Course Start Date & Basic Pre-Requisites
Dear friends,
Thanks for subscribing to our upcoming quantum formalism course. The vast majority (~87%) of those who took our survey want us to cover the foundational section as described here before jumping into the actual mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics.
The following is the structure for the foundational topics:
On Fridays, we'll send out study reference materials so that you can self-study on the specific topic to be covered ahead of time.
On Tuesdays (4pm BST/8AM PT), we'll host live lectures going through the essentials of that topic. Although the lectures will be available on YouTube after the sessions, we encourage you to attend the live lectures so you can have the opportunity to ask questions.
We chose the above structure as we understand that most of you have daily jobs and so sending the materials on Fridays would probably give you enough time to scan through the materials before live sessions. Likewise, having lectures on Tuesdays means you’ll have the content fresh enough in your heads to follow the live lectures.
Course Start Date
The earliest we can start, due to the summer holiday season, is on Friday the 21st of August. We'll host an opening Q&A session where we'll outline the course program before sending out the advance study materials for Week 1.
Another option is to start on Friday the 18th of September. To let us know which start date you prefer, please take this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYxon4ORj--AmBWEPhHtLcyZbpW-qGKrM8otjw8biF8WKVpg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Pre-Requisites
The vast majority of you are coming from some sort of university-level engineering & science background. So we'll assume that you will have some basic knowledge of complex numbers. This will save us time as normally the basics of complex numbers are covered at pre-university level. However, for those in need of a refresh, here are some useful resources that can help you get by:
The reason we're highlighting complex numbers is that the Hilbert spaces used in quantum mechanics are a special class of complex vector spaces.
Many Thanks,
Zaiku Group