{"id":162,"date":"2006-04-03T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T20:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/03\/what-i-do-to-earn-a-living\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T20:40:04","slug":"what-i-do-to-earn-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/03\/what-i-do-to-earn-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Do to Earn a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering about the slow posting hereabouts, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m spending a lot of time on my classes. Having a day job sucks that way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m doing a senior-level elective class on Quantum Optics. This is very much an idiot experimentalist&#8217;s approach to the material, but if you&#8217;d like a look at what I&#8217;m doing, here are my notes from the first four lectures (scanned into large PDF files, which I&#8217;m posting to the class Blackboard site, but will upload here as well, at least for a couple of classes):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-ab5918fdd6bab808f8dfed216c103118-Notes class 1.pdf\">Lecture 1<\/a>: Dirac notation, state vectors, operators as matrices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2192c418a430f5e562e8a52547a5a9cd-Notes class 2.pdf\">Lecture 2<\/a>: Using state vectors to look at transitions, Fermi Golden Rule.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-4e97d9eddddf056d2893c4b96567b0a8-Notes class 3.pdf\">Lecture 3<\/a>: More transitions, Rabi oscillations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-7603dfa96565dd2a76e42d9e26130236-Notes class 4.pdf\">Lecture 4<\/a>: Einstein A &amp; B coefficients, photons, semi-classical approach to the photoelectric effect.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their utility as a study aid for my students is perhaps compromised by my bad habit of ad-libbing new material during class (mostly adding connective material between topics, but sometimes, I change the order of some topics). I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ll be at all interesting to people reading this (and I won&#8217;t promise that I&#8217;m going to post the notes for all my lectures), but if you&#8217;d like a glimpse into what I do for my day job, and how I do it, here you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering about the slow posting hereabouts, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m spending a lot of time on my classes. Having a day job sucks that way. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m doing a senior-level elective class on Quantum Optics. This is very much an idiot experimentalist&#8217;s approach to the material, but if you&#8217;d like a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/03\/what-i-do-to-earn-a-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Do to Earn a Living<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","category-quantum_optics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}