Introduction to String Theory

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Building Groups From Other Groups .

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The Integers Modulo n Under + and x .

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Spin 1 Eigenvectors .

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MVC Architecture

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Quantum Computing

Density Operators and Mixed States .

Entangled States .

The Qubit .

Quantum Field Theory

Creation and Annihilation Operators

Field Operators for Bosons and Fermions

Lagrangians in Quantum Field Theory

Path Integral Formulation

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Quantum Mechanics

Bohr Atom

Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients .

Commutators

Dyson Series

Electron Orbital Angular Momentum and Spin

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Ladder Operators .

Multi Electron Wavefunctions .

Pauli Spin Matrices

Photoelectric Effect .

Position and Momentum States .

Probability Current

Schrodinger Equation for Hydrogen Atom .

Schrodinger Wave Equation

Spin 1/2 Eigenvectors

The Differential Operator

The Essential Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics

The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator .

The Schrodinger, Heisenberg and Dirac Pictures

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Time Independent Perturbation Theory

Wavepackets

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Solid State Electronics

Band Theory of Solids .

Fermi-Dirac Statistics .

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors .

The MOSFET

The P-N Junction

Special Relativity

4-vectors .

Electromagnetic (Faraday) Tensor .

Energy and Momentum in Special Relativity, E = mc² .

Invariance of the Velocity of Light .

Lorentz Invariance .

Lorentz Transform .

Lorentz Transformation of the EM Field .

Newton versus Einstein

Spinors - Part 1 .

Spinors - Part 2 .

The Continuity Equation .

The Lorentz Group .

Statistical Mechanics

Entropy and the Partition Function

The Harmonic Oscillator

The Ideal Gas

String Theory

Bosonic Strings

Extra Dimensions

Introduction to String Theory

Kaluza-Klein Compactification of Closed Strings

Strings in Curved Spacetime

Toroidal Compactification

Superconductivity

Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer Theory

BCS Theory

Cooper Pairs

Introduction to Superconductivity .

Superconductivity (Lectures 1 - 10)

Superconductivity (Lectures 11 - 20)

Supersymmetry (SUSY) and Grand Unified Theory (GUT)

Chiral Superfields

Generators of a Supergroup

Grassmann Numbers

Introduction to Supersymmetry

The Gauge Hierarchy Problem

The Standard Model

Electroweak Unification (Glashow-Weinberg-Salam)

Gauge Theories (Yang-Mills)

Gravitational Force and the Planck Scale

Introduction to the Standard Model

Isospin, Hypercharge, Weak Isospin and Weak Hypercharge

Quantum Flavordynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics

Special Unitary Groups and the Standard Model - Part 1 .

Special Unitary Groups and the Standard Model - Part 2

Special Unitary Groups and the Standard Model - Part 3 .

Standard Model Lagrangian

The Higgs Mechanism

The Nature of the Weak Interaction

Topology

Units, Constants and Useful Formulas

Constants

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