I might be scarred because, at least in my memory, my undergrad QM course was *nothing but* matching wave functions at boundaries of potentials. I presume other material was covered, but I have no recollection. I hope my unpleasant associations with the material aren't too obvious to the students.

You end up with a transcendental equation that can't be solved analytically, but just by drawing pictures and thinking you can say a lot. There are a finite number of bound states, and that number is bigger as you increase the width or depth of the potential.

Back to #QM1 after time off for an exam. (Time off for me, I guess, not for the students.)

Today the juicy topic of solving the finite square well! We learned how to match ψ and dψ/dx at a discontinuity in the potential V(x), then set about doing so.

I suspect it could be good or bad depending on the person!

Oh we have! Jennifer's cassoulet is famous.

Can't believe I've never heard that one before.

Andrew, who is a contemporary of mine in the theoretical-cosmologist game, has a new book out, The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

McCain is just not fully back yet from
the knee. He’ll get there.

Stuck pretty close to Daniel Boulud’s recipe, available online. It was amazing. (You just have to sacrifice a couple of bottles of wine to the cause.)

I would be jealous except @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social made coq au vin, so I have no complaints.

bsky.app/profile/sixe...

Props to the Detroit Pistons, though. They’ve become a dangerous team. Just relentless.

Have you had Avgolemono? Greek lemon-chicken soup. Amazing (if you get it somewhere good, or make it yourself).

Great minds

Watford is who Ben Simmons was supposed to be.