Teaching
Natural Science Tripos Part IA: Physics
Wednesdays, Emmanuel House 9:
- 16:00-17:00: Ira, Sky, Stanley
- 17:00-18:00: Ethan, Isabelle, Avinash
- 18:00-19:00: Iris, Haya
Do 6 questions per week. Email scanned work as one file in .pdf format to jed.burkat@physics.org by Tuesday, 9PM.
Michaelmas Weeks 1-4: Dynamics: Problem Set | Additional Problems | Solutions
Michaelmas Weeks 5-8: Rotational Dynamics & Special Relativity: Problem Set | Solutions
Lent Weeks 1-4: Oscillating Systems: Problem Set | Additional Problems | Solutions
Lent Weeks 5-8: Waves and Quantum Waves: Problem Set | Solutions
Easter Weeks 1-4: Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields: Problem Set | Solutions
Resources you may find useful:
1st year Mathematics:
- Louis Lyons - All You Wanted to Know about Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask
- H. M. Schey - Div, Grad, Curl, and All That
Classical Mechanics & Relativity:
- David Morin - Introduction to Classical Mechanics
- Andrew Steane - Relativity Made Relatively Easy
Electromagnetism:
- David J. Griffiths - Introduction to Electrodynamics
Some very useful notes by Toby Adkins (borrowed from “the other place”):
- Mechanics and Special Relativity
- Electromagnetism, Optics and Circuits
- Complex Numbers, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
- Calculus, Vector Calculus and Waves
Mathematical Tripos Part II: Quantum Information and Computation
Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory:
Lent Week 3: Problem Set 1
Lent Week 5: Problem Set 2
Lent Week 7: Problem Set 3
Easter Week 1: Problem Set 4
Resources you may find useful:
Textbooks and Lecture Notes:
- Richard Jozsa - Quantum Information and Computation
- Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
- A. Ekert, T, Hosgood, A. Kay, C. Macchiavello - Introduction to Quantum Information Science
- Michael Walter - Symmetry and Quantum Information
More Advanced:
- John Watrous - The Theory of Quantum Information
- Michael M. Wolf - Lecture Notes
- Andrew M. Childs - Lecture Notes on Quantum Algorithms