That’s Some Board
I just saw A Serious Man, which stars a struggling mathematical physicist plagued from all sides in 1967 St. Louis Park (outside of Minneapolis). It really is a great movie and deserves viewing in its entirety, but I just had to put up this still from the trailer. There’s a better version without all the students in the film, but I couldn’t find a copy of that shot.
Click to massively embiggen. Bonus points if you can recognize everything.
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I recognise most of the physics,especially Maxwell’s equations [lower right] and the various quantum-mechanical models of electrons [top right and centre.]
Yes: that’s some board, though it looks a little too neat!
Presumably there’s an enormous stepladder just out of shot.
does he use a ladder to write at the top?
I don’t know, Jonathan. I never went to St. Olaf, even when I lived in MN.
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It seems that there are Hebrew letters in the middle of the chalkboard in that semi circular diagram. Is there actual mathematics that uses Hebrew lettering?
Well, I’m not sure what Prof. Gopnik was saying at that point, but the theory of transfinite numbers does use alefs and beths…
It looks like we’ve got the magnetic moment of a current loop, the energy of a Fermi sea, a fair bit of quantum angular momentum, solving the Schrödinger equation in a radial potential, some uncertainty relations, normalizing the ground-state wavefunction of the harmonic oscillator, effective potentials dependent on angular momentum quantum numbers, momentum as a 4-vector, the Lorentz force law, motion in crossed E- and B-fields, rewriting said Lorentz force law in terms of vector potentials, a space-time diagram, thermal wavelength for a gas and the Maxwell distribution, the quantization condition for the Bohr atom, electron-positron annihilation, a diagram of structures at different length scales and other stuff too fuzzy to make out.