First Day of Class

Today is the first day of the Quantum Mechanics II (QM II) course. It will be carry on during this semester for every Wednesday afternoon from 2pm until 4.45pm. I was so excited to attend this course since the lecture will be given by my supervisor. Plus also on how would he made quantum mechanics to be lovable. That is the first thing he did, when he first started his lecture. He said exactly

"this would be a very fun course. It contains the story of the love of my life which is quantum mechanics"

I do have a bit of uneasy on how I would perform in his class, but the way he gave lecture effected me even more.

As I imagined, the student who took this courses are mostly male students. The fact that I'm trying to be as early as possible to the class, so that I can sit in front was not working that well. I'm competing myself with a few other tough guys which also taller than myself. And in the end I only secure myself for the second row. Maybe next time I can try to squeeze more to get a better view.

Today's topic touched on the historical of quantum mechanics and later on trying to generate concepts from the classical mechanics towards quantum mechanics. This is by doing the most famous example such as the pendulum and harmonic oscillator. I can safely say that I enjoyed this first lecture and also understand most of the topic which have been discussed.

good luck...

Snow Shower & 20-Ten

Wish all readers out there a very happy 2010.

Here in Montreal, the beginning of the new year is welcomed by the whole day of snow showering. Until now, the snow still falling non-stop.

May this new year of 2010 give a healthy living and prosperous life to all of us.

cheers...

Google Docs

I've been told by my best partner that I should try this another interesting platform from Google, namely Google Docs. For people like myself who use mathematical symbols a lot. I mean really a lot. The famous word document such as LaTeX.is very powerful. For example, nowadays we can see that the transformation of using blogspot to wordpress for a blogger who need a friendly and fully integrated TeX medium (i.e. mathematical symbols) in the web has already been solved.

Now, with this features of Google Docs, we can make our quick or recall notes anytime without even using the LaTeX processor or medium to execute such file that we need. The best thing of Google Docs, is that for those who are used to LaTeX symbols or LaTeX documentation, the same ideas work very well in Google Docs. Plus also for those who doesn't really know about the LaTeX shortcut symbol, Google Docs had prepared an equation editor menu. So that as usual, one just need to just choose, click and insert the associated equation.

Thanks Google...

a new document

select the Equation editor on the insert menu

the TeX equation workbook

example of an output

Updates on Weather

Today is like the first coolest day since the beginning of the Winter. Though the day was so nice and sunny but the real feeling is not that nice. Before went out to school, I have myself all wrapped up from head to toe just to make sure that I can challenge this weather. :-)

N.B. the Feels Like is refer to how the outdoor air is expected to feel in degrees Celsius when actual temperature and wind are combined (see windchill).

Lately Transformed...

I just finished watching the transformer movie and I'm having a really good time. I mean the movie was great. Full of actions and the story lines are wonderful. But yes, I just watched the first transformer movie. Its kind of late since the second movie has been released this year. Thanks to CBC.ca local television to make this movie as one of the holidays movie.

During my childhood, I am a big fan of a transformer. But then, during that time, we enjoyed the cartoon versions. And after seeing this movie I know now why lots of viewers give credits to this piece. It's really cool...

The leader of Autobots, the Optimus Prime.

Decepticon's logo

What is today...

I am 29 years of age today and I had received so many wishes. Thanks to facebook.

I received a nice quote that reads

"we turn not older with years, but newer everyday"

Happy Birthday to me...

Redo and Redo

Up until this post is written, I had spent the whole morning and the afternoon working on the construction of the group multiplication related to the Stockwell transform. I am quite sure that I have work out the computational method in a right way. According to the journal I'd refer. But at the end my final answer was not correct.

The next piece of paper will mark the eight (rough) paper for the computation alone. And there's more to come.

Lets do it all over again...