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Lecture Notes

Introduction   updated 8/27/17
Wave Mechanics  updated 9/6/17
Time Evolution and Stationary States  updated 10/10/17
The Formalism of Quantum Mechanics updated 10/31/17
Quantum Mechanics in 3-d updated 12/7/17



What is a photon?

Just in case you want to get something closer to the real story. It really just involves some classical electromagnetic theory and the quantum theory of the harmonic oscillator.