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Dear Sir,
Just
now I went through your today's blog "Dosage and Frequency".
You have
very truly mentioned what your typical student will write about Electrodynamics
course. I would just like to add that I would have written the
following about Quantum Mechanics course (You didn't teach us
Electrodynamics!):
Quantum Mechanics - II --- Class notes (mine) + 16 problems (solutions checked by GPS) -- GPS.
I
must confess that I really never read any QM text book thoroughly in my
life. I work in the area of particle accelerators, where you mostly
depend on Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics (with little bit of QM
here and there). Therefore, I really never needed very high funda QM,
and read small parts here and there from different text-books for fun
only. For basics, I always relied on your notes (no text book).
There
was one incident, which I would like to share with you. During the final
year at IIT, in Nuclear Physics course, we were supposed to read about
the calculation of magnetic moment of deuteron described in Roy and
Nigam. I was finding the derivation in Roy and Nigam very difficult to
follow. I closed the book and tried to derive the stuff using the basics
that I learnt in your course. And I could, on my own, get the result
given in Roy and Nigam. Felt so happy! Who needed Roy and Nigam for that
derivation now! There were couple of more instances later like that,
which made me feel (may be falsely) that from your class notes, I have
acquired at least a good working level knowledge of QM.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Vinit.
(M. Sc. 1992, IIT KGP)
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