Day 2
We started today with a short meeting with the other interns and Joe in our usual meeting room upstairs. Joe gave us a calendar of our major deadlines and special events for the rest of the summer. I'm excited to go see one of the Wednesday presentations; they sound like fun (plus there's free pizza and popcorn).
After finishing our meeting upstairs Ronny and I went down to the lab to get started on our work for today. Cayla brought in some textbooks for us to look at to start learning the basics of optics and quantum physics. It took me at least half and hour to get through the first page of the chapter on the Schrodinger equation but after that the rest of the chapter was pretty smooth, mostly just conceptual with some integrals that are used to determine the probability of finding a particle in any given region of space. Aside from that we worked on some more MatLab and started looking at some of the programs we will be using to process data once we start working on experiments with the laser.
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