Classical Background

This tutorials provide introductions to topics that are frequently not covered in a two-semester calculus-based physics course, but are important in the study of quantum mechanics.  (All tutorials files are PDF.)

Overview

Classical Probability

Energy Diagrams 1

Energy Diagrams 2

Instructors seeking materials at a level which is more advanced than these should consider Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics.

Supported by the National  Science Foundation under grant DUE 965288.