Made Complex Numbers mini video lesson This week I made my first mini video lesson! It came out well, which surprised me. It was really difficult, and took a couple takes – made even more challenging by my determination not to edit it with video software (as not to fall down the trap of spending hours getting it perfect). Although the mini lesson is not as comprehensive as my textbook section write-up, it’s a simple, visual overview of the topic. It is on the website here and in the Unit One: Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers Crash Course.
Made Complex Numbers mini video lesson This week I made my first mini video lesson! It came out well, which surprised me. It was really difficult, and took a couple takes – made even more challenging by my determination not to edit it with video software (as not to fall down the trap of spending hours getting it perfect). Although the mini lesson is not as comprehensive as my textbook section write-up, it’s a simple, visual overview of the topic. It is on the website here and in the Unit One: Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers Crash Course.
Made Complex Numbers mini video lesson This week I made my first mini video lesson! It came out well, which surprised me. It was really difficult, and took a couple takes – made even more challenging by my determination not to edit it with video software (as not to fall down the trap of spending hours getting it perfect). Although the mini lesson is not as comprehensive as my textbook section write-up, it’s a simple, visual overview of the topic. It is on the website here and in the Unit One: Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers Crash Course.
Completed 1.1: Introductions and 1.2: Complex Numbers I jumped right into content and tackled the first couple sub-units in my first unit, Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers Crash Course. The first sub-unit was just reading the prefaces to the main textbooks I’m using: The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Theory, Groups, and Representations. The second sub-unit, Complex Numbers, was the first content based one. I read through Chapter One of The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics, watched a video from an MIT quantum physics course, read a paper about the need for complex notes, and read through lecture notes for an Illinois physics course.
Created website This Friday we got access to our websites and a crash course on how to use it. After the lesson, I changed the theme of the website and added a header to personalize it and make it my own.
Wrote first blog posts After creating the website and completing the first two sub-units, I created my first blog posts: one for each sub unit. For the blog post on Complex Numbers, I wrote in the style of my final project (a textbook). To do this, I walked through what complex numbers were and why they were useful, and even created a couple of graphics, which was a lot of fun! The blog posts can be found below, as well as on the Unit One page, found on the right.
