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 Hello internet visitor. I don't know how you found this page, but welcome! My name is Andrew. These are my notes.
A backstory: So the provenance of these notes dates back to the ninetees. Back then, notes were taken with paper + pencils, which was a big improvement from the clay
tablets + stylus my parents used. Still, pencil and paper notes have limitations: it's hard to insert new material and make corrections. But typing equations into
Word wasn't so efficient either. During the naughties, when I was in grad school, I ran across MathType (give me a discount MathType execs), which significantly expedited
the process. So I started taking notes on the computer and slowly transcribing ones I'd already taken. When I got my PhD in 2009, and started teaching, I, like
everyone else who has ever taught a course, found myself discontented with the way it was presented in the book, flattered myself that I could do it better, and decided to
construct my own lecture notes. It started with the first classes I taught, namely the Introductory Physics sequence, and then continued with Classical Mechanics and
Quantum Mechanics when I taught those courses. So these physics notes now cover pretty much the gamut of 'basic' physics: Introductory Physics, Classical Mechanics,
Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics, and Condensed Matter. But it didn't stop there.
I decided to add some eclectic math topics too. Most of those notes pertain to what I had to learn for my research. And then, as I was studying machine learning,
I added notes on both the theory and the practical coding aspects. The coding notes are actually all in power point. It seemed easiest to reference them that way.
Last thing, for each subject, I made a 'very' rudimentary power point file summarizing all of the major results therein, to expedite reviewing the material,
should I/you wish.
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