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Please try to include the following

• main points understood, and expand them - what is your understanding of what the points were.
  • expand these points by including many of the details the class discussed.
• main points which are not clear. - describe what you have understood and what the remain questions surrounding the point(s).
  • Other classmates can step in and clarify the points, and expand them.
• How the main points fit with the big picture of QM. Or what is not clear about how today's points fit in in a big picture.
• wonderful tricks which were used in the lecture.
  

A few things to start:

Yuichi began the class by discussing how the 8 by 8 matrix method may be more useful when discussing perturbations not only just when the fine structure and Zeeman effects are proportional, but when one is more accurately described as a perturbation on the other.

We then split into small groups to discuss perturbation theory and clarify misunderstandings on the subject with other students.

At the end of class, Yuichi put special emphasis on a graph he drew relating the strength of the magnetic field applied with the value of j, l, and s.

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