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[Keith] the Complex Number is the ONE for you.
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Disclaimer:
This talk was prepared as a 20 minute research proposal
for my Ph.D. oral candidacy exam on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004.
Three committee members are atomic physicists each with over
25 years experience, two experimentalists and one theorist.
The fourth committee member is a high energy (particle)
experimentalist with similar longevity.
However, it has been modified to fit a general college
student/faculty science audience on Friday, February 20, 2004.
In that regard, I would like to point out the various
components of my education here at AU which were particularly useful.
Learn what you can, you never know what will be useful!
- Physics
- Quantum mechanics, Atomic physics, Laser ind. study, Relativity
- Research, labs, Theoretical mechanics, Elect. & Mag., Thermodynamics
- Basically: How and why things work.
- Chemistry
- Alkali metal properties/chemistry/safety
- Electronic structure of atoms, isotopes
- Statistics
- Precision, Accuracy, Least squares, distribution moments
- Gaussian, Maxwellian, Lorentzian=Cauchy distributions
- Voigt profile (convolution of Lorentzian with Gaussian)
- Computer Information Science
- Data collection hardware, Curve fitting software
- World-Wide Web (invented by High Energy Physicists!)
- Programming, operating systems, etc.
- Mathematics
- Foundation for above
- Riemann zeta-function (for g-2), Fourier transforms, etc.