A new introductory quantum mechanics curriculum

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kohnle, Antje ^a   Bozhinova, Inna ^a   Browne, Dan ^b   Everitt, Mark ^c   Fomins, Aleksejs ^a,d   Kok, Pieter ^e   Kulaitis, Gytis ^a   Prokopas, Martynas ^a   Raine, Derek ^f   Swinbank, Elizabeth ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

instructional computer use; quantum mechanics; simulations

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; E-LEARNING; INFORMATION THEORY; MECHANICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER USE; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTER USE; LEARNING AND TEACHINGS; LEARNING MATERIALS; ONLINE LEARNING; ONLINE TEACHING; SIMULATION; TEACHING MATERIALS; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

EID: 84891922032     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/35/1/015001     Document Type: Article

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