24 February 2006

To do during the weekend

This is a to do list of things I should try to accomplish during the weekend.
  1. Work on Seminar slides.
  2. Buy the SPS's candies.
  3. Read stuff for AQM.
  4. Look for pendulum's detail.
  5. Work on MATLAB problems.
  6. Read stuff for SPS show.

22 February 2006

It's been a while...

... but have been pretty busy. Those complex phases were the result of an awful mistake. It was the units of my cross section. Now I know what a barn (b) is. Anyways, Coulomb potential in the modified Klein Gordon equation is next...

(Had a really cool idea about curved space and electric charge... More on that later.)

20 February 2006

Groove Salad

Wow. I have spent three hours, non-stop, writing up my Quantum Mechanics 2 problems in clean paper. It has been made a short time thanks to SomaFM's Groove Salad. It is an Internet radio station, like they say, "a nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves". So far the only problem that I am doubtful is one about partial wave’s phases. I am getting complex numbers for them. Maybe my approximations are incorrect, or these complex numbers can have some physical interpretation. I guess after I finish with QM 2 I will start writing up the problems for Advanced Quantum Mechanics. These ones are only three. Again, I have a doubt on one of them: What the hell does "Center of Mass Energy" means?

19 February 2006

Gauge Theories

Today I learned a bit about gauge theories. All of a sudden, Electromagnetism seems more beatiful than ever. I like the way theoretical physics is being built. Let's see if my new knowledge helps me with the Advance Quantum Mechanics Problem Sheet...

18 February 2006

QMII

So the problems are not that bad. Two almost done, two to go. I have not started with AQM yet...

Man that class is weird. I guess theoretical courses are like that. The professor has gone through lots of material very quiclky. We are going to finnish all the Klein-Gordon Equation theory now and move on to the Dirac Equation. The idea is pretty simple: Negative energy states come up because of the equation representing the square of energy. Then we associate this states with antiparticles. I guess I should do my homework. I cannot wait to learn about String Theory and Quantum Field Theory.