schrodinger equation and Hilbert spaces enter at a second stage.


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